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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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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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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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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for spying

On April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death after a treason trial in which they were convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. Learn more about the Rosenberg trial.

Lockerbie bombers turned over for trial

On April 5, 1999, the government of Libya turned over to British authorities two of its citizens who were accused of blowing up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. The subsequent trial of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah began on May 3, 2000. When the court reached its verdict, Fhimah was found not guilty and returned to Libya, while Megrahi was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

Learn more about the Lockerbie Air Disaster and the trial of Megrahi and Fhimah from the Syracuse University Law School. Also, learn more about the investigation into the disaster from the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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