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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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Japan parliament approves bill requiring fingerprints, photos for foreign visitors
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

Bank of England granted political independence

On May 6, 1997, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced that the Bank of England would be granted political independence for the first time in the three-hundred year history of the Bank. This policy was statutized in the subsequent Bank of England Act of 1998 gave the Bank independent control of British monetary policy effective June 1, 1998. Read the Bank of England Act of 1998.

Chinese Exclusion Act barred Chinese laborers from US

On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States and prohibiting courts from bestowing US citizenship on Chinese. Connecticut Senator Joseph Hawley spoke out against the Act in these words: Let the proposed statue be read 100 years hence, dug out of the dust of ages and forgotten as it will be except for a line of sneer by some historian, and ask the young man not well read in the history of this country what was the reason for excluding these men and he would not be able to find it in the law. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and its successors were abolished in 1943 at the insistence of President Franklin Roosevelt.

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