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News Supreme Court refuses stay of execution for Missouri death row inmate
Supreme Court refuses stay of execution for Missouri death row inmate
Julie Deisher-Edwards
February 11, 2015 01:36:07 pm

Missouri executed death row inmate Walter Storey early Wednesday morning after the US Supreme Court denied his requested stay of execution. Storey was convicted and sentenced to death for a 1990 murder. He...

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News Bangladesh opposition leader arrested for instigating arson
Bangladesh opposition leader arrested for instigating arson
Julie Deisher-Edwards
February 4, 2015 01:24:20 pm

The leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and former prime minister Khaleda Zia was charged along with 55 other people on Wednesday for instigating an arson attack on a bus. In...

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News Amnesty urges countries to support refugee programs for Syria expatriates
Amnesty urges countries to support refugee programs for Syria expatriates
Julie Deisher-Edwards
February 4, 2015 12:25:30 pm

Countries around the world must show public support to Syrian refugees through resettlement and other humanitarian admission programs said Amnesty International (AI) in a report Wednesday. The report highlights the humanitarian crisis faced by individuals...

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News ICTY upholds Bosnian Serb genocide convictions
ICTY upholds Bosnian Serb genocide convictions
Julie Deisher-Edwards
January 31, 2015 11:23:37 am

The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday upheld genocide convictions for Vujadin Popovic and Ljubisa Beara for crimes perpetrated by Bosnian Serb forces during the 1995 Srebrenica...

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News Egypt court bans Hamas armed group
Egypt court bans Hamas armed group
Julie Deisher-Edwards
January 31, 2015 09:41:32 am

The Cairo Appeals Court for Urgent Matters on Saturday banned and declared Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (Qassam Brigades) to be a terrorist group. Qassam Brigades is the armed branch of Hamas , which is itself an...

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News Amnesty calls for UN sanctions, ICC prosecutions in Libya
Amnesty calls for UN sanctions, ICC prosecutions in Libya
Julie Deisher-Edwards
January 28, 2015 01:48:57 pm

An Amnesty International (AI) report released Wednesday called on the UN Security Council to impose sanctions and encourage accountability through International Criminal Court (ICC) indictments and prosecutions to end the cycle of human...

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News Australia High Court rules high seas detention of asylum seekers lawful
Australia High Court rules high seas detention of asylum seekers lawful
Julie Deisher-Edwards
January 28, 2015 12:51:06 pm

The High Court of Australia on Wednesday ruled that the off-shore detention of more than 150 ethnic Tamil refugees aboard an Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) vessel was lawful under the Maritime...

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News Egypt court orders retrial for 152 Muslim Brotherhood supporters
Egypt court orders retrial for 152 Muslim Brotherhood supporters
Julie Deisher-Edwards
January 24, 2015 10:07:25 am

An Egyptian court on Saturday ordered a retrial for 152 Muslim Brotherhood supporters sentenced in a mass trial last year. Thirty-seven were sentenced to death, and 115 others were sentenced to life imprisonment for...

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News Supreme Court to review Oklahoma death penalty protocols
Supreme Court to review Oklahoma death penalty protocols
Julie Deisher-Edwards
January 24, 2015 09:43:42 am

The US Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari to determine whether Oklahoma's lethal injection protocol is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment . The case, Glossip v. Gross , originated when four death row inmates filed a...

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News Supreme Court hears arguments on housing discrimination, traffic stops
Supreme Court hears arguments on housing discrimination, traffic stops
Julie Deisher-Edwards
January 21, 2015 03:04:39 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases on Wednesday. In Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project , the Supreme Court heard arguments on whether discrimination...

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French June Rebellion ends

A republican uprising known as the June Rebellion was put down by French authorities in Paris on June 6, 1832. The rebels sought the abdication of French King Louis Philippe I, who assumed the throne two years prior following the overthrow of King Charles X. Louis Philippe would go on to rule until 1848 when he was overthrown in the wave of revolutions that took hold across Europe that year. Author Victor Hugo would later dramatize the June Rebellion in his novel Les Miserables Read excerpts of contemporary coverage about the June Rebellion from the Guardian.

Count Camillo di Cavour, the first Prime Minister of Italy, dies

On June 6, 1861, Count Camillo Benso di Cavour died He was the first Prime Minister of a united Italy and the political leader of his nation's unification movement. After Italian unification, Cavour was responsible for the creation of the Italian constitutional monarchy and its founding political documents.

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