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News Trial set for Parmalat execs facing fraud charges
Trial set for Parmalat execs facing fraud charges
Chris Buell
September 27, 2005 03:04:00 pm

The trial of 16 former Parmalat directors and executives, including the company's founder and former chairman Calisto Tanzi , is set to open in Milan Wednesday, nearly two years after massive accounting...

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Nepal government sets timetable for democratic elections
Chris Buell
September 22, 2005 08:51:00 am

After months of absolute rule by King Gyanendra , Nepal will move forward with local elections by April 2006 and national elections within two years, Nepalese Foreign Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey told...

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Judge denies arrest warrant for former Mexican president
Chris Buell
September 22, 2005 08:06:00 am

A Mexican judge on Wednesday refused to issue an arrest warrant for former President Luis Echeverria and seven other officials for a 1968 massacre of student protesters, ending a second attempt by prosecutors to bring...

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News Iraqi constitution could allow religious discrimination, Christian leaders warn
Iraqi constitution could allow religious discrimination, Christian leaders warn
Chris Buell
September 22, 2005 07:50:00 am

Christian leaders in Iraq have warned officials that the draft constitution "opens the door widely" to discrimination of religious minorities in the country. Patriarch Emmanuel III Delly of the Chaldeans met with...

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News Katrina leaves New Orleans justice system shaken
Katrina leaves New Orleans justice system shaken
Chris Buell
September 22, 2005 07:31:00 am

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina , local law enforcement and federal agents have expressed increasing concern over the damage the storm wreaked on the New Orleans justice system and how quickly it can recover. Among the...

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Lawyers request federal judge to oversee Gitmo hunger strike
Chris Buell
September 22, 2005 07:08:00 am

Expressing concern over the condition of Guantanamo Bay detainees participating in a hunger strike, attorneys for some of the detainees have told District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly that the detainees are in worse condition than the military...

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Annan urges nuclear test ban treaty ratification at UN conference
Chris Buell
September 21, 2005 08:36:00 pm

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday called on nations to quickly sign and ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty as he opened the fourth conference on bringing the treaty into force....

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Grand jury slams Philadelphia archdiocese for clergy abuse, but lays no charges
Chris Buell
September 21, 2005 08:07:00 pm

A grand jury in Philadelphia on Wednesday issued a 418-page report severely criticizing the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for alleged cover-ups of widespread clergy abuses in the Archdiocese over the course of decades, but handed...

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House OKs tax relief bill for Katrina victims
Chris Buell
September 21, 2005 07:59:00 pm

The US House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously approved H.R. 3768 , providing $6 billion in temporary tax relief aimed at helping people and organizations hit by Hurricane Katrina . In particular, the legislation...

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UPDATE ~ Specter says Pentagon obstructing "Able Danger" inquiry
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September 21, 2005 07:55:00 pm

US Senate Judiciary Chairman Sen. Arlen Specter said Wednesday that the US Defense Department was blocking an investigation by the Senate Judiciary Committee into a highly-classified Army intelligence program that allegedly identified four of the...

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US apologizes to Japanese-Americans for detention during WWII

US President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 into law on August 10, 1988, apologizing on behalf of the United States to Japanese-Americans who were interned in camps during WWII and providing $20,000 in compensation for each survivor. The law also provided $12,000 in compensation for each living displaced Aleutian Islander who was relocated to a camp in Alaska during the US's Aleutian Islands campaign.

President Reagan authorized compensation for Japanese-Americans interned during World War II

On August 10, 1988, US President Ronald Reagan signed a bill that provided payments of $20,000 to Japanese-Americans who were sent to internment camps by the US government during World War II. Learn more about the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which also included a formal apology by Congress for what it called a "grave injustice."

National Security Act Amendment reorganizes U.S. military

On August 10, 1949, the National Security Act Amendment was signed into law. It replaced the Department of War with the Department of Defense (DoD) and pulled all military service branches directly under the supervision of the DoD. Learn more about the National Security Act from the U.S. State Department.

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