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News Opposition protests continue in Ukraine after electoral reform failure
Opposition protests continue in Ukraine after electoral reform failure
Alexandria Samuel
December 5, 2004 07:35:00 pm

Supporters of Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko maintained their siege of government buildings on Sunday. Yuschenko has encouraged supporters to keep up the pressure until President Leonid Kuchma fires Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and electoral reforms are approved to...

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News Federal judge denies recount request in Washington
Federal judge denies recount request in Washington
Alexandria Samuel
November 21, 2004 08:27:00 pm

A US District Court judge refused Sunday to issue a temporary restraining order barring the hand-counting of ballots in the recount of Washington's governor's race. The lawsuit, filed Saturday by the Washington State Republican Party, asked the court to...

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News International creditors cancel most of Iraq debt
International creditors cancel most of Iraq debt
Alexandria Samuel
November 21, 2004 07:51:00 pm

Members of the Paris Club agreed Sunday to write-off $31 billion in Iraqi debt. All 19 members of the multinational group of creditor countries, which include France, Germany and the US, agreed to eliminate 80% of Iraq's $39 billion...

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News African Union calls for immediate arms embargo in Cote d’Ivoire
African Union calls for immediate arms embargo in Cote d’Ivoire
Alexandria Samuel
November 14, 2004 07:37:00 pm

African Union leaders meeting in Nigeria Sunday called for an immediate UN arms embargo against the warring government and rebels in Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). The current UN Security Council embargo proposal, scheduled for a vote on Monday, imposes...

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News Iran, Britain, France and Germany reach preliminary nuclear agreement
Iran, Britain, France and Germany reach preliminary nuclear agreement
Alexandria Samuel
November 7, 2004 08:16:00 pm

Iran, Britain, France and Germany reached a preliminary agreement in Paris Sunday on Iran's use of nuclear technology. Details of the agreement were not revealed, but an Iranian negotiator says "fundamental principals had been agreed ." While Iran denies...

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News Macedonia clears way for minority rights after repeal referendum fails
Macedonia clears way for minority rights after repeal referendum fails
Alexandria Samuel
November 7, 2004 07:27:00 pm

A referendum in Macedonia designed to block a law that gave its Albanian minority greater rights has failed due to a low turnout. The law, already passed by the Macedonian parliament, redraws local boundaries in the former Yugoslav Republic,...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Bank of England granted political independence

On May 6, 1997, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced that the Bank of England would be granted political independence for the first time in the three-hundred year history of the Bank. This policy was statutized in the subsequent Bank of England Act of 1998 gave the Bank independent control of British monetary policy effective June 1, 1998. Read the Bank of England Act of 1998.

Chinese Exclusion Act barred Chinese laborers from US

On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States and prohibiting courts from bestowing US citizenship on Chinese. Connecticut Senator Joseph Hawley spoke out against the Act in these words: Let the proposed statue be read 100 years hence, dug out of the dust of ages and forgotten as it will be except for a line of sneer by some historian, and ask the young man not well read in the history of this country what was the reason for excluding these men and he would not be able to find it in the law. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and its successors were abolished in 1943 at the insistence of President Franklin Roosevelt.

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