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News Iraq closes borders to non-Iraqi Arabs in run-up to Dec. 15 elections
Iraq closes borders to non-Iraqi Arabs in run-up to Dec. 15 elections
David Shucosky
December 2, 2005 10:31:00 am

Iraqi officials announced on Friday that non-Iraqi Arabs will not be allowed to enter the country as a security measure leading up to the December 15 elections . No end date for the prohibition was set. The...

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News DOJ memo shows Texas redistricting plan initially rejected
DOJ memo shows Texas redistricting plan initially rejected
David Shucosky
December 2, 2005 10:05:00 am

A newly-disclosed memo reveals that US Department of Justice staff initially opposed a controversial 2003 Texas redistricting plan as violative of the Voting Rights Act , concluding that Texas "has not met its burden...

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News US defends treatment of suicidal Guantanamo detainee
US defends treatment of suicidal Guantanamo detainee
David Shucosky
November 18, 2005 11:50:00 am

Government lawyers have defended US treatment of a suicidal Guantanamo Bay detainee in court papers filed this week, claiming that he is receiving appropriate mental health care and otherwise being treated humanely. Jumah Dossari [Amnesty International...

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News First corruption arrest made in connection with Katrina cleanup
First corruption arrest made in connection with Katrina cleanup
David Shucosky
November 18, 2005 11:40:00 am

Federal prosecutors have charged an official of St. Tammany Parish with accepting kickbacks to arrange a debris-removal contract as part of the Hurricane Katrina cleanup. St. Tammany Parish Council member Joseph Impastato...

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News Former French UN ambassador admits taking oil-for-food bribes
Former French UN ambassador admits taking oil-for-food bribes
David Shucosky
November 18, 2005 10:12:00 am

Former French UN ambassador Jean-Bernard Merimee has admitted to a French judge that he accepted $156,000 in connection with the now-defunct UN Oil-for-Food program . Merimee received the money by way of oil...

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News Ugandan rebels appear in military court; US urges fair trial
Ugandan rebels appear in military court; US urges fair trial
David Shucosky
November 18, 2005 10:03:00 am

Kizza Besigye , the president of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change party, appeared in a military court in Uganda on Friday along with 18 others on charges of treason . Besigye is the...

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News Talabani assures rights for Christians under Iraq charter in meeting with Pope
Talabani assures rights for Christians under Iraq charter in meeting with Pope
David Shucosky
November 11, 2005 11:23:00 am

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani met with Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican on Thursday, assuring him that new Iraqi constitution will respect the rights of Christians. The Vatican was...

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News Hate crime prosecutions up almost one-third in UK
Hate crime prosecutions up almost one-third in UK
David Shucosky
November 11, 2005 10:51:00 am

The Crown Prosecution Service released a report on Friday that shows prosecutions for hate crimes during April 2004 to March 2005 up 29 percent over the previous year . A record 4,660 people were...

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News PM says Australian anti-terror proposals won’t limit press freedoms
PM says Australian anti-terror proposals won’t limit press freedoms
David Shucosky
November 11, 2005 10:33:00 am

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has denied complaints that controversial new anti-terrorism proposals were "authoritarian" and would limit freedom of the press. Part of the plan includes allowing a 7-year prison sentence...

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News Robertson says PA town ousting intelligent design school board spurned God
Robertson says PA town ousting intelligent design school board spurned God
David Shucosky
November 11, 2005 10:09:00 am

Televangelist Pat Robertson told residents of Dover, Pennsylvania that they had "voted God out of your city" in local elections earlier this week by ousting eight school board members who had supported teaching intelligent design...

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Fyodor Dostoevsky sentenced to death

Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to death on November 16, 1849 over his involvement in the progressive Petrashevsky Circle of intellectuals. Dostoevsky and his codefendants were scheduled to be executed on December 22 of that year, but their execution was stayed by Tsar Nicholas I after the execution ritual had been carried out. Dostoevsky was sent to Siberia instead to serve a four-year sentence. Learn more about the mock execution of Dostoevsky.

Canada executed Metis leader for treason

On November 16, 1885, the Canadian government executed Metis leader Louis Riel for high treason in the wake of the "Northwest Rebellion" that had pitted the Metis (descendants of French traders and native tribes) in what is now Saskatchewan against Canadian troops. Although Riel has lately been rehabilitated as an Indigenous francophone patriot of the Canadian West, his trial and execution remain sore points between English and French Canada.

US President Nixon signs Trans-Alaska Pipeline Act

On November 16, 1973, US President Richard Nixon signed the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Act into law. In addition to creating an oil pipeline across the state, the Act also quashed all environmental-legal challenges regarding its construction.

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