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News Former Guantanamo detainees returned to Afghanistan allege US abuse
Former Guantanamo detainees returned to Afghanistan allege US abuse
Gabriel Haboubi
October 12, 2006 06:51:00 pm

Sixteen Afghan men were reunited with their families Thursday after being released by the US military from four years of detention in Guantanamo Bay . The men denied links to Islamic terror groups and...

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News Nigerian VP charged with corruption
Nigerian VP charged with corruption
Gabriel Haboubi
October 10, 2006 09:19:00 pm

Nigerian Vice-President Atiku Abubakar was charged Tuesday with more than a dozen counts of corruption. The charges filed before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, a special corruption court that has the power to strip elected...

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News Ken Lay lawyers seek speedy erasure of criminal record
Ken Lay lawyers seek speedy erasure of criminal record
Gabriel Haboubi
October 10, 2006 07:28:00 pm

Lawyers representing the estate of former Enron chairman Ken Lay have filed papers asking US District Judge Sim Lake to rule on a nearly two-month-old request to...

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News House Ethics Committee issues subpoenas in page program misconduct probe
House Ethics Committee issues subpoenas in page program misconduct probe
Gabriel Haboubi
October 5, 2006 09:04:00 pm

The US House Ethics Committee Thursday opened its investigation into allegations of misconduct related to the House Page program , issuing nearly four dozen subpoenas for witnesses and documents, according to statements issued...

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News FTC pretexting charges against Virginia company settled
FTC pretexting charges against Virginia company settled
Gabriel Haboubi
October 5, 2006 07:14:00 pm

The Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday that it has reached an agreement for the settlement of pretexting charges against Virginia-based Integrity Security & Investigation Services . Current federal law allows the...

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News Red Cross makes first visit to detainees at expanded US Iraq facility
Red Cross makes first visit to detainees at expanded US Iraq facility
Gabriel Haboubi
October 3, 2006 07:45:00 pm

The International Committee of the Red Cross has completed its first meeting with prisoners now held by US forces at the expanded Camp Cropper prison in Iraq, according to a press release posted on...

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News Russia ratifies international nuclear anti-terror treaty
Russia ratifies international nuclear anti-terror treaty
Gabriel Haboubi
October 3, 2006 07:09:00 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill officially ratifying the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism , the Kremlin announced Tuesday. A Kremlin statement described the convention as "the first...

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Dutch leader Johan de Witt killed by mob

The Grand Pensionary of Holland, Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt were lynched on August 20, 1672, after an angry mob took the two from a prison, where Cornelis was being held on charges of treason, and killed them both. William of Orange (later William III of England & Scotland) became Stadtholder of Holland a month before the killings and remained in the position until his death in 1702. Learn more about Johan de Witt from the Rijksmuseum.

UN Security Council resolution condemned Israeli declaration of all Jerusalem as capital

On August 20, 1980, the UN Security Council passed by 14-0 a resolution condemning an Israeli declaration that all of Jerusalem is its capital. The US abstained.

Economic Opportunity Act signed into law

On August 20, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Economic Opportunity Act. The bill approved $1 billion for social programs to combat poverty. It was central to President Johnson's Great Society legislation program. Learn more about President Johnson's War on Poverty from NPR.

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