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News Observers, opposition raise fraud concerns in Kazakh presidential reelection
Observers, opposition raise fraud concerns in Kazakh presidential reelection
Kate Heneroty
December 5, 2005 09:07:00 am

Western elections observers and opposition leaders have raised doubts as to the fairness of the reelection of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev , who won 91 percent of the vote Sunday. The Organization for Security and Cooperation...

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News Milosevic, prosecutors oppose ICTY plan to split up war crimes trial
Milosevic, prosecutors oppose ICTY plan to split up war crimes trial
Kate Heneroty
November 29, 2005 11:33:00 am

War crimes prosecutors and former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic were in rare agreement Tuesday in their opposition to a proposal by judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ...

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News Supreme Court rules on federal court jurisdiction in diversity lawsuits
Supreme Court rules on federal court jurisdiction in diversity lawsuits
Kate Heneroty
November 29, 2005 10:47:00 am

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday handed down a unanimous decision in Lincoln Property v. Roche , reversing the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, holding that a lawsuit filed...

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News Australian House passes terror law without amendment
Australian House passes terror law without amendment
Kate Heneroty
November 29, 2005 09:38:00 am

The Australian House of Representatives passed the federal government's anti-terrorism bill Monday night, without amendments requested by a coalition Senate committee and by members of the Labor Party. The committee recommended [JURIST...

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News Aljazeera considering legal action against Bush after bombing memo
Aljazeera considering legal action against Bush after bombing memo
Kate Heneroty
November 29, 2005 09:09:00 am

Arab news channel Aljazeera is considering taking legal action against President George W. Bush, after disclosures that the US president allegedly suggested bombing the broadcaster's headquarters in Doha, Qatar, in the spring of 2004. Last week, two...

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News London police chief faces inquiry into handling of subway shooting
London police chief faces inquiry into handling of subway shooting
Kate Heneroty
November 28, 2005 10:35:00 am

Britain's Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has asked Home Secretary Charles Clarke to approve an investigation into the way Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair handled the July subway shooting of Brazilian...

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News Ex-Chinese minister charged with accepting bribes
Ex-Chinese minister charged with accepting bribes
Kate Heneroty
November 28, 2005 09:37:00 am

China's former minister of land and natural resources, Tian Fengshan , was charged Monday with accepting bribes of nearly 5 million yuan, or $619,000. Tian has been in custody since 2004 when he was removed from...

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News Australian senators call for changes to proposed anti-terror law
Australian senators call for changes to proposed anti-terror law
Kate Heneroty
November 28, 2005 09:05:00 am

Senators in the Parliament of Australia tabled a report Monday recommending changes to proposed anti-terror laws . The current proposal permits suspects to be detained up to 14 days without...

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News Austria joins investigations of covert CIA prisoner flights
Austria joins investigations of covert CIA prisoner flights
Kate Heneroty
November 24, 2005 11:45:00 am

Austria has joined several other countries investigating whether the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) conducted unauthorized flights through their airspace in 2003 while transporting terror detainees. An Austrian air force commander told state radio that a US...

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News Saddam lawyers to attend trial resumption despite security concerns
Saddam lawyers to attend trial resumption despite security concerns
Kate Heneroty
November 24, 2005 11:30:00 am

Defense lawyers in the Saddam Hussein trial announced Thursday that they will attend the next session of the trial scheduled for November 28 despite the recent assassination of two of their colleagues. The defense team had...

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Sirhan convicted of assassinating RFK

On April 17, 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy and sentenced to death. The sentence was later commuted to life in prison after the Supreme Court of California overturned the death penalty in the state.

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On April 17, 1982, the Constitution Act 1982 was proclaimed in Ottawa, establishing the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and terminating the British Parliament's power to amend the Canadian constitution.

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