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News Hicks rejected meeting with Australian diplomat for fear of Gitmo punishment: lawyer
Hicks rejected meeting with Australian diplomat for fear of Gitmo punishment: lawyer
Jaime Jansen
November 2, 2006 11:45:00 am

Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has refused to meet with Australian consular officials in order to avoid punishment by US guards, his lawyer has told an Australian Senate panel. The lawyer said that Hicks believes...

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News Ohio voter ID law case settled
Ohio voter ID law case settled
Jaime Jansen
November 2, 2006 11:13:00 am

Ohio absentee voters must continue to show proof of ID when applying for an absentee ballot, but absentee ballots already obtained without ID will still be counted after a settlement was reached Wednesday between the state and...

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News UK information commissioner warns of ‘surveillance society’ threatening privacy
UK information commissioner warns of ‘surveillance society’ threatening privacy
Jaime Jansen
November 2, 2006 10:44:00 am

UK Information Commissioner Richard Thomas on Thursday warned that Britain is becoming a "surveillance society" , where the daily lives of citizens are increasingly monitored and privacy is being gradually - if often imperceptibly - eroded....

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Thailand to probe human rights violations by former government
Jaime Jansen
November 2, 2006 10:09:00 am

Thai interim Prime Minister Chulanont Surayud Thursday promised to investigate allegations of human rights violations by the government of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra . Speaking to Muslim leaders in the southern Pattani province,...

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Europe rights court to hear frozen embryos consent case
Jaime Jansen
October 30, 2006 02:53:00 pm

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) announced Monday that it will hear the appeal of a British woman trying to use frozen embryos despite objections from her former partner who fertilized the eggs. The ECHR ruled...

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Federal appeals court halts enforcement of South Dakota abortion law
Jaime Jansen
October 30, 2006 02:13:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Monday upheld a preliminary injunction preventing South Dakota from enforcing a 2005 abortion law pending a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood...

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Pinochet placed under house arrest on prison abuse charges
Jaime Jansen
October 30, 2006 01:46:00 pm

A federal judge in Chile placed former dictator Augusto Pinochet under house arrest Monday, marking the first time Pinochet has been detained on torture charges. Federal Judge Alejandro Solis ordered Pinochet's...

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Jaime Jansen
October 30, 2006 01:12:00 pm

An Italian court on Monday ordered former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and British corporate lawyer David Mills to face trial on corruption charges. According to Italian media reports, Mills in 1997...

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October 26, 2006 02:44:00 pm

US Marine Corps Pfc. John J. Jodka pleaded guilty Thursday to assault and obstruction of justice charges in relation to the April 26 death of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania . Jodka was...

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Bush signs border fence bill despite Mexico opposition
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October 26, 2006 10:38:00 am

President George W. Bush Thursday signed the Secure Fence Act of 2006 authorizing 700 miles of fencing along the US-Mexico border. The legislation represents the second portion of a two-part plan...

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Phillip III of Spain expels Muslim converts to Christianity

Phillip III of Spain began the expulsion of the country's "Morisco" (Muslims who converted to Christianity and their descendants) population on April 9, 1609, based on the Crown's fears that the Morisco population retained Muslim beliefs. Hundreds of thousands of Moriscos would be expelled from the country from 1609-1614. The expulsions took place just over 100 years after Spain's Jewish population was expelled in 1492. Learn more about the expulsion of the Moriscos.

Senate approves purchase of Alaska

On April 9, 1867, the U.S. Senate voted to ratify the Treaty with Russia for the Purchase of Alaska and thereby approve the purchase of the territory from Russia for $7.2 million. Initially, the purchase was made to keep Alaska away from the British. It was politically unpopular with many Americans who denounced it is "Seward's Folly", after U.S. Secretary of State William Seward, who had lobbied for the purchase. Seward was later vindicated by the discovery of gold and oil in Alaska.

Learn more about the Alaska Purchase from the U.S. State Department.

Last beheading in England

On April 9, 1747, Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, became the last man to be beheaded in England when he was executed on Tower Hill for his part in the Jacobite rising of 1745. Learn more about the legal history and practice of beheading.

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