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News Federal judge extends Microsoft antitrust settlement until 2009
Federal judge extends Microsoft antitrust settlement until 2009
Joe Shaulis
May 17, 2006 01:32:00 pm

Microsoft must abide by the terms of its 2002 antitrust settlement with the US Justice Department through November 2009, a federal judge said Wednesday. US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly...

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News Japan parliament approves bill requiring fingerprints, photos for foreign visitors
Japan parliament approves bill requiring fingerprints, photos for foreign visitors
Joe Shaulis
May 17, 2006 12:43:00 pm

Visitors to Japan will be electronically fingerprinted and photographed under a bill approved Wednesday by the House of Councillors , the upper house of Japan's parliament. Foreign visitors 16 and older will have their fingerprints...

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News Disciplinary hearings for Egypt judges set as supporters clash with police
Disciplinary hearings for Egypt judges set as supporters clash with police
Joe Shaulis
May 17, 2006 12:03:00 pm

A disciplinary hearing for two Egyptian judges who complained of alleged fraud in last year's parliamentary elections is set to resume amid renewed clashes between riot police and the judges' supporters . The judges, Mahmoud Mekki...

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News Senate rejects ‘security first’ amendment to immigration bill
Senate rejects ‘security first’ amendment to immigration bill
Joe Shaulis
May 16, 2006 03:36:00 pm

The US Senate on Tuesday rejected a conservative amendment to proposed immigration legislation that would have required new US border security measures to be fully completed and fully operational before the government could implement a program...

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News UN rights official says US stonewalling probes into CIA rendition claims
UN rights official says US stonewalling probes into CIA rendition claims
Joe Shaulis
May 16, 2006 02:35:00 pm

Martin Scheinin , UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counterterrorism, said Tuesday that US officials have been stonewalling investigations into allegations that the Central Intelligence Agency flew terrorism suspects through Europe to...

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Specter, committee conservatives make deal on surveillance bill: report
Joe Shaulis
May 16, 2006 01:50:00 pm

US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter and conservative members of the committee have struck a deal on Specter's proposed bill to clarify the legality of the National Security Agency surveillance...

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Security Council passes resolution on UN peacekeepers in Darfur
Joe Shaulis
May 16, 2006 01:01:00 pm

The UN Security Council unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday that accelerates planning for a United Nations peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur region . US President Bush last week asked the Council [press...

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News Texas appeals court stays execution in lethal injection challenge
Texas appeals court stays execution in lethal injection challenge
Joe Shaulis
May 16, 2006 12:19:00 pm

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has stayed Tuesday's scheduled execution of a gang member who tortured and killed two teenage girls . The reason for the stay, announced in a...

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EU foreign ministers press Serbia to hand over Mladic
Joe Shaulis
May 15, 2006 02:44:00 pm

European foreign ministers on Monday again promised progress toward admitting Serbia to the European Union if war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic is handed over promptly. The former Bosnian Serb general is...

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ANC reinstates Zuma as Deputy President after rape acquittal
Joe Shaulis
May 15, 2006 02:18:00 pm

Jacob Zuma has regained his position as deputy president of South Africa's ruling African National Congress after his acquittal on charges of raping an HIV-positive woman. The ANC's Executive Committee decided Sunday to...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

US and Japan sign Kanagwa Treaty

On March 31, 1854, US Commodore Matthew Perry and representatives of the Japanese government signed the Convention of Kanagawa. The terms of the treaty marked the end of Japan's 500 years of self-imposed isolation by opening the Ports of Shimoda and Hakodate. Four years later, Japanese-American relations were further expanded by the Treaty of Amity and Commerce (Harris Treaty), which opened more Japanese ports to US trade and set up a system of extraterritoriality for Americans in Japan.

Spanish royal decree ordered expulsion of Jews

On March 31, 1492, King Ferdinand of Spain signed a decree expelling Jews from his kingdom. Read a contemporary account of the expulsion, originally written in Hebrew by an Italian Jew in 1495.

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