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News States file lawsuit over Trump admistration decision to eliminate DACA
States file lawsuit over Trump admistration decision to eliminate DACA
Jennifer Suder
September 6, 2017 03:16:09 pm

A group of 15 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the Trump administration's decision to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) program. DACA provides protection...

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News UN SG calls for Myanmar to grant legal status to minority Muslim group
UN SG calls for Myanmar to grant legal status to minority Muslim group
Erik Slobe
September 6, 2017 03:07:46 pm

UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on the government of Myanmar Tuesday to grant nationality, or at least legal status, to the Rohingya Muslim minority group that resides in the Rakhine State of Myanmar. Myanmar's security forces...

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News Republicans urge Supreme Court to put end to gerrymandering
Republicans urge Supreme Court to put end to gerrymandering
Lars Peterson
September 6, 2017 02:54:31 pm

A number of prominent Republicans on Monday and filed amicus briefs imploring the Supreme Court to end gerrymandering. The Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford on October 3. Prominent politicians who filed briefs...

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News EU court orders Slovakia and Hungary to accept asylum-seekers
EU court orders Slovakia and Hungary to accept asylum-seekers
Akira Tomlinson
September 6, 2017 12:34:55 pm

The European Court of Justice on Wednesday ruled that Slovakia and Hungary must host asylum seekers as a part of the EU migration policy . Slovakia and Hungary filed a complaint arguing that it was...

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News Federal appeals court allows implementation of Texas voter ID law
Federal appeals court allows implementation of Texas voter ID law
Akira Tomlinson
September 6, 2017 12:11:33 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday stayed an injunction that had blocked the Texas voter ID law , allowing its implementation. The injunction was put in place ...

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HRW: China systemically oppressing critics of human rights abuse
Lawrenz Fares
September 6, 2017 10:11:25 am

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday condemned both China's oppression of critics of the nation's human rights record and the UN's failure to stop such conduct. The report alleges that, "China has worked consistently and often...

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News Trump campaign asks federal court to throw out Russian interference case
Trump campaign asks federal court to throw out Russian interference case
Lawrenz Fares
September 6, 2017 09:30:09 am

US President https://www.donaldjtrump.com/">Donald Trump's campaign attorney Michael Carvin filed a brief on Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia asking the court to dismiss a lawsuit that...

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News New York immigrant files early challenge to Trump administration decision to end DACA
New York immigrant files early challenge to Trump administration decision to end DACA
William Theisen
September 6, 2017 09:00:09 am

A 26-year-old Mexican immigrant in New York has amended his ongoing lawsuit against the US government to challenge the Trump administration's decision to end the Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program . Batalla Vidal, who initially...

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Kenya opposition candidate threatens to boycott re-vote
William Theisen
September 6, 2017 08:02:57 am

Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga , whose campaign against the incumbent president Uhuru Kenyatta was declared unsuccessful after a countrywide election last month by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Committee (IEBC) , has issued a statement...

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UN commission calls on Burundi to end ongoing human rights violations
Matthew Santiago
September 5, 2017 06:06:00 pm

The UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi reported on Monday that various crimes against humanity have been committed in the troubled country since investigations began in April 2015. In June the commission released evidence ...

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WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban

On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans. Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

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