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News Turkey voters approve referendum to increase presidential powers
Turkey voters approve referendum to increase presidential powers
Elizabeth Lowman
April 17, 2017 01:14:17 pm

Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan , announced a victory on Sunday after 51.5 percent of Turkish voters elected to expand presidential powers. However, his political opponents are demanding a recount as some of the ballots did...

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News US Treasury sanctions Iran prison company
US Treasury sanctions Iran prison company
Elizabeth Lowman
April 14, 2017 02:30:03 pm

The US Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced Thursday sanction against the Iranian prison company Tehran Prisons Organization and one of its senior officials, Sohrab Soleimani, for human rights abuses...

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News UN commissioner: stop transferring refugees to Hungary
UN commissioner: stop transferring refugees to Hungary
Elizabeth Lowman
April 10, 2017 02:49:14 pm

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a press release on Monday that all transfers of asylum-seekers from other EU states to Hungary should be suspended under the Dublin Regulation . The Dublin...

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News Advocacy group: Shell knew of bribes to Nigeria official
Advocacy group: Shell knew of bribes to Nigeria official
Elizabeth Lowman
April 10, 2017 01:18:25 pm

The anti-corruption group Global Witness (GW) said Monday that recently leaked emails reveal that Shell knowingly briber Nigerian officials so the company could access a Nigerian offshore oilfield. GW alleges Shell and its...

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News DOJ says it has paid terrorism victims over $800M
DOJ says it has paid terrorism victims over $800M
Elizabeth Lowman
April 7, 2017 12:08:37 pm

The US Department of Justice said in a press release on Thursday that it paid victims over $800 million from the U.S. Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund . The money has compensated...

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News Venezuela Supreme Court reverses ruling dissolving legislature after protests
Venezuela Supreme Court reverses ruling dissolving legislature after protests
Elizabeth Lowman
April 3, 2017 03:09:15 pm

Venezuela's Supreme Court of Justice reversed a prior ruling to take over the National Assembly on Sunday. The court effectively dissolved the legislature in its decision last Wednesday. The Supreme Court and Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro [official...

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News UN rights official: Australia treatment of aboriginal people ‘appalling’
UN rights official: Australia treatment of aboriginal people ‘appalling’
Elizabeth Lowman
April 3, 2017 01:55:46 pm

The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples , Victoria Tauli-Corpuz , said Monday she was appalled by the living conditions of Aboriginal Australians following her week-long visit to Australia. According to the...

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News Senate holds first hearing on Russia involvement in election
Senate holds first hearing on Russia involvement in election
Elizabeth Lowman
March 31, 2017 01:11:47 pm

The U.S. Senate on Thursday held its first hearing on Russian involvement in the 2016 election. Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) and Vice-Chairman Mark Warner of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence...

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News Justice Department appeals court injunction on travel ban
Justice Department appeals court injunction on travel ban
Elizabeth Lowman
March 31, 2017 12:52:25 pm

The US Department of Justice filed a notice on Thursday saying that it will appeal a Hawaii federal judge's order against President Donald Trump's revised travel ban . The judge converted...

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China court rules for Apple in patent case
Elizabeth Lowman
March 27, 2017 02:41:18 pm

The Beijing IP Court ruled on Monday that Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus do not infringe on patents held by the Shenzhen Baili Marketing Services Co., a Chinese manufacturer which is now "defunct." Baili alleged...

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Slave trade abolished in Britain

A British bill abolishing the slave trade became law on March 25, 1807.

Learn more about slavery and the slave trade in Britain.

Scottsboro Boys arrested

On March 25, 1931, nine black teenagers were arrested in Paint Rock, Alabama for allegedly raping two white women. Twelve days later, the young men were put on trial in the nearby town of Scottsboro. After numerous the proceedings culminated in two landmark decisions by the US Supreme Court, Powell v. Alabama and Norris v. Alabama. Ultimately, the death sentences issued by the jury were overturned, but the defendants were nonetheless sent to prison. The trials of the Scottsboro Boys have come to symbolize the role of race in the criminal justice system of the Jim Crow South. Read a history of the trials of the Scottsboro Boys, as composed by Law Professor Douglas O. Linder of the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law.

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