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News War crimes prosecutor says wanted Taylor remains threat to West Africa
War crimes prosecutor says wanted Taylor remains threat to West Africa
Jamie Sterling
May 3, 2005 02:14:00 pm

Exiled former President of Liberia Charles Taylor will remain a threat to the entire West African region until he is tried and has said he will continue his efforts to assassinate Guinean President Lansana Conte according...

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News Partial Iraqi government sworn-in
Partial Iraqi government sworn-in
Jamie Sterling
May 3, 2005 01:21:00 pm

New Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and 27 Cabinet members were sworn in Tuesday as Iraq's first post-Saddam elected government. That government remains incomplete, however, with five ministries under temporary leadership and two deputy prime...

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News Omanis protest convictions of 31 for plotting government overthrow
Omanis protest convictions of 31 for plotting government overthrow
Jamie Sterling
May 3, 2005 12:51:00 pm

Thousands of Omanis on Tuesday gathered at a mosque in Oman's capital city of Muscat to protest Monday's state security court conviction of 31 people for plotting to overthrow Sultan Qaboos [Oman Ministry of Information...

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News Families of UK soldiers killed in Iraq demand inquiry into war’s legality
Families of UK soldiers killed in Iraq demand inquiry into war’s legality
Jamie Sterling
May 3, 2005 11:25:00 am

The UK-based group Military Families Against the War delivered a letter of claim to Prime Minister Tony Blair Tuesday demanding a full independent public inquiry into the deaths of their relatives and the...

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News Saddam lawyer accuses Iranian government of assassination plot
Saddam lawyer accuses Iranian government of assassination plot
Jamie Sterling
May 3, 2005 09:40:00 am

Ziad al-Khasawneh , the Jordanian head of Saddam Hussein's legal defense team, claimed Monday that Iranian-backed Iraqi politicians are plotting to assassinate Hussein in prison. Al-Khasawneh based his claim on information received from a former Iraqi government official...

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News Danish soldiers plead not guilty to charges of Iraqi prisoner abuse
Danish soldiers plead not guilty to charges of Iraqi prisoner abuse
Jamie Sterling
May 3, 2005 08:47:00 am

A Danish intelligence officer, Reserve Capt. Annemette Hommel, and four military police sergeants pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of abuse of Iraqi prisoners . The military prosecutor, Benny Holm Frandsen, told a Copenhagen court that the soldiers...

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News Battle over Bush judicial nominees escalates in new TV ads
Battle over Bush judicial nominees escalates in new TV ads
Jamie Sterling
May 3, 2005 08:19:00 am

In an escalation of the controversy over judicial nominations, the conservative group Progress for America began running television advertisements in six states Monday at the outset of a $3.3 million dollar TV ad campaign that will go...

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News Italy report says US shooting of agent in Iraq unintended result of confusion, stress
Italy report says US shooting of agent in Iraq unintended result of confusion, stress
Jamie Sterling
May 2, 2005 05:15:00 pm

A report released late Monday by Italian officials on the circumstances of the March 4 shooting of Italian agent Nicola Calipari after an Iraq hostage rescue has challenged a report on the same incident produced by US military investigators....

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News Kuwaiti women’s suffrage bill fails for lack of quorum
Kuwaiti women’s suffrage bill fails for lack of quorum
Jamie Sterling
May 2, 2005 03:14:00 pm

A landmark bill which would have allowed Kuwaiti women to vote and stand in municipal elections failed Monday in the Kuwaiti Parliament . Twenty-nine deputies voted in favor of the bill and...

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News Jeb Bush signs bill setting harsher penalties for child sex offenders
Jeb Bush signs bill setting harsher penalties for child sex offenders
Jamie Sterling
May 2, 2005 02:47:00 pm

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed the Jessica Lunsford Act on Monday, a bill designed to impose tougher punishment on child sex abusers. The bill was drafted in March after the body of nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford...

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US Supreme Court said bussing could be used to achieve racial integration

On April 20, 1971, the US Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education that busing of school students could be ordered to achieve racial desegregation.

League of Nations dissolved

On April 20, 1946, the League of Nations was officially dissolved with the close of its final session. Thirty-four countries had attended the final meeting at which they elected to dismantle the organization and bequeath its assets to the United Nations. Read a history of League of Nations from the UN.

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