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News Turkish PM calls for end to headscarf ban in public facilities
Turkish PM calls for end to headscarf ban in public facilities
Jaime Jansen
January 17, 2008 08:44:00 am

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday called for the government of Turkey to lift a ban on women wearing headscarves in universities and public offices, urging the government not to wait for a...

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News Congress told CIA interrogation videos destroyed against instructions: Hoekstra
Congress told CIA interrogation videos destroyed against instructions: Hoekstra
Jaime Jansen
January 17, 2008 07:59:00 am

John Rizzo, the acting general counsel of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) , said Wednesday that the former head of the clandestine branch of the CIA Jose Rodriguez ordered the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of...

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News Homeland Security issues Real ID Act regulations
Homeland Security issues Real ID Act regulations
Jaime Jansen
January 11, 2008 11:30:00 am

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Friday issued a final rule establishing new minimum standards for state-issued identification cards under the Real ID Act . DHS will...

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News Kenya opposition party calls for more protests over disputed election
Kenya opposition party calls for more protests over disputed election
Jaime Jansen
January 11, 2008 10:12:00 am

Kenya's main opposition party, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) , Friday called for three days of protests over the disputed re-election of Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki . More than 500 people have already died in...

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News Ex-Guantanamo detainee Hicks wants prison closed: father
Ex-Guantanamo detainee Hicks wants prison closed: father
Jaime Jansen
January 11, 2008 09:33:00 am

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks wants the US to close the Cuba-based detention center, Hicks' father told a rally in Australia Friday. Hicks fears that the remaining detainees at Guantanamo Bay will...

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News Japan parliament passes anti-terror bill with majority override
Japan parliament passes anti-terror bill with majority override
Jaime Jansen
January 11, 2008 08:45:00 am

Japan's parliament approved new anti-terror legislation Friday that will grant an extension to a Japanese refueling mission in the Indian Ocean. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) , led by Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda [official...

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News Abu Ghraib officer says abuse investigation was incomplete
Abu Ghraib officer says abuse investigation was incomplete
Jaime Jansen
January 11, 2008 08:06:00 am

US Army Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan , whose conviction relating to the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal was thrown out earlier this week, told AP Thursday that the investigation...

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News DHS readying lawsuits over properties blocking path of US-Mexico border fence
DHS readying lawsuits over properties blocking path of US-Mexico border fence
Jaime Jansen
January 10, 2008 09:25:00 am

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is preparing over 100 court cases against landowners along the US-Mexico border who have refused to allow construction of a 670-mile border fence on their properties, DHS officials said Wednesday....

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News South Korea constitutional court approves fraud probe of president-elect
South Korea constitutional court approves fraud probe of president-elect
Jaime Jansen
January 10, 2008 08:42:00 am

The Constitutional Court of Korea on Thursday approved a special investigation of South Korean President-elect Lee Myung-bak over fraud allegations relating to stock price-rigging by a former business partner. Lee, who...

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News Ex-CIA official who ordered destruction of interrogation videos wants immunity for testimony
Ex-CIA official who ordered destruction of interrogation videos wants immunity for testimony
Jaime Jansen
January 10, 2008 08:01:00 am

Jose Rodriguez, the former head of the US CIA's clandestine branch who ordered the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects , has told Congress that he will not testify about the videotapes without a...

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Accused Nazi war criminal, John Demjanjuk, put on trial in Israel

On February 16, 1987, accused Nazi war criminal, John Demjanjuk, went on trial in Jerusalem, Israel. The prosecution claimed that Demjanjuk was a notorious prison guard known as "Ivan the Terrible" at the Treblinka extermination camp during World War II. On this basis, Demjanjuk was convicted by the Israeli court of crimes against humanity. However, in August 1993, the conviction was overturned by Israel's Supreme Court on a finding of reasonable doubt. After the decision by the Supreme Court of Israel, Demjanjuk was returned to the United States, where he had been moved after World War II. On December 22, 2006, the US Board of Immigration Appeals ordered him deported to Ukraine on a finding that he had been a guard at other Nazi concentration camps.

American anarchist arrested for advocating birth control

On February 16, 1916, feminist and anarchist Emma Goldman was arrested in New York City for advocating birth control. Learn more about Emma Goldman and her defense of reproductive rights from the University of California, Berkeley.

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