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News ICTR war crimes suspect pleads not guilty to genocide charges
ICTR war crimes suspect pleads not guilty to genocide charges
Deirdre Jurand
June 10, 2008 09:35:00 am

Rwandan genocide suspect Dominique Ntawukuriryayo pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of genocide, complicity in genocide, and direct and public incitement to genocide before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) . Ntawukuriryayo...

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News Myanmar junta releases political activists arrested at Suu Kyi demonstration
Myanmar junta releases political activists arrested at Suu Kyi demonstration
Deirdre Jurand
June 10, 2008 08:39:00 am

Fifteen members of Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD) were released from custody Monday, two weeks after their arrests at a demonstration in support of detained party leader Aung San Suu Kyi . The activists...

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News American Indian trust mismanagement case goes to trial
American Indian trust mismanagement case goes to trial
Deirdre Jurand
June 9, 2008 12:53:00 pm

The US District Court for the District of Columbia began hearings Monday in Cobell v. Kempthorne , a class-action suit brought in 1996 alleging US government mismanagement of trust funds for a group of...

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News Pentagon to double number of Guantanamo lawyers
Pentagon to double number of Guantanamo lawyers
Deirdre Jurand
June 9, 2008 11:39:00 am

The Pentagon has said that an additional 108 military lawyers and paralegals will be assigned to work on the cases of prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay , twice the current number. Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann...

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News Pakistan lawyers begin long march, call for reinstatement of judges
Pakistan lawyers begin long march, call for reinstatement of judges
Deirdre Jurand
June 9, 2008 08:54:00 am

Members of the Pakistan lawyers' movement Monday followed through on last month's promise to protest from city to city in a call for the restoration of judges ousted by President...

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News Sudan president refuses to turn over war crimes suspects wanted by ICC
Sudan president refuses to turn over war crimes suspects wanted by ICC
Deirdre Jurand
June 8, 2008 07:35:00 pm

The president of Sudan has refused to arrest or turn over two Sudanese war-crimes suspects wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) . The ICC issued arrest warrants in April 2007 for Minister for Humanitarian Affairs...

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News Musharraf faces renewed impeachment calls
Musharraf faces renewed impeachment calls
Deirdre Jurand
June 8, 2008 06:25:00 pm

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) officials released a "charge sheet" Sunday against Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf amid renewed calls from political leaders for his impeachment or outright resignation. The 10-point charge sheet details instances when...

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News Kosovo bus bomber sentenced to 40 years for ethnically-motivated murders
Kosovo bus bomber sentenced to 40 years for ethnically-motivated murders
Deirdre Jurand
June 6, 2008 02:25:00 pm

A panel of three international judges in the ethnically-divided town of Mitrovica sentenced an ethnic Albanian man Friday to 40 years in prison for a 2001 bus bombing that killed...

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News UK judge orders hearing on government documents sought by Guantanamo detainee
UK judge orders hearing on government documents sought by Guantanamo detainee
Deirdre Jurand
June 6, 2008 12:44:00 pm

A UK High Court judge has ordered an expedited hearing on whether the UK government must turn over documents allegedly showing that the last British resident detained at Guantanamo Bay was tortured. US...

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DHS investigator reopens Arar rendition probe
Deirdre Jurand
June 6, 2008 11:41:00 am

The Department of Homeland Security's internal investigations department has reopened an investigation into the extraordinary rendition of Canadian engineer Maher Arar , DHS Inspector General Richard Skinner told a congressional...

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Treaty with Russia ceded Alaska to the United States

On March 30, 1867, the US and Russia signed a treaty ceding Alaska to the United States for a payment of $7,200,000 in gold.

Review the terms of a Treaty concerning the Cession of the Russian Possessions in North America by his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias to the United States of America, the terms of which were included in the Treaty's Proclamation by President Andrew Johnson on June 20, 1867.

Treaty of Paris ends Crimean War

On March 30, 1856, representatives of Great Britain, France, Sardinia, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire signed the Treaty of Paris of 1856, ending the Crimean War. The treaty confirmed Russia's loss of power and territory a result of the war. The Black Sea region and some Russian islands were demilitarized, and Russia lost its influence over Romanian principalities and Christians in the Ottoman Empire under the terms of the treaty.

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