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News Spain accepts third Guantanamo detainee
Spain accepts third Guantanamo detainee
Hillary Stemple
July 22, 2010 10:54:31 am

The Spanish Interior Ministry announced Thursday that the country has accepted its third Guantanamo Bay detainee. The man, an Afghan national, arrived in Spain on Wednesday and will...

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News Rights group ranks Burundi as most corrupt East-African country
Rights group ranks Burundi as most corrupt East-African country
Hillary Stemple
July 22, 2010 09:54:32 am

A report released Thursday by Transparency International (TI) named Burundi as the most corrupt East-African nation, with a corruption index of 36.7 percent. Also cited by TI for having high rates of corruption were Uganda, with...

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News Federal judge refuses to reinstate original drilling moratorium
Federal judge refuses to reinstate original drilling moratorium
Hillary Stemple
July 22, 2010 08:43:21 am

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Wednesday refused to reinstate a six-month drilling moratorium issued in May by the Obama administration in response to the BP Deepwater...

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News Germany court allows ongoing surveillance of left-wing political party
Germany court allows ongoing surveillance of left-wing political party
Hillary Stemple
July 21, 2010 03:32:47 pm

A German appeals court announced Wednesday that the government's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (OPC) will be permitted to continue surveillance of members of the country's Left political party. The...

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News Rights group calls for al-Bashir arrest during visit to Chad
Rights group calls for al-Bashir arrest during visit to Chad
Hillary Stemple
July 21, 2010 02:23:46 pm

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday urged the country of Chad to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir during his visit to the country. Al-Bashir was charged last week by the...

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News Obama signs financial reform legislation
Obama signs financial reform legislation
Hillary Stemple
July 21, 2010 12:36:22 pm

US President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed the Restoring Financial Stability Act into law. The legislation, which focuses on increasing regulation in the financial sector following the recent economic crisis ,...

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News BP facing lawsuit over handling of oil spill cleanup
BP facing lawsuit over handling of oil spill cleanup
Hillary Stemple
July 21, 2010 11:21:45 am

A lawsuit was filed Tuesday against BP in a Louisiana state court alleging that the company's negligent actions led to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and that BP was also negligent in...

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News Rights group urges ICC to probe Zimbabwe pre-election rights violations
Rights group urges ICC to probe Zimbabwe pre-election rights violations
Hillary Stemple
July 21, 2010 09:12:45 am

Human rights organization AIDS-Free World on Wednesday renewed calls for an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into allegations of rape and torture in Zimbabwe prior to the 2008 presidential elections ....

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News UN rights chief warns of continuing violations in Kyrgyzstan
UN rights chief warns of continuing violations in Kyrgyzstan
Hillary Stemple
July 20, 2010 03:11:17 pm

UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay Tuesday issued a warning about ongoing human rights violations in Kyrgyzstan following the recent ethnic violence in the country. According to Pillay, security forces in the southern...

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European rights court rejects appeal of Saddam chemical weapons supplier
Hillary Stemple
July 20, 2010 01:42:07 pm

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Tuesday rejected an appeal by a Dutch businessman convicted of selling chemicals used by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to create chemical weapons....

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THIS DAY @ LAW

US and Japan sign Kanagwa Treaty

On March 31, 1854, US Commodore Matthew Perry and representatives of the Japanese government signed the Convention of Kanagawa. The terms of the treaty marked the end of Japan's 500 years of self-imposed isolation by opening the Ports of Shimoda and Hakodate. Four years later, Japanese-American relations were further expanded by the Treaty of Amity and Commerce (Harris Treaty), which opened more Japanese ports to US trade and set up a system of extraterritoriality for Americans in Japan.

Spanish royal decree ordered expulsion of Jews

On March 31, 1492, King Ferdinand of Spain signed a decree expelling Jews from his kingdom. Read a contemporary account of the expulsion, originally written in Hebrew by an Italian Jew in 1495.

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