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News Australia asks US to speed up case against Guantanamo detainee
Australia asks US to speed up case against Guantanamo detainee
David Shucosky
March 27, 2005 11:02:00 am

Australian attorney general Philip Ruddock has asked the US to expedite proceedings against Australian detainee David Hicks , the only Australian still held at Guantanamo Bay. Hicks was captured in Afghanistan in...

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News DOD considering bolstering rights of detainees
DOD considering bolstering rights of detainees
David Shucosky
March 27, 2005 10:42:00 am

According to military and Bush administration officials, the US Department of Defense is considering substantial changes to the tribunal process at Guantanamo Bay for foreign terror suspects. The changes, designed in response to widespread criticism...

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News Bush returning to Washington in anticipation of Schiavo law
Bush returning to Washington in anticipation of Schiavo law
David Shucosky
March 20, 2005 11:18:00 am

President Bush juggled his weekend schedule to return to Washington Sunday to be ready to sign proposed legislation that would send Terri Schiavo's case to the federal courts . Previously, urgent legislation passed while the president...

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News Jordan sentences absent Zarqawi to 15 years for embassy bombing plot
Jordan sentences absent Zarqawi to 15 years for embassy bombing plot
David Shucosky
March 20, 2005 11:07:00 am

Jordan's state security court has sentenced Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to 15 years in prison in absentia for a plot to attack the country's embassy in Iraq. Zarqawi, designated the most-wanted man in Iraq {AP report]...

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News Wanted Bosnian Serb general to surrender
Wanted Bosnian Serb general to surrender
David Shucosky
March 20, 2005 10:46:00 am

Former Bosnian Serb general Vinko Pandurevic , wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for war crimes during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war, has agreed to surrender to the UN war crimes...

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News WHO anti-smoking treaty goes into effect
WHO anti-smoking treaty goes into effect
David Shucosky
February 27, 2005 11:41:00 am

A new World Health Organization-sponsored treaty aimed at preventing children from smoking and helping adults quit goes into effect Sunday , but its impact on the US remains to be seen. The Framework Convention on...

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News Saddam’s half-brother captured
Saddam’s half-brother captured
David Shucosky
February 27, 2005 11:26:00 am

Iraqi security forces say they have arrested Saddam Hussein's half-brother , the first top-level Baathist to be caught in a year. Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan was number 36 (6 of diamonds) on the list of 55 most-wanted Iraqis [USA...

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News Amnesty International founder dies
Amnesty International founder dies
David Shucosky
February 27, 2005 10:42:00 am

Peter Benenson , founder of the human rights group Amnesty International, died in Oxford, England on Friday after a long illness. He was 83 . Benenson set up Amnesty in response to a call for...

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News US bank to compensate Pinochet victims
US bank to compensate Pinochet victims
David Shucosky
February 27, 2005 10:30:00 am

Riggs National Bank has agreed to settle a Spanish lawsuit . Spanish courts and the US Justice Department...

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News Schiavo controversy could be settled this week
Schiavo controversy could be settled this week
David Shucosky
February 20, 2005 11:33:00 am

The legal battle over Terri Schiavo could wrap up this week if either Florida's 2nd District Court of Appeals or the Pinellas Circuit Court act to end appeals in the dispute over the fate of the brain-damaged...

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Netherlands becomes the first country to legalize same-sex marriage and euthanasia

On April 1, 2001, the Netherlands became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage. The nation then became the first country to legalize euthanasia on April 1, 2002.

First US wartime conscription law took effect

On April 1, 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, the first wartime conscription law passed in the United States went into effect. It included a clause allowing a person to pay $300 to avoid military service, a controversial "rich man's" exception that precipitated the July 1863 New York City Draft Riots. The riots, the worst in US history to that point, killed as many as 100 people and had to be quelled by troops, some of whom had recently fought at the Battle of Gettysburg. Learn more about the Draft Riots.

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