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News Supreme Court rules in criminal tax evasion case
Supreme Court rules in criminal tax evasion case
Jeannie Shawl
March 3, 2008 10:20:00 am

The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in two cases Monday, including Boulware v. US , where the Court overturned a Ninth Circuit decision upholding a criminal tax evasion prosecution....

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News US Supreme Court allows FedEx age discrimination lawsuit
US Supreme Court allows FedEx age discrimination lawsuit
Jeannie Shawl
February 27, 2008 10:30:00 am

The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a group of former and current Federal Express employees met the requirements for filing an age discrimination lawsuit against the company under the Age Discrimination in Employment...

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News Nigeria election tribunal upholds disputed presidential poll
Nigeria election tribunal upholds disputed presidential poll
Jeannie Shawl
February 26, 2008 02:22:00 pm

Nigeria's Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal on Tuesday upheld the results of last year's disputed presidential elections , saying that opposition groups failed to present sufficient evidence to support their fraud allegations . European Union and NGO observers...

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News EU court says employee firing over in vitro treatment violates equal treatment laws
EU court says employee firing over in vitro treatment violates equal treatment laws
Jeannie Shawl
February 26, 2008 01:59:00 pm

The European Court of Justice on Tuesday ruled that an employee's "dismissal essentially based on the fact that a woman is at an advanced stage of in vitro fertilisation treatment is contrary to...

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News Supreme Court rules in age discrimination evidence case
Supreme Court rules in age discrimination evidence case
Jeannie Shawl
February 26, 2008 10:30:00 am

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that testimony from workers who suffered job bias but were not parties to a federal age discrimination case "is neither per se admissible nor per se inadmissible" under...

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News Russia limiting free speech rights ahead of elections: Amnesty
Russia limiting free speech rights ahead of elections: Amnesty
Jeannie Shawl
February 26, 2008 09:48:00 am

Russia is clamping down "on the freedoms of assembly and expression in the run-up to parliamentary and presidential elections," according to a report released by Amnesty International Tuesday. Amnesty expressed concern that authorities are harassing rights...

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Pakistan lifts YouTube ban over ‘blasphemous’ content
Jeannie Shawl
February 26, 2008 09:36:00 am

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Tuesday ordered some 70 Internet service providers to restore access to video-sharing website YouTube , lifting an order issued last week blocking access over "blasphemous" posted on the...

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News Ex-Khmer Rouge prison chief visits mass grave site in ECCC investigation
Ex-Khmer Rouge prison chief visits mass grave site in ECCC investigation
Jeannie Shawl
February 26, 2008 09:17:00 am

Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav , also known as Duch, visited the Choeung Ek "killing field" Tuesday as part of an on-site investigation by co-investigating judges of the Extraordinary Chambers in the...

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Canada judge rules emergency wiretap law unconstitutional
Jeannie Shawl
February 26, 2008 08:46:00 am

British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Barry Davies has ruled that Section 184.4 of the Canadian Criminal Code , which allows law enforcement officers to electronically intercept private communications in "exceptional circumstances" without court authorization, is unconstitutional because it...

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Supreme Court hears money laundering case
Jeannie Shawl
February 25, 2008 06:25:00 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in Cuellar v. United States , 06-1456, where the Court considered "whether merely hiding funds with no design...

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WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban

On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans. Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

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