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News Countrywide settles state lending practices suits for $8.4 billion
Countrywide settles state lending practices suits for $8.4 billion
Deirdre Jurand
October 6, 2008 09:22:00 am

Officials for Bank of America announced Monday that they have agreed to an $8.4 billion settlement in response to allegations by 11 state attorneys general that subsidiary Countrywide Financial engaged in deceptive business...

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News US military contractor claims immunity in seeking Abu Ghraib lawsuit dismissal
US military contractor claims immunity in seeking Abu Ghraib lawsuit dismissal
Deirdre Jurand
October 3, 2008 07:30:00 am

Lawyers for private US military contractor CACI International filed a motion Thursday to dismiss a torture lawsuit against the company based on a claim of immunity. In July, four former detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison [JURIST...

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News UN Security Council extends terms of ICTY judges to ensure trial completion
UN Security Council extends terms of ICTY judges to ensure trial completion
Deirdre Jurand
September 30, 2008 10:19:00 am

Members of the UN Security Council approved a resolution Monday to extend the terms of some judges serving on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to allow them to complete their assigned...

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News Ex-CIA official pleads guilty to wire fraud in defense contract corruption case
Ex-CIA official pleads guilty to wire fraud in defense contract corruption case
Deirdre Jurand
September 30, 2008 09:21:00 am

Former CIA executive director Kyle Foggo pleaded guilty Monday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to one count of wire fraud relating to charges that he...

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News Chile Supreme Court reduces sentences for men convicted of Pinochet-era killings
Chile Supreme Court reduces sentences for men convicted of Pinochet-era killings
Deirdre Jurand
September 29, 2008 09:44:00 am

Judges for the criminal division of the Supreme Court of Chile Friday reduced the sentences of two men convicted of the 1973 deaths of 15 Chilean farmers . A lower court had sentenced...

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News Myanmar junta to release more than 9,000 prisoners for good behavior
Myanmar junta to release more than 9,000 prisoners for good behavior
Deirdre Jurand
September 23, 2008 08:15:00 pm

Myanmar state media outlets announced Tuesday that the state's ruling junta released 9,002 prisoners for good behavior, including U Win Tin , a founder of Myanmar opposition group the National League for Democracy (NLD) and the...

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News South Africa president appeals allegations of judicial interference
South Africa president appeals allegations of judicial interference
Deirdre Jurand
September 23, 2008 02:02:00 pm

A spokesman for South African President Thabo Mbeki said Tuesday that Mbeki has challenged in the county's Constitutional Court allegations that he interfered with a case against Mbeki's political rival and current African...

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News Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to fall under Bank Holding Company Act controls
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to fall under Bank Holding Company Act controls
Deirdre Jurand
September 22, 2008 10:12:00 am

The Federal Reserve Board on Sunday preliminarily approved applications by independent investment banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to convert to bank holding companies, which would put the banks under Federal Reserve regulation, grant them...

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News South Africa president denies judicial interference during resignation speech
South Africa president denies judicial interference during resignation speech
Deirdre Jurand
September 22, 2008 09:13:00 am

South African President Thabo Mbeki insisted in an official resignation speech Sunday that allegations of his interference with the judiciary in the context of the Jacob Zuma case were incorrect. Top ANC officials called...

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News FBI report shows decrease in US violent crime
FBI report shows decrease in US violent crime
Deirdre Jurand
September 16, 2008 10:01:00 am

The 2007 Crime in the US (CIUS) report released Monday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) indicates that the level of violent crime in the US dropped by 0.7 percent between 2006 and...

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US and Japan sign Kanagwa Treaty

On March 31, 1854, US Commodore Matthew Perry and representatives of the Japanese government signed the Convention of Kanagawa. The terms of the treaty marked the end of Japan's 500 years of self-imposed isolation by opening the Ports of Shimoda and Hakodate. Four years later, Japanese-American relations were further expanded by the Treaty of Amity and Commerce (Harris Treaty), which opened more Japanese ports to US trade and set up a system of extraterritoriality for Americans in Japan.

Spanish royal decree ordered expulsion of Jews

On March 31, 1492, King Ferdinand of Spain signed a decree expelling Jews from his kingdom. Read a contemporary account of the expulsion, originally written in Hebrew by an Italian Jew in 1495.

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