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News Haiti election council confirms fraud in presidential election
Haiti election council confirms fraud in presidential election
Alexis Unkovic
February 18, 2006 11:19:00 am

The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) in Haiti acknowledged for the first time Friday that the country's February 7 presidential election was tainted by fraud, just one day after awarding the...

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News Russian prosecutors probe cartoons republication as more die in world protests
Russian prosecutors probe cartoons republication as more die in world protests
Alexis Unkovic
February 18, 2006 10:49:00 am

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office announced Friday that it has begun an investigation of newspaper editor Anna Smirnova whose newspaper Nash Region reprinted controversial caricatures of Muhammad this week as...

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News Thailand PM announces constitutional referendum
Thailand PM announces constitutional referendum
Alexis Unkovic
February 11, 2006 12:09:00 pm

Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra announced Saturday that Thailand will hold a national referendum on whether to amend the nine-year-old Thai Constitution April 19 in conjunction with the country's next Senate election. Thaksin, who...

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News Bolton says US still concerned about Syrian interference in Hariri probe
Bolton says US still concerned about Syrian interference in Hariri probe
Alexis Unkovic
February 11, 2006 11:27:00 am

John Bolton , the US ambassador to the United Nations (UN) , said Friday that the US remains concerned about Syrian government interference with the UN probe into the February 2005 assassination...

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News French Muslims suing papers over cartoons as Danes pull endangered envoys
French Muslims suing papers over cartoons as Danes pull endangered envoys
Alexis Unkovic
February 11, 2006 11:00:00 am

The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) , an umbrella organisation of French Muslim groups, said Friday it will sue several French newspapers that republished controversial caricatures of Muhammad which were originally printed in...

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Iran to reconsider Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty adherence if pressed
Alexis Unkovic
February 11, 2006 10:57:00 am

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that Iran may reconsider its participation in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) but would not immediately withdraw from the pact. Speaking on the anniversary of...

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UN delegates close to completing disability rights treaty
Alexis Unkovic
February 4, 2006 12:08:00 pm

United Nations delegates working to draft the first-ever treaty to protect the rights of disabled individuals worldwide have nearly completed their task and resolved many issues of concern after a three-week drafting session [UN...

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IAEA reporting Iran to Security Council
Alexis Unkovic
February 4, 2006 11:28:00 am

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors voted Saturday to report Iran to the UN Security Council , supporting a resolution offered by Britain, France, and...

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Judge rules CIA contractor charged with detainee abuse can plead ‘following orders’
Alexis Unkovic
February 4, 2006 10:54:00 am

US District Judge Terrence Boyle from the US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina has ruled that David Passaro , the first US civilian charged with prisoner abuse of a terror...

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Intelligence Committee chair supports warrantless surveillance
Alexis Unkovic
February 4, 2006 10:09:00 am

Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) , the Republican chairman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee , Friday expressed his strong support for President Bush's controversial domestic surveillance program in a 19-page letter addressed...

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Supreme court overturns racially restrictive covenants

On May 3, 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that racially restrictive covenants violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, even covenants between private individuals. In Shelley v. Kraemer, the Court overturned a covenant among members of a neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri that restricted home sales to only white families.

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