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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Former Merrill banker gets prison for role in Enron scandal
BREAKING NEWS ~ Former Merrill banker gets prison for role in Enron scandal
Jamie Sterling
May 12, 2005 01:38:00 pm

Ex-Merrill Lynch investment banker Robert Furst has been fined $565,000 and sentenced to 37 months in federal prison in connection with his role in the Enron scandal. Furst was convicted for setting up a fake deal with...

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News Sailor turned anti-war activist convicted at court-martial
Sailor turned anti-war activist convicted at court-martial
Jamie Sterling
May 12, 2005 01:18:00 pm

A US sailor who turned against the Iraq war was convicted Wednesday during a special court-martial for failing to report for duty in the Persian Gulf in December. Petty Officer 3rd Class Pablo Paredes was...

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News Republican Voinovich says he will not support Bolton UN nomination
Republican Voinovich says he will not support Bolton UN nomination
Jamie Sterling
May 12, 2005 01:02:00 pm

GOP Senator George Voinovich surprised observers Thursday when he told colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he will not support the nomination of John Bolton as US ambassador to the United Nations [US...

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News Hearings underway in Srebrenica suit against Dutch government
Hearings underway in Srebrenica suit against Dutch government
Jamie Sterling
May 12, 2005 11:41:00 am

Hearings began Thursday in a civil suit filed against the Dutch government by two families of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre . The families claim that the Dutch government should be held responsible because of Dutch peacekeepers'...

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News EU constitution approved by German lower house
EU constitution approved by German lower house
Jamie Sterling
May 12, 2005 10:55:00 am

Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag , approved the European Constitution Thursday by a 569-23 vote. The Constitution next heads to the Bundesrat , Germany's upper house, where it is also...

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News Afghan riots over Gitmo Koran desecration continue; 3 more dead
Afghan riots over Gitmo Koran desecration continue; 3 more dead
Jamie Sterling
May 12, 2005 10:31:00 am

Riots in eastern Afghanistan triggered by recent Newsweek-published reports of American desecration of the Koran at Guantanamo continued and spread Thursday, resulting in three more deaths . Rioting has now hit 10 Afghan provinces, including the...

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News Ocalan trial found unfair by European human rights court
Ocalan trial found unfair by European human rights court
Jamie Sterling
May 12, 2005 10:14:00 am

The appellate body of the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday that the Turkish trial of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan was unfair , stating that Ocalan was not...

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News Senate probe accuses UK, French politicians of taking oil-for-food kickbacks
Senate probe accuses UK, French politicians of taking oil-for-food kickbacks
Jamie Sterling
May 12, 2005 09:48:00 am

The investigations subcommittee of the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee reported Thursday that British Member of Parliament George Galloway and French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua ...

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News Intel colonel reprimanded, fined for Abu Ghraib involvement
Intel colonel reprimanded, fined for Abu Ghraib involvement
Jamie Sterling
May 12, 2005 09:30:00 am

A colonel at the head of a military intelligence unit at Abu Ghraib prison has been reprimanded and fined $8000 in connection with the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Col. Thomas M. Pappas , commander of the 205th Military...

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News Senate Judiciary Committee wants sickest asbestos victims compensated fastest
Senate Judiciary Committee wants sickest asbestos victims compensated fastest
Jamie Sterling
May 12, 2005 09:08:00 am

The US Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday approved an amendment to the Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act of 2005 (FAIR) which would guarantee that the sickest asbestos victims will be compensated the fastest. The FAIR...

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India sues Union Carbide over Bhopal industrial disaster

On April 8, 1985, the government of India filed a lawsuit against the Union Carbide Corporation for the Bhopal industrial disaster in which forty-two tons of methyl isocyanate gas was released from the pesticide plant of a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The disaster initially killed 2,000 Indians and injured another 200,000. These injuries led to another 16,000 deaths as a result of exposure to the gas. In 1989, the parties reached a $470 million settlement out of court. Learn more about the Bhopal industrial disaster from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the government of Madhya Pradesh.

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