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News Rwanda local genocide justice in jeopardy if retaliatory killings continue: HRW
Rwanda local genocide justice in jeopardy if retaliatory killings continue: HRW
Holly Manges Jones
January 22, 2007 08:20:00 am

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Monday urged Rwandan judges and police to investigate and stop attacks on individuals administering or testifying in local tribunals known as Gacaca courts to bring those allegedly...

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News Czech PM urges simpler EU constitution
Czech PM urges simpler EU constitution
Holly Manges Jones
January 22, 2007 07:47:00 am

Czech Republic Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said Sunday that leaders in Prague are not on board with ratifying the European constitution in its current form, and do not plan to take part...

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News Mexican drug lord extraditions not result of US pressure: Mexico AG
Mexican drug lord extraditions not result of US pressure: Mexico AG
Holly Manges Jones
January 22, 2007 07:09:00 am

Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza said Sunday that his country's extradition of 15 alleged drug kingpins and major drug traffickers to the US was a "unilateral and sovereign" decision by the...

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News Iraq VP surprised by timing of Saddam co-defendant executions
Iraq VP surprised by timing of Saddam co-defendant executions
Holly Manges Jones
January 16, 2007 07:33:00 am

Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi said Tuesday that he was taken by surprise by the hangings Monday of former Saddam Hussein-era Revolutionary Court judge Awad Hamed al-Bandar and former Iraqi intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti...

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News Jury selection begins in Libby CIA leak trial
Jury selection begins in Libby CIA leak trial
Holly Manges Jones
January 16, 2007 07:13:00 am

Jury selection begins Tuesday in the CIA leak trial of former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and attorneys for both sides plan to ask potential jurors questions about their...

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News Kuwait royal family member gets death sentence for drug offenses
Kuwait royal family member gets death sentence for drug offenses
Holly Manges Jones
January 16, 2007 07:01:00 am

A court in Kuwait has sentenced to death a member of the country's ruling family for drug trafficking offenses, saying the defendant "deserved no mercy." It is unknown how closely Sheik Talal Nasser Al...

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News Moroccan journalist, editor convicted of insulting Islam
Moroccan journalist, editor convicted of insulting Islam
Holly Manges Jones
January 15, 2007 10:40:00 am

A Moroccan editor and journalist were both convicted Monday of insulting the Islamic religion in a 10-page article about religious jokes published in a Moroccan newspaper in early December. Journalist Sanaa al-Aji and Driss Ksikes, editor of...

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News Cheney defends government review of US domestic financial records
Cheney defends government review of US domestic financial records
Holly Manges Jones
January 15, 2007 09:57:00 am

US Vice President Dick Cheney Sunday defended the Pentagon and CIA's review of banking and credit records of hundreds of American citizens suspected of ties to terror groups, calling it a "perfectly legitimate activity" in...

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News Italian judge drops some tax fraud charges against Berlusconi
Italian judge drops some tax fraud charges against Berlusconi
Holly Manges Jones
January 15, 2007 09:31:00 am

An Italian judge has thrown out some tax fraud and false accounting charges against former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi because the statute of limitations has expired. Berlusconi and co-defendant David Mills ...

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News Federal judge sentences NYC subway bomb plotter to 30 years in prison
Federal judge sentences NYC subway bomb plotter to 30 years in prison
Holly Manges Jones
January 9, 2007 08:09:00 am

A federal judge Monday sentenced a Pakistani man to 30 years in prison after he was convicted of conspiring to bomb a New York City subway station in retaliation for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu...

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President Reagan fired 11,000 striking air traffic controllers

On August 5, 1981, under orders from President Reagan, the federal government began firing air traffic controllers who had gone on strike two days previous for better pay, hours and working conditions. Learn more about the PATCO air traffic control strike. Listen to an excerpt of an August 3, 1981 speech by President Reagan (courtesy of the History Channel) emphasizing that the controllers had taken an oath not to strike against the government and threatening to terminate their jobs if they did not report for duty in 48 hours.

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On August 5, 1960, Burkina Faso gained independence from France. Read the constitution of Burkina Faso.

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