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News UK government wards off terror law amendment by one vote
UK government wards off terror law amendment by one vote
Jamie Sterling
November 2, 2005 11:54:00 am

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair won a narrow victory in the House of Commons Wednesday as his government warded off an amendment to its proposed counter-terrorism legislation by one vote. The government defeated a proposal...

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News Federal appeals court to rehear appeal of accused Cuban spies
Federal appeals court to rehear appeal of accused Cuban spies
Jamie Sterling
November 2, 2005 11:23:00 am

A US federal appeals court has agreed to rehear the appeal of five accused Cuban spies , convicted of serving as unregistered agents of a foreign government and conspiracy to commit espionage. The decision to rehear the case...

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News Pentagon to investigate alleged desecration of Taliban dead by US soldiers
Pentagon to investigate alleged desecration of Taliban dead by US soldiers
Jamie Sterling
October 20, 2005 12:50:00 pm

The US military announced late Wednesday that it is conducting an investigation into the alleged desecration of the bodies of two dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan by US soldiers. The troops burned two bodies and used the...

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News Spain court urged to drop arrest warrant for US soldiers
Spain court urged to drop arrest warrant for US soldiers
Jamie Sterling
October 20, 2005 12:33:00 pm

Prosecutors for Spain's National Court asked Thursday that the court drop an arrest warrant issued for three American soldiers who allegedly killed Spanish journalist Jose Couso and a Ukrainian cameraman in Iraq, according to a court official....

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News Milosevic denied more time to question witnesses
Milosevic denied more time to question witnesses
Jamie Sterling
October 20, 2005 12:00:00 pm

Judges at The Hague Thursday refused a request by Slobodan Milosevic , on trial for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , for more time...

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News Iraqi tribunal to hear testimony from ailing prosecution witness
Iraqi tribunal to hear testimony from ailing prosecution witness
Jamie Sterling
October 20, 2005 11:50:00 am

Although the Saddam Hussein trial has been delayed until next month , a key witness seriously ill with cancer will testify before the trial resumes, presiding Judge Rizgar Amin announced Thursday. The witness, Wadah Ismael...

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News 2002 Bali bombers decline to seek presidential pardon of death sentences
2002 Bali bombers decline to seek presidential pardon of death sentences
Jamie Sterling
October 20, 2005 11:12:00 am

Three militant fighters convicted for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed over 200 have refused to seek presidential pardons, saying that they are prepared to be executed, a prosecutor said Thursday. The bombing in Bali earlier...

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News Australia pressing UN to put Mugabe on trial
Australia pressing UN to put Mugabe on trial
Jamie Sterling
October 20, 2005 10:32:00 am

Australia is urging the UN Security Council to put Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe on trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against his own people. Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer ...

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News New arrest warrant issued for Milosevic’s wife
New arrest warrant issued for Milosevic’s wife
Jamie Sterling
October 13, 2005 11:50:00 am

Serbian authorities issued a new arrest warrant for the wife of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic Thursday. Mirjana Markovic , who fled Russia in 2003 in the face of an international warrant, failed...

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News Ohio high court says cash-only bonds unconstitutional
Ohio high court says cash-only bonds unconstitutional
Jamie Sterling
October 13, 2005 11:42:00 am

The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that it is unconstitutional for judges to require cash-only bonds pending trial. In a 4-3 ruling Wednesday, the court said that a 1993 decision that said that Ohio defendants...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Gorbachev becomes USSR leader

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. He soon announced that he would hold arms-reduction negotiations in Geneva with the United States. Gorbachev also used his tenure to liberalize the economy and social structure of the USSR, eventually leading to the abatement of the Soviet Union. In 1990, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Read documents and interviews from the 1990 USA-USSR Summit.

Confederate Constitution adopted

On March 11, 1861, seven former US states adopted the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, which closely followed the language, if not necessarily the purport, of the original US Constitution. Section 9 (4) of the Confederate Constitution read "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed," enshrining the right to own slaves as fundamental law.

ICC holds first meeting

The war crimes court known as the International Criminal Court (ICC) swore in its first batch of judges on March 11, 2003. The meeting took place eight months after the ratification of the court's Rome Statute. Then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said of the occasion: It has taken mankind many years to reach this moment. By the solemn undertaking they have given here in open court, these 11 men and seven women, representing all regions of the world and many different cultures and legal traditions, have made themselves the embodiment of our collective conscience. Learn more about the work of the ICC.  

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