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News US review boards cleared 46 Guantanamo detainees for transfer home in 2006
US review boards cleared 46 Guantanamo detainees for transfer home in 2006
Kate Heneroty
December 25, 2006 12:43:00 pm

US Defense Department Administrative Review Boards (ARB) reviewing the status of prisoners held by the US at Guantanamo Bay cleared 46 detainees for transfer to the custody of their home countries, according to new...

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News UK crime rate rise detailed, prison population surge predicted in leaked report
UK crime rate rise detailed, prison population surge predicted in leaked report
Kate Heneroty
December 25, 2006 11:11:00 am

A recent UK Home Office report prepared for Prime Minister Tony Blair details the country's first increase in crime since the mid-1990s and predicts a massive 25% increase...

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News Georgia school district to remove evolution disclaimer stickers from textbooks
Georgia school district to remove evolution disclaimer stickers from textbooks
Kate Heneroty
December 20, 2006 10:50:00 am

The Cobb County School District on Tuesday agreed to remove anti-evolution stickers from its high school biology textbooks. In 2002, parents sued the suburban Atlanta school district claiming the stickers violated the separation between...

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News Dutch citizen to be extradited to US for Iraqi insurgency terror trial
Dutch citizen to be extradited to US for Iraqi insurgency terror trial
Kate Heneroty
December 20, 2006 10:29:00 am

A court in the Netherlands has approved the extradition of a Dutch national to the United States to face trial for conspiring to participate in insurgent attacks on US troops in the Iraqi city of Fallujah...

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News Guantanamo combatant status reviews ‘show trials’: report
Guantanamo combatant status reviews ‘show trials’: report
Kate Heneroty
November 17, 2006 11:40:00 am

US military Combatant Status Review Tribunals do not offer detainees at Guantanamo Bay an adequate opportunity to contest the accusations against them or to object to their status as enemy combatants ,...

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News Bush tells Australia PM Hicks to be tried
Bush tells Australia PM Hicks to be tried
Kate Heneroty
November 17, 2006 08:11:00 am

US President George W. Bush assured Australian Prime Minister John Howard Friday that Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks would be brought to trial, but refused to give a timetable for the trial....

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News Federal judge blocks California city anti-immigrant ordinance
Federal judge blocks California city anti-immigrant ordinance
Kate Heneroty
November 17, 2006 07:46:00 am

US District Judge John Houston Thursday temporarily stayed enforcement of an ordinance passed by the city of Escondido, California which would punish landlords for renting to illegal immigrants . The ordinance requires landlords...

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News US Marine sentenced to 21 months in Hamdania Iraqi civilian murder case
US Marine sentenced to 21 months in Hamdania Iraqi civilian murder case
Kate Heneroty
November 17, 2006 07:22:00 am

US Marine Lance Cpl. Tyler A. Jackson was sentenced to 21 months in military custody Thursday for his participation in the kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi man in Hamdania [USMC timeline; JURIST...

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News Indonesia seeks jail term for Newmont executive in criminal pollution trial
Indonesia seeks jail term for Newmont executive in criminal pollution trial
Kate Heneroty
November 10, 2006 08:53:00 am

Indonesian prosecutors requested a three-year prison term Friday for American Richard Ness , the regional chief executive of Denver-based Newmont Mining Corporation , an American gold-mining company with a subsidiary in Indonesia. Ness and...

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News Egypt president cautions against Saddam execution
Egypt president cautions against Saddam execution
Kate Heneroty
November 10, 2006 08:27:00 am

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak spoke out against the pending execution of Saddam Hussein Thursday, saying it could push Iraq into even greater violence. Mubarak, believed to share the views of many Arab...

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Pope Innocent VIII authorizes Germany witchcraft prosecutions

Pope Innocent VIII issued the papal bull Summis desiderantes affectibus on December 5, 1484, authorizing Dominican friars and witch hunters Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger to prosecute witchcraft in Germany. The prosecutions would later give rise to the 1486 publication of Kramer and Sprenger's Malleus Malificarum ("Hammer of the Witches") which prescribed torture as a way to coerce confessions out of suspected witches. Historians view the text as having promoted a misogynistic witch craze in late medieval Europe. Read the full papal bull.

21st Amendment ended Prohibition

On December 5, 1933, the 21st Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, ending the ban on the legal sale and importation of alcohol that had been introduced in 1919 by the 18th Amendment. Learn how the Voluntary Committee of Lawyers helped bring about Prohibition's repeal.

Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria and South Yemen

On December 5, 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat broke off diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria and South Yemen in response to the Declaration of Tripoli, which imposed sanctions on Eygpt. These hardline Arab nations had promulgated the Declaration in order to punish Egypt for establishing diplomatic relations with Israel. In 1979, Egypt signed a formal peace treaty with Israel, leading to Sadat's assassination in 1981. Learn more from the BBC.

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