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News Kenya leaders back creation of election violence tribunal
Kenya leaders back creation of election violence tribunal
Caitlin Price
December 18, 2008 01:09:00 pm

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and political rival Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Wednesday announced legislation establishing a commission tasked with investigating the political and ethnic violence that followed Kenya's disputed December 2007 presidential...

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News Pakistan bar rejects challenge to new chief justice but denounces emergency
Pakistan bar rejects challenge to new chief justice but denounces emergency
Caitlin Price
December 14, 2008 05:04:00 pm

The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) on Saturday voted down a challenge to the constitutionality of Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar's appointment, as Pakistani Law Minister Farooq H. Naek defended Dogar as the lawful chief justice. The PBC...

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News Rights group claims Congo military and rebel groups engaging in sexual warfare
Rights group claims Congo military and rebel groups engaging in sexual warfare
Caitlin Price
December 14, 2008 02:50:00 pm

Rape and sexual warfare have been employed by the national army of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as well as by rebel groups, according to an Amnesty International (AI) report released ...

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News Second Circuit rules embassy bombings suspect may be resentenced for terrorism
Second Circuit rules embassy bombings suspect may be resentenced for terrorism
Caitlin Price
December 3, 2008 07:14:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday that a suspected Osama bin Laden associate, imprisoned for 32 years after stabbing a prison guard while in custody, may be resentenced according to...

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News Bush signs executive order barring union rights for some federal workers
Bush signs executive order barring union rights for some federal workers
Caitlin Price
December 2, 2008 02:05:00 pm

US President George W. Bush issued an executive order on Monday that defined the primary objective of some 8600 federal agency employees to be national security-related, rendering them ineligible for Federal Labor-Management Relations Program [5 U.S.C. § 7101...

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News Nepal Supreme Court approves same-sex marriage
Nepal Supreme Court approves same-sex marriage
Caitlin Price
November 19, 2008 11:31:00 am

The Supreme Court of Nepal has directed the country's government to end sexual orientation-based discrimination and to extend equal rights to gender minorities, including same-sex marriage . The order, made Monday, came in a lawsuit...

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News ICJ takes Croatia genocide case against Serbia
ICJ takes Croatia genocide case against Serbia
Caitlin Price
November 19, 2008 10:00:00 am

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Tuesday ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear a case brought by Croatia accusing Serbia of genocide...

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News US soldier facing court-martial on murder charges in Iraqi detainee deaths
US soldier facing court-martial on murder charges in Iraqi detainee deaths
Caitlin Price
November 12, 2008 11:14:00 am

US Army Sgt. Michael Leahy Jr. will face a court-martial for his alleged role in the killings of four Iraqis in April 2007 , after waiving his right to an Article 32 hearing Wednesday. In...

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News Russia legislature expediting proposed amendments to extend presidential term
Russia legislature expediting proposed amendments to extend presidential term
Caitlin Price
November 12, 2008 10:01:00 am

Russian State Duma officials said Wednesday they would expedite consideration of constitutional amendments submitted by President Dmitry Medvedev that would extend presidential and parliamentary terms. The Duma's constitutional...

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Israel derides ‘discriminatory’ UN rights council
Caitlin Price
November 5, 2008 11:15:00 am

Israeli deputy permanent representative to the UN Daniel Carmon on Tuesday accused the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) of "targeting Israel in an obsessive and discriminatory fashion" and "fail to...

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On October 4, 1974, the trial of Watergate conspirators HR Haldeman, John Erlichman, John Mitchell, Robert Mardian, and Kenneth Parkinson began, Judge John Sirica presiding.

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