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News Watchdog highlights corruption in international health care
Watchdog highlights corruption in international health care
James M Yoch Jr
February 1, 2006 08:48:00 pm

Transparency International , an international corruption watchdog group, said Wednesday in its 2006 Global Corruption Report that malfeasance in both private and public sector health care systems around the world was rampant and...

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Ex-Enron exec says Lay, Skilling knew earnings claims exaggerated
James M Yoch Jr
February 1, 2006 08:12:00 pm

Mark Koenig, former executive VP of investor relations at Enron , testified in the early stages of the prosecution case Wednesday that founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling , both...

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News Alito casts first Supreme Court vote in refusal to allow Missouri execution
Alito casts first Supreme Court vote in refusal to allow Missouri execution
James M Yoch Jr
February 1, 2006 07:45:00 pm

New US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito cast his first vote on the country's highest court on Wednesday in a decision to deny a request to vacate the stay of execution for...

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News Second Gomery report recommends limiting Canada PM’s power after scandal
Second Gomery report recommends limiting Canada PM’s power after scandal
James M Yoch Jr
February 1, 2006 06:56:00 pm

Quebec Justice John Gomery Wednesday released the second report of his judicial commission of inquiry into the Canadian sponsorships and advertising program scandal that developed during the term of former Liberal Party...

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News West Virginia governor signs mine safety law
West Virginia governor signs mine safety law
James M Yoch Jr
January 26, 2006 02:55:00 pm

West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin signed a mine safety bill Thursday S. 247 requiring mines to provide wireless emergency communicators, tracking devices and extra air supplies to their miners. The West Virginia Legislature [official...

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Saddam to sue Bush, Blair over alleged ‘war crimes’
James M Yoch Jr
January 26, 2006 01:52:00 pm

Khalil Dulaimi, chief defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein said Thursday following up on earlier defense statements that the ousted Iraqi leader intends "very soon" to sue US President George W. Bush, Secretary of Defense...

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Three indicted for ecoterrorism in California
James M Yoch Jr
January 26, 2006 01:30:00 pm

US Attorney McGregor Scott of the Eastern District of California has announced the indictments of three people for ecoterrorism on federal charges of conspiracy to use fire or explosives to damage property. The three defendants,...

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EU probe of CIA prisons may ask Cheney, Rumsfeld to testify
James M Yoch Jr
January 26, 2006 01:19:00 pm

The European Parliament , which has launched an investigation into allegations that the CIA illegally operated secret jails in Romania and Poland and covertly flew detainees through Italy, Germany and Poland, said...

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Pinochet daughter requests US political asylum
James M Yoch Jr
January 25, 2006 09:18:00 pm

Lucia Pinochet Hiriart, eldest daughter of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet , requested political asylum in the US Wednesday after being detained at Dulles International Airport in Washington, DC. US Ambassador to Chile...

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‘Iraqi agent’ convicted on six counts
James M Yoch Jr
January 25, 2006 08:59:00 pm

Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban, an Indiana truck driver accused of offering to sell names of US covert operatives to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government, was convicted Wednesday on six of seven criminal counts , including acting as an...

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Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the US in perpetuity

On February 23, 1903, Cuba leased Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity" as part of the Cuban-American Treaty. The United States subsequently used the lease to establish a Naval Base at Guantanamo. With the US invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, a military prison was built at Guantanamo to house prisoners of war and terrorism suspects captured by American forces, becoming the subject of much controversy over its detentions without trial.

NAACP founder W.E.B. DuBois born

W.E.B. DuBois, founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was born on February 23, 1868. Review the W.E.B. DuBois Papers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and released FBI files on DuBois kept because of his affiliation with "communist front groups."

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