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News Malaysia court charges suspected Somali pirates
Malaysia court charges suspected Somali pirates
Andrea Bottorff
February 11, 2011 12:22:43 pm

Seven suspected Somali pirates appeared Friday in Malaysian court charged with firearms offenses and, if convicted, they could face the death penalty. Malaysia is the first Asian country to take formal legal action against suspect pirates. Under...

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News Arizona governor countersues US government over immigration law
Arizona governor countersues US government over immigration law
Andrea Bottorff
February 11, 2011 10:38:08 am

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) announced Thursday that she and state Attorney General Tom Horne had filed a counterclaim in the US District Court for the District of Arizona against the...

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News UN rights chief calls for release of Egypt lawyers, journalists, activists
UN rights chief calls for release of Egypt lawyers, journalists, activists
Andrea Bottorff
February 4, 2011 09:20:58 am

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday called on Egyptian authorities to immediately release lawyers, journalists and human rights activists who have been arrested and for the government to investigate whether the...

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News France authorities arrest Srebrenica massacre suspect
France authorities arrest Srebrenica massacre suspect
Andrea Bottorff
February 1, 2011 02:49:50 pm

French authorities announced Tuesday the identity of a Serbian man arrested a day earlier and suspected of participating in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia, where a total of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed. Milorad Momic,...

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News Myanmar high court dismisses Suu Kyi appeal over party dissolution
Myanmar high court dismisses Suu Kyi appeal over party dissolution
Andrea Bottorff
January 28, 2011 10:36:45 am

The Myanmar Special Appellant Court dismissed an appeal Friday filed by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi challenging the government's dissolution of her National League of Democracy (NLD) . The dismissal effectively exhausts...

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News France court upholds same-sex marriage ban
France court upholds same-sex marriage ban
Andrea Bottorff
January 28, 2011 09:35:06 am

France's Constitutional Council on Friday ruled that the country's same-sex marriage ban does not violate the constitution . The council emphasized it may only interpret existing laws...

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News Federal judge sentences ex-Guantanamo detainee to life imprisonment
Federal judge sentences ex-Guantanamo detainee to life imprisonment
Andrea Bottorff
January 25, 2011 02:46:37 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday sentenced former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani to life imprisonment for his...

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News Supreme Court hears arguments on state secrets, personal jurisdiction, preclusion
Supreme Court hears arguments on state secrets, personal jurisdiction, preclusion
Andrea Bottorff
January 18, 2011 03:26:04 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in the consolidated cases of General Dynamics Corp. v. United States and The Boeing Company...

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News Kazakhstan parliament approves referendum to extend presidential term
Kazakhstan parliament approves referendum to extend presidential term
Andrea Bottorff
January 14, 2011 11:12:45 am

Both houses of the Kazakhstan Parliament Friday voted unanimously to amend the constitution to authorize a referendum that would extend the term of President Nursultan Nazarbayev to 2020, bypassing two presidential elections. The...

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News Federal judge dismisses request to end delay in issuance of drilling permits
Federal judge dismisses request to end delay in issuance of drilling permits
Andrea Bottorff
January 14, 2011 10:28:21 am

A federal judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Thursday dismissed a request by the Ensco Offshore Company to end an alleged delay in the issuance of drilling permits....

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First former Warsaw Pact countries join NATO

On March 12, 1999, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland became the first former members of the Warsaw Pact join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Read the NATO accession treaties for the Czech Republic, the Republic of Hungary, and the Republic of Poland.

Janet Reno sworn in as first female US Attorney General

On March 12, 1993, Janet Reno was sworn in as the first female US Attorney General. Learn more about Janet Reno from the US Department of Justice Attorney General's website as it stood on November 9, 2000.

Mahatma Gandhi begins Salt March

Indian independence advocate Mahatma Gandhi and 78 others began a 3.5-week-long march to the Arabian Sea on March 12, 1930 to defy monopolistic colonial laws prohibiting the collection of salt by Indians. The demonstration exemplified Gandhi's strategy of Satyagraha. The march ended with thousands joining in in other cities, Gandhi being briefly jailed and then granted a seat at the 1930-1932 India Round Table Conference in London. Learn more about the Salt March.

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