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News US Senator files lawsuit over health care provision
US Senator files lawsuit over health care provision
Cynthia Miley
January 6, 2014 03:34:39 pm

US Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) filed a lawsuit Monday against the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin attempting to block the federal...

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News UN rights chief welcomes Nepal court ruling rejecting amnesty
UN rights chief welcomes Nepal court ruling rejecting amnesty
Cynthia Miley
January 6, 2014 02:19:44 pm

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday welcomed last week's decision by Nepal's top refusing to grant amnesty for serious human rights violations committed during Nepal's civil war. Pillay declared...

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News Uruguay president signs bill legalizing production and sale of marijuana
Uruguay president signs bill legalizing production and sale of marijuana
Cynthia Miley
December 25, 2013 07:20:06 am

Uruguayan President Jose Mujica has signed into law a controversial plan to oversee the production and sale of marijuana in Uruguay. The Uruguayan Senate passed the measure to legalize the production, sale and...

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News Federal judge rules proof of direct causation unnecessary for BP oil spill claimants
Federal judge rules proof of direct causation unnecessary for BP oil spill claimants
Cynthia Miley
December 25, 2013 06:32:39 am

US District Judge Carl Barbier for the US District Court Eastern District of Louisiana ruled on Tuesday that BP could not require businesses to provide proof their economic losses were directly caused by...

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News Abu Qatada pleads not guilty to terrorism charges
Abu Qatada pleads not guilty to terrorism charges
Cynthia Miley
December 10, 2013 10:45:44 am

Radical cleric Abu Qatada pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges in a Jordanian court on Tuesday and challenged the court's authority to try him under the terms of his deportation from Britain...

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AI files lawsuit against UK surveillance program
Cynthia Miley
December 10, 2013 09:33:08 am

Amnesty International (AI) announced on Monday that it has filed a complaint against the UK government over concerns that the country's intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) unlawfully accessed AI's communications. Following disclosures...

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News Pakistan military produces several disappeared prisoners after Supreme Court order
Pakistan military produces several disappeared prisoners after Supreme Court order
Cynthia Miley
December 8, 2013 02:48:32 pm

Pakistan's military partially complied with a Supreme Court ruling on Saturday by producing before the court several prisoners out of the hundreds it has been secretly holding without charges. Human rights lawyers and relatives of the prisoners...

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News UN: Afghanistan government reponse to violence against women inadequate
UN: Afghanistan government reponse to violence against women inadequate
Cynthia Miley
December 8, 2013 01:58:46 pm

The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report Sunday stating that although there was an increase of reported acts of violence...

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News Children suffer trauma from Syrian war: UN rights experts
Children suffer trauma from Syrian war: UN rights experts
Cynthia Miley
November 29, 2013 10:17:21 am

A UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) issued a 60-page multimedia report on Friday that Syrian refugee children are suffering trauma from the Syrian Civil War , which has killed over 120,000 people. The report states...

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Iraq police locate 18 bodies of suspected al Qaeda victims
Cynthia Miley
November 29, 2013 10:00:36 am

Iraqi police forces on Friday alleged al Qaeda is responsible for the bodies of 18 men found who had been abducted and shot in the head. The victims were taken from their houses early...

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South Africa born

On May 31, 1910, the Union of South Africa was created. Exactly fifty-one years later in 1961, the Republic of South Africa was born. Learn more about the history of South Africa from the country's government.

Tulsa race riot began

On May 31, 1921, the Tulsa race riot was touched off after a black elevator operator was alleged to have attacked a white woman in an elevator in downtown Tulsa. Armed whites attacked, burned and looted the local black business community of Greenwood in violence that killed more than 300 people and destroyed more than 1200 homes. Learn more about the Tulsa race riot. A special commission set up by the Oklahoma legislature decades afterward submitted this report [PDF] on the riot in 2001.

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