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News International brief ~ Turk president vetoes penal code provision on Koran teaching
International brief ~ Turk president vetoes penal code provision on Koran teaching
D. Wes Rist
June 3, 2005 03:35:00 pm

Leading Friday's international brief, Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer Friday vetoed a part of the new penal code {JURIST report] approved by the Turkish Parliament that would have lowered the penalty for anyone...

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News International brief ~ Mugabe orders halt to mass evictions and arrests
International brief ~ Mugabe orders halt to mass evictions and arrests
D. Wes Rist
June 2, 2005 05:19:00 pm

Leading Thursday's international brief, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has announced a halt to the current nationwide police crackdown against illegal and black market merchants and unauthorized dwellings that has allegedly resulted in the eviction and/or...

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News International brief ~ Sudan minister says aid workers should not have been arrested
International brief ~ Sudan minister says aid workers should not have been arrested
D. Wes Rist
June 1, 2005 02:56:00 pm

Leading Wednesday's international brief, Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said today that two Dutch international aid workers affiliated should not have been arrested for allegedly falsifying a report on rape in Darfur . Paul Foreman and Vince...

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News International brief ~ Ethiopia opposition files suit over elections
International brief ~ Ethiopia opposition files suit over elections
D. Wes Rist
May 31, 2005 04:33:00 pm

Leading Tuesday's international brief, the leading opposition party in Ethiopia has filed suit with local courts in the capital city of Addis Ababa seeking to prevent the official certification of the results of the disputed national...

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News EU leaders urge continued referendums on constitution after French setback
EU leaders urge continued referendums on constitution after French setback
D. Wes Rist
May 30, 2005 04:47:00 pm

Despite France's rejection of the EU constitution in Sunday's national referendum , EU leaders are calling on the 15 European nations that have not yet made a decision on the Constitution to continue with whatever decision-making process was...

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News Former Nepalese PM taking corruption control commission to high court
Former Nepalese PM taking corruption control commission to high court
D. Wes Rist
May 30, 2005 04:19:00 pm

Former Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and former Interior Minister Prakashman Singh said Monday they would bring the Royal Commission for Corruption Control before the Nepalese Supreme Court for pursuing an investigation of the...

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News AP: Documents detail Gitmo detainees’ claims of abuses and inaction
AP: Documents detail Gitmo detainees’ claims of abuses and inaction
D. Wes Rist
May 30, 2005 03:58:00 pm

The Associated Press reported Monday that a new batch of documents received by the press agency under a Freedom of Information Act suit describe multiple allegations of abuse of Guantanamo prisoners by US personnel and inaction by...

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News Sudan arrests MSF Dutch chairman for not naming sources in rape report
Sudan arrests MSF Dutch chairman for not naming sources in rape report
D. Wes Rist
May 30, 2005 03:45:00 pm

The State Crimes Prosecutor for Sudan has ordered the arrest of Paul Foreman, the head of the Dutch wing of Medecins San Frontieres who published a report in March entitled The Crushing Burden of Rape:...

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News Lebanon president criticizes electoral law after low turnout
Lebanon president criticizes electoral law after low turnout
D. Wes Rist
May 30, 2005 03:06:00 pm

Lebanese President Emile Lahoud criticized Lebanon's current electoral law Monday, saying that voter turnout of less than 27% in the first stage of parliamentary elections over the weekend was a clear demonstration of the Lebanese people were...

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News International brief ~ Zimbabwe to seize all private productive farmland
International brief ~ Zimbabwe to seize all private productive farmland
D. Wes Rist
May 27, 2005 12:49:00 pm

Leading Friday's international brief, a high-level source in the cabinet of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has told news agencies in Zimbabwe that the administration has decided to push forward legislation that would nationalize all private...

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France abolishes slavery

On February 4, 1794, the legislature of France abolished slavery throughout the territories of the French Republic. The practice was then reinstituted by Napoleon in 1804, before being banned permanently in 1814 after Bonaparte was exiled to Elba. As of 2001, slavery is defined as a "crime against humanity" by French law.

Civil rights activist Rosa Parks born

On February 4, 1913, late civil rights activist Rosa Parks—who became famous in 1956 for refusing to give up her seat to a white man and go to the back of a Montgomery Alabama bus—was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. Learn more about Rosa Parks.

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