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News Bangladesh executes opposition leaders for war crimes
Bangladesh executes opposition leaders for war crimes
Alonso Diaz
November 23, 2015 12:16:17 pm

Two senior opposition leaders in Bangladesh on Sunday were executed for war crimes committed during the country's 1971 war of independence with Pakistan. One of the men, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, was sentenced for crimes that included murdering Bengali nationalists...

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President Obama orders an assessment of US military intelligence reports regarding IS
Jacqueline Jones
November 22, 2015 02:27:41 pm

President Obama, on Sunday, ordered an assessment of whether intelligence reports from US Central Command (Centcom) were changed by supervisory military personnel before formal submission to present a more optimistic picture of the American military campaign against...

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News Iran sentences US journalist to unspecified prison sentence
Iran sentences US journalist to unspecified prison sentence
Dominic Yobbi
November 22, 2015 01:51:58 pm

The Iranian state news service on Sunday announced the sentencing of a Washington Post journalist to an unspecified prison term after he was convicted on charges that include espionage. Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi, the spokesman for...

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UN: Climate Change Conference must be a turning point for climate laws
Jacqueline Jones
November 22, 2015 01:38:20 pm

Janos Pasztor, the UN Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change, on Friday, announced that the upcoming UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris on November 30th must serve as the turning point for climate law throughout the...

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News California narcotics detective arrested on bribery and drug charges
California narcotics detective arrested on bribery and drug charges
Dominic Yobbi
November 22, 2015 01:04:16 pm

Narcotics detective Damacio Diaz of the Bakersfield Police Department (BPD) in California was arrested on Friday on charges of bribery, drug trafficking, obstruction and filing false tax returns. The 16-count indictment, announced by...

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Appeals continue after provisions of DC gun possession law struck down
Bradley McAllister
November 21, 2015 02:43:35 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday heard oral argument in a challenge to a Federal judge's authority to issue a ruling that struck down modifications to firearm possession laws in...

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UN warns of misplaced suspicions regarding Muslim refugees and migrants
Bradley McAllister
November 21, 2015 02:11:47 pm

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed the UN General Assembly on Friday and cautioned the international community to avoid discrimination against Muslims, especially refugees and migrants entering Europe, as a result...

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Security Council adopts resolution to fight ISIL
Steven Wildberger
November 21, 2015 08:43:03 am

The United Nations Security Council on Friday unanimously adopted a new resolution calling on all member states to fight to eradicate the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) . Introduced...

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News Canada top court rules Alberta not required to enact laws in French
Canada top court rules Alberta not required to enact laws in French
Alexis Wheeler
November 20, 2015 02:39:57 pm

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Friday that the constitution does not require the Alberta legislature to enact laws in both French and English. French speakers, Gilles Caron and Pierre Boutet, challenged traffic tickets they were...

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Obama administration appeals immigration ruling to Supreme Court
Kasey Tuttle
November 20, 2015 02:05:56 pm

Lawyers for the Obama administration on Friday asked the US Supreme Court to uphold the president's changes to US immigration policy. Earlier this month the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ...

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Slave revolt leader Nat Turner arrested

US slave revolt leader Nat Turner was arrested in Virginia on October 30, 1831. Turner, inspired by a religious vision, led a rebellion in August of that year which resulted in the deaths of 55 white people, including the family who enslaved Turner. White mobs later killed between 36 and 102 Black people in retaliation for the attacks. After his October capture, Turner became one of 55 people to be executed by Virginia in connection with the rebellion. Learn more about Nat Turner and Turner's Rebellion.

Russians granted basic civil liberties

On October 30, 1905 [October 17 in the Julian Calendar], Tsar Nicholas II granted Russians basic civil liberties in the October Manifesto.

Roosevelt approves $1 billion in aid to WWII Allies under Lend-Lease Act

On October 30, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt approved $1 billion in wartime aid to the Allies under the Lend-Lease Act. America did not formally enter World War II until December of 1941, but the US Government nonetheless provided crucial aid to the Allied Powers from the passage of the Lend-Lease Act in March of 1941 through the end of the war. The Lend-Lease Agreement between the US and the UK was formalized the following year.

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