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Bin Laden tape claims Moussaoui, Guantanamo prisoners had no role in Sept.11
Angela A. Onikepe
May 24, 2006 04:59:00 am

In a newly released five minute audio tape found on an Islamist website Tuesday, a man claiming to be Osama bin Laden said that convicted September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui [JURIST news...

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May 24, 2006 03:32:00 am

Former French president and author of the beleaguered European Constitution , Valery Giscard d'Estaing is calling for the EU constitution rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005 to...

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May 18, 2006 04:46:00 am

Human Rights Watch lauded Mexican President Vicente Fox Wednesday for advances made in increasing the transparency of the Mexican government, but warned in a new report on human rights in the country...

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Syrian authorities have arrested leading human rights lawyer Anwar al-Bunni just days after Sunday's arrest of prominent writer Michel Kilo , prompting speculation that a large government crackdown on dissidents is underway....

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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Wednesday lifted its stay of execution for Derrick S. O'Brien , citing insufficient factual or scientific evidence proving that lethal injection causes suffering and...

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ECJ says patients must be reimbursed for necessary surgery abroad
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In a decision that some observers have hailed as a victory for "health tourism", the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on Tuesday that domestic health service programs must pay for patients who go abroad to...

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US officials have dismissed a call from UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith to close the facility at Guantanamo Bay used to detain terror suspects, saying that the US is working to release...

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ICTY sentences Bosnian Croat militia leader to 12 years for war crimes
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May 9, 2006 05:01:00 am

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Monday sentenced former Bosnia Croat militia commander Ivica Rajic to twelve years in prison for leading an October 1993 attack against...

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Russia and China have expressed doubts about a draft UN Security Council resolution introduced Wednesday by France, Britain, and the United States. The resolution, invoking Chapter 7 of the UN Charter , mandates that Iran abandon uranium enrichment...

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U.S. and Japan sign Kanagwa Treaty

On March 31, 1854, U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry and representatives of the Japanese government signed the Convention of Kanagawa. The terms of the treaty marked the end of Japan's 500 years of self-imposed isolation by opening of the Ports of Shimoda and Hakodate. Four years later, Japanese-American relations were further expanded by the Treaty of Amity and Commerce (Harris Treaty), which opened more Japanese ports to U.S. trade and set up a system of extraterritoriality for Americans in Japan.

Spanish royal decree ordered expulsion of Jews

On March 31, 1492, King Ferdinand of Spain signed a decree expelling Jews from his kingdom.

Read a contemporary account of the explusion, originally written in Hebrew by an Italian Jew in 1495.

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