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News Egypt keeping ban on Muslim Brotherhood despite electoral gains
Egypt keeping ban on Muslim Brotherhood despite electoral gains
James M Yoch Jr
November 29, 2005 03:28:00 pm

The Egyptian government does not plan to allow the Muslim Brotherhood to become a legal political party even though it has so far won 76 of 444 seats by running candidates as independents in the three-phase Egyptian...

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News Texas Supreme Court rules school finance system unconstitutional
Texas Supreme Court rules school finance system unconstitutional
James M Yoch Jr
November 22, 2005 03:56:00 pm

The Texas Supreme Court Tuesday declared a statewide property tax unconstitutional because it sets a cap limit that most school districts are at or near already. The ruling partly affirmed and partly reversed a prior decision...

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News US Education Department eases No Child Left Behind rules
US Education Department eases No Child Left Behind rules
James M Yoch Jr
November 22, 2005 03:09:00 pm

The US Education Department on Tuesday planned to send to states initiatives easing some requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) , which educators have...

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News Iraqi officials to investigate allegations of torture by security forces
Iraqi officials to investigate allegations of torture by security forces
James M Yoch Jr
November 15, 2005 04:50:00 pm

Iraq’s government announced plans on Tuesday to investigate allegations that Iraqi security forces abused more than 170 prisoners held in central Baghdad, who were found malnourished and showing evidence of torture. Prompted by the repeated pleadings of a missing...

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News French lower house votes to extend state of emergency
French lower house votes to extend state of emergency
James M Yoch Jr
November 15, 2005 04:00:00 pm

France's National Assembly , the lower house of parliament, on Tuesday voted to extend emergency powers originally granted for 12 days on November 8 to combat the civil unrest that started in late October....

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News UN inspectors call for unrestricted access to Guantanamo
UN inspectors call for unrestricted access to Guantanamo
James M Yoch Jr
November 15, 2005 03:21:00 pm

Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture , on Tuesday called for unrestricted inspections of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay . The UN plans to send inspectors to Guantanamo on December 6 for a...

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News Pentagon says no death penalty for Canadian Guantanamo detainee
Pentagon says no death penalty for Canadian Guantanamo detainee
James M Yoch Jr
November 9, 2005 04:51:00 pm

The Pentagon has said it will not seek the death penalty against Omar Ahmed Khadr , an 18-year-old Canadian citizen detained at Guantanamo Bay who admitted throwing a grenade that killed...

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News ICC calls for cooperation in arresting Ugandan rebel leaders
ICC calls for cooperation in arresting Ugandan rebel leaders
James M Yoch Jr
November 9, 2005 03:48:00 pm

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has called for global cooperation in the arrest of five members of Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) , during a report Tuesday...

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News Libby establishes legal defense fund
Libby establishes legal defense fund
James M Yoch Jr
November 9, 2005 03:18:00 pm

I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , the indicted former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, has established a fund to help pay for his defense against criminal charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in the investigation...

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News Rights groups petition Israel to stop sonic boom flights over Gaza
Rights groups petition Israel to stop sonic boom flights over Gaza
James M Yoch Jr
November 2, 2005 04:53:00 pm

Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups Wednesday filed a joint petition demanding that the Israeli Air Force stop causing sonic booms over Gaza, calling supersonic flights over the area “collective punishment against the civilian population” in a...

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US apologizes to Japanese-Americans for detention during WWII

US President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 into law on August 10, 1988, apologizing on behalf of the United States to Japanese-Americans who were interned in camps during WWII and providing $20,000 in compensation for each survivor. The law also provided $12,000 in compensation for each living displaced Aleutian Islander who was relocated to a camp in Alaska during the US's Aleutian Islands campaign.

President Reagan authorized compensation for Japanese-Americans interned during World War II

On August 10, 1988, US President Ronald Reagan signed a bill that provided payments of $20,000 to Japanese-Americans who were sent to internment camps by the US government during World War II. Learn more about the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which also included a formal apology by Congress for what it called a "grave injustice."

National Security Act Amendment reorganizes U.S. military

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