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News International brief ~ AU summit opens with controversy over Sudan chairmanship
International brief ~ AU summit opens with controversy over Sudan chairmanship
D. Wes Rist
January 23, 2006 06:09:00 am

Leading Monday's international brief, the 2006 African Union summit opened Monday in Khartoum, Sudan, with a sharp controversy over the potential chairmanship of the organization by a regime accused of directly contributing to over 300,000 deaths and...

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News International brief ~ Legal NGO urges Nepal to revoke media law
International brief ~ Legal NGO urges Nepal to revoke media law
D. Wes Rist
December 14, 2005 05:20:00 am

Leading Wednesday's international brief, the International Commission of Jurists has issued a report urging the Nepal government to revoke the recently approved media ordinance as contrary to the Nepalese Constitution ...

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News International brief ~ Mubarak admits flaws in Egypt vote
International brief ~ Mubarak admits flaws in Egypt vote
D. Wes Rist
December 13, 2005 08:09:00 am

Leading Tuesday's international brief, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak admitted for the first time Tuesday that the recent month-long process of national voting for parliament seats and the Presidential office was flawed and should serve as a lesson...

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News Retired UK chief justice bemoans corporate litigation
Retired UK chief justice bemoans corporate litigation
D. Wes Rist
December 13, 2005 08:08:00 am

Retired chief justice for England and Wales Lord Woolf has criticized large-scale litigation by companies that often spend in excess of 100 million pounds on lawyers' fees. Woolf, a longtime proponent of mediation and alternative dispute...

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News Rights group accuses UK  of turning ‘blind eye’ to rendition flights
Rights group accuses UK of turning ‘blind eye’ to rendition flights
D. Wes Rist
December 13, 2005 08:06:00 am

UK-based human rights group Liberty has said that remarks by UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw that the US had not requested clearance for any flights relating to rendition only served to...

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News International brief ~ Rights group wants UN to sanction Sudan leaders for Darfur crimes
International brief ~ Rights group wants UN to sanction Sudan leaders for Darfur crimes
D. Wes Rist
December 12, 2005 06:09:00 am

Leading Monday's international brief, Human Rights Watch has called on the UN Security Council to sanction Sudanese President Omar El Bashir and other senior Sudanese government officials for complicity in crimes against humanity....

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News UK law lords rule against use of torture evidence
UK law lords rule against use of torture evidence
D. Wes Rist
December 8, 2005 07:09:00 am

The UK House of Lords , the country's highest judicial body, ruled against the government Thursday in a case involving the use of evidence that may have been obtained through torture. The ruling prohibits the UK courts,...

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News EU parliament parties back data retention bill
EU parliament parties back data retention bill
D. Wes Rist
December 8, 2005 06:23:00 am

The two largest political parties in the European Parliament have agreed to support a draft bill designed to require all European-based telecommunications companies to store records of phone and email users for up to 24 months...

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News Rice criticizes Russian NGO bill on Ukraine stopover
Rice criticizes Russian NGO bill on Ukraine stopover
D. Wes Rist
December 8, 2005 05:05:00 am

A Russian bill designed to increase state control over non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by requiring them to register with a governmental commission has draw sharp criticism from US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as troubling...

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News US used 20 UK airports for ‘ghost flights’: newspaper
US used 20 UK airports for ‘ghost flights’: newspaper
D. Wes Rist
December 6, 2005 06:01:00 am

CIA-owned or operated planes made over 210 "ghost flights" through nearly 20 different British airports that may have been used to transport terror detainees being relocated as part of the US practice of extraordinary rendition, according...

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Iraq negotiated independence from Britain under treaty

On December 14, 1927, Iraqi and British officials agreed to a new treaty under which Britain would recognize the independence of Iraq and promised to support its admission into the League of Nations in 1932. In return, Iraq granted the British three new airbases in Iraq and agreed that British officers should train the Iraqi army. Learn more about Iraq's history with Britain.

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On December 14, 1819, Alabama was admitted to the United States of America as the twenty-second state. Read the Constitution of Alabama and learn more about the history of the state.

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