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UN rights chief calls on ICC to press prosecution of Darfur war crimes
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May 11, 2006 04:35:00 pm

UN Human Rights Commissioner Louise Arbour on Thursday called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) act more aggressively in prosecuting those suspected of war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region ...

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Pope Benedict on Thursday explicitly condemned same-sex marriage or any legal recognition of same-sex couples as Italy's new center-left government prepared to take office as early as next Wednesday. His statement echoed a speech...

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The UK High Court on Thursday ruled that a group of Indian Ocean islanders known as the Chagossians must be allowed to return to the group of islands from which they were exiled...

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A spokesman for the Administrative Office of the US Courts said Friday that creating an inspector general for the federal judiciary to investigate possible ethical violations by federal judges "would be a serious incursion into judicial independence"...

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In the latest legal assault on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act , conservative business organization the Free Enterprise Fund has asked former US solicitor general and Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr , former US assistant attorney general...

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Prosecutors in Serbia on Tuesday charged eight policemen for the killing of 48 Kosovar Albanians in the first weeks of the 1999 war in Kosovo . According to the indictment, the police officers are accused...

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A US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) spokesman said Tuesday that the agency would introduce new rules to speed up the immigration process and prevent serious delays, apparently sidestepping a threat of mass lawsuits from Arab rights...

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As part of a larger response to record high gasoline prices, President George W. Bush on Tuesday announced that the US Environmental Protection Agency would suspend certain rules governing the refining of gasoline. By avoiding...

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Accused Saudi Al Qaeda operative Jabran Said bin al Qahtani, a prisoner at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay , told a US military commission there Tuesday that the United States was an "enemy of God"...

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State prison administrators carried out the execution of Willie Brown, Jr. on Friday morning at the Central Prison in Raleigh, North Carolina. During the execution procedure Brown had a brain-wave monitor attached to him to...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Bank of England granted political independence

On May 6, 1997, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced that the Bank of England would be granted political independence for the first time in the three-hundred year history of the Bank. This policy was statutized in the subsequent Bank of England Act of 1998 gave the Bank independent control of British monetary policy effective June 1, 1998. Read the Bank of England Act of 1998.

Chinese Exclusion Act barred Chinese laborers from US

On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States and prohibiting courts from bestowing US citizenship on Chinese. Connecticut Senator Joseph Hawley spoke out against the Act in these words: Let the proposed statue be read 100 years hence, dug out of the dust of ages and forgotten as it will be except for a line of sneer by some historian, and ask the young man not well read in the history of this country what was the reason for excluding these men and he would not be able to find it in the law. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and its successors were abolished in 1943 at the insistence of President Franklin Roosevelt.

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