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News Rwanda top court to hear case on presidential term limits
Rwanda top court to hear case on presidential term limits
Matt Belenky
September 9, 2015 03:13:35 pm

Rwanda's Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a case challenging a change to the constitution that would allow President Paul Kagame to run for a third seven-year term. The effort to extend the term limit has...

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News Ukraine grants ICC wider jurisdiction to investigate war crimes
Ukraine grants ICC wider jurisdiction to investigate war crimes
Matt Belenky
September 9, 2015 02:25:04 pm

Ukrainian officials on Tuesday accepted International Criminal Court (ICC) jurisdiction over crimes that may have occurred since February of last year. Fighting and political clashes between Russian and Ukrainians loyalists after Russia's annexation...

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News UN rights office: Close to 8,000 killed in Eastern Ukraine
UN rights office: Close to 8,000 killed in Eastern Ukraine
Brittany Felder
September 9, 2015 12:14:04 pm

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported Tuesday that approximately 8,000 people have been killed in Eastern Ukraine since April of last year. Much of the killing has...

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News Guatemala ex-president detained pending corruption investigation
Guatemala ex-president detained pending corruption investigation
Brittany Felder
September 9, 2015 10:53:24 am

Former Guatemalan president Otto Pérez Molina , labeled a "flight risk," was jailed in a preventive prison pending investigation on Tuesday following an indictment over corruption charges. The judge gave the prosecution...

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News Baltimore reaches tentative $6.4 million settlement in Freddie Gray case
Baltimore reaches tentative $6.4 million settlement in Freddie Gray case
Dominic Yobbi
September 9, 2015 09:29:04 am

The city of Baltimore on Tuesday reached a tentative agreement with the family of Freddie Gray worth $6.4 million. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said the settlement will now be sent to the Baltimore Board of Estimates...

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News Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses released from jail
Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses released from jail
Dominic Yobbi
September 9, 2015 08:47:23 am

Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses due to personal beliefs, was released from jail on Tuesday. District Judge David Bunning of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky...

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ICC asks South Africa to explain failure to arrest Sudan president
Matt Belenky
September 9, 2015 07:39:37 am

The International Criminal Court has requested that South Africa provide an explanation for the country's failure to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir . As an ICC member, South Africa was required to arrest Bashir...

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UN rights chief condemns Azerbaijan ‘crackdown’ on dissent
Matt Belenky
September 9, 2015 06:43:29 am

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Tuesday condemned the recent "crackdown" on dissent in Azerbaijan, denouncing the imprisonment of journalist and human rights activist Khadija Ismayilova . In particular, Zeid...

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China court apologizes for wrongful convictions
Jacqueline Jones
September 8, 2015 01:44:41 pm

The People's High Court for the eastern Chinese province of Anhui on Monday publicly apologized to 19 people for their wrongful convictions. The court's apology appeared in a local paper, stating that the court wished to restore...

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Bangladesh high courts lifts ban on garment factory documentary
Jacqueline Jones
September 8, 2015 01:28:46 pm

The Supreme Court of Bangladesh on Sunday lifted a ban on the release of a documentary film that depicted the rescue of a woman 17-days after the 2013 garment factory disaster. The movie producer appealed ...

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Reichstag Fire Decree issued in Germany

On February 28, 1933, German President Paul von Hindenburg issued the Presidential Decree for the Protection of People and State in response to the burning of the Reichstag (the German Parliament building) on the previous day. More commonly known as the Reichstag Fire Decree, the law suspended many key civil liberties, such as free press, habeas corpus, and warrant requirements. Blaming Communists for the attack on the Reichstag, the Nazi party and newly-appointed Chancellor Adolf Hitler pressed the law through as a first step in establishing absolute control over Germany. On March 23, the German Parliament passed the Enabling Act, which empowered Adolf Hitler to become the dictator of Germany. Four months later on July 14, the Nazis solidified their control over Germany with the passage of the Law Against the Establishment of Parties eliminated all political parties in Germany other than the Nazi Party.

Congress ratified Manypenny Agreement on the Black Hills

On February 28, 1877, the US Congress ratified the Manypenny Agreement with the Lakota Sioux, under which the United States took control of 900,000 acres of the Black Hills. Read the ratification act, which includes the terms of the Agreement. The Lakota argue to this day that the agreement is illegal, was obtained by coercion associated with starvation, and that the Black Hills should be returned to them.

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