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News Mauritania legislators elected to court trying deposed president
Mauritania legislators elected to court trying deposed president
Joe Shaulis
September 3, 2008 08:24:00 am

The Mauritanian Parliament has elected eight of its members to a High Court set to try deposed President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi on corruption charges. Legislators chose four National Assembly members and four...

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News Ex-AG Gonzales mishandled classified documents: US Justice Department report
Ex-AG Gonzales mishandled classified documents: US Justice Department report
Joe Shaulis
September 2, 2008 12:52:00 pm

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report on Tuesday concluding that former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales violated DOJ regulations by storing...

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News Brazil intelligence officials suspended following wiretapping allegations
Brazil intelligence officials suspended following wiretapping allegations
Joe Shaulis
September 2, 2008 12:39:00 pm

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has placed senior officials of the intelligence service Abin on suspension pending investigations of a report that its agents wiretapped a variety of high-ranking...

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News Bolivia president refuses to recognize electoral court referendum decision
Bolivia president refuses to recognize electoral court referendum decision
Joe Shaulis
September 2, 2008 11:07:00 am

The administration of Bolivian President Evo Morales is refusing to recognize a National Electoral Court (CNE) decision suspending a constitutional referendum set for Dec. 7 . Nationalization Minister Hector Arce said [ABI...

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News Spain judge launches probe to create Civil War victim list
Spain judge launches probe to create Civil War victim list
Joe Shaulis
September 2, 2008 09:49:00 am

Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon on Monday began an investigation to assemble a definitive registry of the tens of thousands of victims of the Spanish Civil War and the regime of Gen. Francisco...

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News Pakistan prosecutor moves to revive Sharif corruption cases
Pakistan prosecutor moves to revive Sharif corruption cases
Joe Shaulis
September 2, 2008 08:15:00 am

Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is seeking to reopen corruption cases against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother, said the NAB's Deputy Prosecutor General Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta on Tuesday. Bhutta...

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Eighth Circuit orders school to give gay rights group equal access
Joe Shaulis
August 29, 2008 03:41:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Friday ruled that a Minnesota school district must give a student group advocating gay rights the same access to...

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Pakistan law minister rules out reinstating chief justice
Joe Shaulis
August 29, 2008 02:41:00 pm

Pakistani Law Minister Farooq H. Naek told reporters Thursday that ousted Supreme Court chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry cannot be reinstated because the current chief justice was legitimately appointed . Naek said...

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News Argentina ex-generals convicted of murdering senator in ‘dirty war’
Argentina ex-generals convicted of murdering senator in ‘dirty war’
Joe Shaulis
August 29, 2008 12:44:00 pm

Two former generals were convicted Thursday of killing a senator during the so-called "dirty war" in Argentina and have been sentenced to life terms of house arrest. A court in Tucuman province found Antonio Bussi [New...

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Mexico Supreme Court upholds first-trimester abortion law
Joe Shaulis
August 29, 2008 11:13:00 am

The Mexican Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a law permitting first-trimester abortions in Mexico City does not violate the Mexican Constitution . The...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Warren Commission report on the Kennedy assassination released

On September 27, 1964, the report of the Warren Commission chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren on the Kennedy assassination was released. The report essentially concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone. Review the Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy.

WWII Axis Powers formed

On September 27, 1940, Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany, Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano of Italy and Ambassador Saburo Kurusu of Japan signed the Tripartite Pact, creating the World War II alliance of the Axis Powers. The Pact was later assented to by other members of the Axis, including Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

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