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News Seven Nigerian politicians go on trial for corruption
Seven Nigerian politicians go on trial for corruption
David Shucosky
May 16, 2005 02:42:00 pm

The former Nigerian education minister, former senate leader, and five other Nigerian lawmakers went on trial for corruption Monday in the capital city of Abuja. Ex-Education Minister Fabian Osuji is accused of paying a $400,000 bribe to parliament in...

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News British doctors seek clarification of right-to-life ruling
British doctors seek clarification of right-to-life ruling
David Shucosky
May 16, 2005 02:30:00 pm

Britain's General Medical Council , the body that registers and regulates British doctors, went to court Monday to clarify a 2004 ruling on a patient's right to treatment. Leslie Burke , who suffers from a...

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News Jury selection begins in ex-professor’s terror trial
Jury selection begins in ex-professor’s terror trial
David Shucosky
May 16, 2005 11:56:00 am

Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of a former computer science professor and three others accused of funding a terrorist group responsible for a bombing in Israel. Sami Al-Arian is charged with...

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News Russian oil magnate guilty on six counts at fraud trial
Russian oil magnate guilty on six counts at fraud trial
David Shucosky
May 16, 2005 10:33:00 am

Russian judges on Monday found oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky guilty on six counts in his trial for fraud in connection with his management of the YUKOS oil company . Reading of the verdict...

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News Indonesia upholds sentence for Bali bombings conspirator
Indonesia upholds sentence for Bali bombings conspirator
David Shucosky
May 16, 2005 09:32:00 am

An Indonesian appeals court has upheld a two-and-a-half year sentence for Abu Bakar Ba'asyir , convicted in March for conspiracy in the 2002 Bali bombings . The defense argued that the conviction wasn't based...

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Egypt denies torturing US terror suspects
David Shucosky
May 16, 2005 09:07:00 am

Egypt Sunday denied a recent Human Rights Watch report accusing it of torturing terror suspects transferred there by the US. The organization had accused Egypt of torturing prisoners which it said were transferred...

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Rice calls for more Sunni involvement in Iraq constitutional process
David Shucosky
May 16, 2005 08:52:00 am

On a visit to Iraq Sunday Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged the Shiite- and Kurd-dominated government to involve the Sunni Arabs - estimated to make up anywhere from 20% to over 50% of...

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Pope Benedict XVI officially installed
David Shucosky
April 24, 2005 10:57:00 am

Pope Benedict XVI was officially installed as the 265th head of the Catholic Church on Sunday, receiving the symbolic pallium and the Ring of the Fisherman , and celebrating...

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Syria signs UN treaty against terror funding
David Shucosky
April 24, 2005 10:46:00 am

Syria, listed by the US since 1979 as a state sponsor of terrorism, has signed on to a UN treaty designed to block funding of terrorist activities, according to a UN official speaking Sunday. Syria becomes the...

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European leaders urge hesitant France to adopt EU constitution
David Shucosky
April 24, 2005 10:18:00 am

Four current leaders and a former European Commission president have this weekend urged French voters to adopt the new European constitution in a May 29 referendum, warning that rejection could have dire...

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Dutch East India Company established

On March 20, 1602, the States-General of the Netherlands established the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The creation edict granted VOC a monopoly over Dutch colonial activities in Asia for twenty-one years. During that time, VOC became the world's first multinational company and the first to issue stock. Read a history of the VOC and view the world's oldest share of stock, as issued by the VOC.

First woman executed by electric chair

On March 20, 1899, Martha Place, convicted of the murder of her stepdaughter, became the first woman to die in the electric chair. The execution was carried out at New York's Auburn Prison.

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