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News Bosnia authorities seize passports from relatives of war crimes fugitive Karadzic
Bosnia authorities seize passports from relatives of war crimes fugitive Karadzic
Benjamin Klein
January 10, 2008 06:28:00 pm

Bosnian authorities Thursday confiscated the travel documents of the wife, son, daughter and son-in-law of at-large war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic after High Representative and European Union Special Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina Miroslav...

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News Federal judge dismisses Spain claim over 2002 tanker oil spill
Federal judge dismisses Spain claim over 2002 tanker oil spill
Benjamin Klein
January 3, 2008 11:20:00 am

US District Judge Laura Swain Wednesday dismissed Spanish damage claims against the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), a non-profit organization that inspects and certifies ships, in connection with a major 2002 oil spill. Spain had filed suit...

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News Kenya attorney general calls for probe into alleged election fraud
Kenya attorney general calls for probe into alleged election fraud
Benjamin Klein
January 3, 2008 10:05:00 am

Kenyan Attorney General Amos Wako called Thursday for an independent investigation of the disputed reelection of President Mwai Kibaki amid continued violent protests. In a public statement carried in the Nairobi Daily Nation newspaper,...

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News Federal appeals court allows temporary block of Missouri funeral picketing law
Federal appeals court allows temporary block of Missouri funeral picketing law
Benjamin Klein
December 6, 2007 04:59:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Thursday that Shirley Phelps-Roper, a member of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church , is...

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Venezuela constitutional referendum sees low turnout: election observer
Benjamin Klein
December 2, 2007 04:55:00 pm

Venezuelans went to the polls on Sunday to vote on a controversial set of constitutional reforms proposed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez . The two-part referendum will determine the fate of 69 proposed constitutional amendments...

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US envoy presses Iraq to pass laws aiding ‘political reconciliation’
Benjamin Klein
December 2, 2007 02:58:00 pm

US Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte said Sunday at a news conference in Baghdad that Iraqi lawmakers must take advantage of what he called the "significant results" of the recent security surge and enact laws...

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News Ex-Pakistan PM Sharif returns from exile to contest elections under emergency
Ex-Pakistan PM Sharif returns from exile to contest elections under emergency
Benjamin Klein
November 25, 2007 04:54:00 pm

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif successfully returned to Pakistan after seven years in exile Sunday to lead his party in the upcoming parliamentary elections. He flew from Saudi Arabia...

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New Poland PM pledges to opt out of EU rights charter
Benjamin Klein
November 25, 2007 04:21:00 pm

New Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has told the Polish Parliament that his government will refuse to sign the European Charter of Fundamental Rights , part of the new EU Reform Treaty [JURIST...

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News Rwanda genocide tribunal to miss 2008 trials completion deadline: spokesman
Rwanda genocide tribunal to miss 2008 trials completion deadline: spokesman
Benjamin Klein
November 25, 2007 03:24:00 pm

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has officially indicated that it will be unable to complete its work before the expiration of its December 2008 mandate. ICTR spokesman Roland Amoussouga made the announcement at a press...

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Pakistan lawyers slam independent TV shutdown as assault on free speech
Benjamin Klein
November 18, 2007 04:48:00 pm

Pakistani bar leaders have expressed dismay at the shutdown of Geo-TV and another independent Pakistani television channel, declaring the closures an unconstitutional violation of free speech contrary to Article 19 of the now-suspended national charter...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Gorbachev becomes USSR leader

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. He soon announced that he would hold arms-reduction negotiations in Geneva with the United States. Gorbachev also used his tenure to liberalize the economy and social structure of the USSR, eventually leading to the abatement of the Soviet Union. In 1990, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Read documents and interviews from the 1990 USA-USSR Summit.

Confederate Constitution adopted

On March 11, 1861, seven former US states adopted the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, which closely followed the language, if not necessarily the purport, of the original US Constitution. Section 9 (4) of the Confederate Constitution read "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed," enshrining the right to own slaves as fundamental law.

ICC holds first meeting

The war crimes court known as the International Criminal Court (ICC) swore in its first batch of judges on March 11, 2003. The meeting took place eight months after the ratification of the court's Rome Statute. Then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said of the occasion: It has taken mankind many years to reach this moment. By the solemn undertaking they have given here in open court, these 11 men and seven women, representing all regions of the world and many different cultures and legal traditions, have made themselves the embodiment of our collective conscience. Learn more about the work of the ICC.  

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