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News Afghan student sentenced to death for blasphemy had no lawyer during trial
Afghan student sentenced to death for blasphemy had no lawyer during trial
Joshua Pantesco
February 25, 2008 09:38:00 am

The Afghan journalism student who was sentenced to death in January for distributing papers questioning gender roles under Islamic practice told the Independent on Sunday that he was not afforded a lawyer to represent him...

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News Cuba parliament elects Raul Castro as new president
Cuba parliament elects Raul Castro as new president
Joshua Pantesco
February 25, 2008 09:16:00 am

The Cuban National Assembly on Sunday, by a unanimous show of hands, officially voted Raul Castro , 76, to the position of president, and also chose Jose Ramon Machado Ventura , 76, as the first vice president....

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News California Supreme Court withdraws proposal to ease death penalty backlog
California Supreme Court withdraws proposal to ease death penalty backlog
Joshua Pantesco
February 25, 2008 08:17:00 am

Chief Justice Ronald George of the California Supreme Court told the state's Judiciary Council on Friday that the Supreme Court is withdrawing a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at expediting death penalty appeals by allowing the...

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News Afghan student sentenced to death for blasphemy entitled to open appeal: justice
Afghan student sentenced to death for blasphemy entitled to open appeal: justice
Joshua Pantesco
February 19, 2008 08:09:00 am

The Afghan journalism student who was sentenced to death in January for distributing papers questioning gender roles under Islamic practice will be provided the right to appeal his death sentence in open court, an Afghanistan Supreme Court...

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News Canada lawmakers call for broader surveillance bill after court ruling
Canada lawmakers call for broader surveillance bill after court ruling
Joshua Pantesco
February 18, 2008 09:25:00 am

A number of Canadian politicians are urging the Canadian parliament to pass new legislation aimed at permitting the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) to conduct surveillance on Canadian citizens outside Canada in the wake of a controversial...

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News Egypt police arrest 51 Muslim Brotherhood candidates ahead of local elections
Egypt police arrest 51 Muslim Brotherhood candidates ahead of local elections
Joshua Pantesco
February 18, 2008 08:51:00 am

Egyptian police on Sunday arrested 51 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood , most of whom were expected to run in upcoming provincial council elections scheduled for April 8 . Egypt's provincial councils administer local...

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News US intelligence chief urges replacement surveillance bill with telecom immunity
US intelligence chief urges replacement surveillance bill with telecom immunity
Joshua Pantesco
February 18, 2008 08:23:00 am

A new foreign intelligence surveillance bill is needed to ensure that the US intelligence community has "the agility and the speed that we had before" to capture terrorist communications in the war on terror, US Director of National Intelligence...

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News Russia, China propose draft treaty on use of weapons in space
Russia, China propose draft treaty on use of weapons in space
Joshua Pantesco
February 12, 2008 09:41:00 am

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday submitted to the 2008 Conference on Disarmament (CD) a draft treaty, jointly proposed with China, that would regulate the use of weapons in space. According to a press release ...

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News Denmark police arrest suspects in alleged plot to kill Muhammad cartoonist
Denmark police arrest suspects in alleged plot to kill Muhammad cartoonist
Joshua Pantesco
February 12, 2008 09:11:00 am

Danish police on Tuesday arrested several people suspected in a plot to murder Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, one of the 12 cartoonists who published cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad in 2005 that sparked widespread protests...

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News Federal judge allows limited probe into White House office in missing e-mails case
Federal judge allows limited probe into White House office in missing e-mails case
Joshua Pantesco
February 12, 2008 08:10:00 am

A federal judge on Monday issued an order permitting the government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) to conduct "very limited" discovery in its case against the White House Office of...

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On February 25, 1982, in Campbell & Cosans v. The United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that parents can prevent teachers in the United Kingdom from striking their schoolchildren. At the time of the court's decision, the UK was the only Western European nation that permitted corporal punishment in schools.

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