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News UK High Court rules terror suspect asset freeze orders unlawful
UK High Court rules terror suspect asset freeze orders unlawful
Jaime Jansen
April 24, 2008 10:37:00 am

The High Court in London ruled Thursday that the British Treasury Department may not freeze the assets of suspected terrorists without going through Parliament first. Five UK terror suspects who had their assets frozen ...

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Rove accused of involvement in scheme to fire US Attorney: federal prosecutor
Jaime Jansen
April 24, 2008 09:45:00 am

Former White House advisor Karl Rove was allegedly involved in a 2004 scheme to have Chicago-based US Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald fired, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday. According to the prosecutor, a witness at the...

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News Trial of Saddam-era former Iraq deputy PM to begin next week
Trial of Saddam-era former Iraq deputy PM to begin next week
Jaime Jansen
April 24, 2008 09:11:00 am

The trial of former Saddam Hussein-era Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz and six others will begin next week, an Iraqi judicial official said Wednesday. The seven former officials face charges related to the 1992...

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Zimbabwe court rejects opposition request to block election recount
Jaime Jansen
April 18, 2008 11:10:00 am

A judge in Zimbabwe on Friday dismissed an attempt by opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai and his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to block a partial recount of Zimbabwe's March 29 elections . Official election...

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Senate directs DOJ to investigate highway spending earmark
Jaime Jansen
April 18, 2008 10:31:00 am

The US Senate voted 64-28 Thursday to direct the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to open an investigation into discrepancies between the 2005 Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act (SAFETEA-LU) as approved in...

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DOJ urges appeals court to overturn Vermont greenhouse gas emissions decision
Jaime Jansen
April 18, 2008 09:55:00 am

The Bush administration has asked the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to set aside a decision by a federal judge sitting in Vermont that allowed Vermont to regulate automotive greenhouse gas emissions....

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News New ICC registrar vows to make witness protection a priority
New ICC registrar vows to make witness protection a priority
Jaime Jansen
April 18, 2008 09:23:00 am

The UN-backed International Criminal Court (ICC) swore in Silvana Arbia as new registrar in a ceremony at The Hague on Thursday, during which Arbia said that she intends to make protecting witnesses a...

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News Canada tried to prevent Khadr transfer to Guantanamo: letter
Canada tried to prevent Khadr transfer to Guantanamo: letter
Jaime Jansen
April 18, 2008 08:57:00 am

Canada requested in 2002 that the United States not send detainee Omar Khadr to Guantanamo Bay after his capture in Afghanistan, according to a letter submitted with court documents filed by...

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DOJ probing memo authorizing military use of harsh interrogation methods
Jaime Jansen
April 18, 2008 08:45:00 am

The US Department of Justice has opened an internal probe into whether DOJ lawyers acted improperly when advising the US Department of Defense in a 2003 memorandum that military interrogators could employ a...

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News Samsung CEO indicted for alleged tax evasion, breach of trust
Samsung CEO indicted for alleged tax evasion, breach of trust
Jaime Jansen
April 17, 2008 09:20:00 am

South Korean prosecutors on Thursday charged Samsung Chairman and CEO Kun-Hee Lee with breach of trust and tax evasion, but decided not to charge him based on accusations that Samsung maintained a $200 million slush...

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Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the US in perpetuity

On February 23, 1903, Cuba leased Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity" as part of the Cuban-American Treaty. The United States subsequently used the lease to establish a Naval Base at Guantanamo. With the US invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, a military prison was built at Guantanamo to house prisoners of war and terrorism suspects captured by American forces, becoming the subject of much controversy over its detentions without trial.

NAACP founder W.E.B. DuBois born

W.E.B. DuBois, founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was born on February 23, 1868. Review the W.E.B. DuBois Papers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and released FBI files on DuBois kept because of his affiliation with "communist front groups."

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