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News Mexican lawmakers approve postal absentee voting
Mexican lawmakers approve postal absentee voting
Kate Heneroty
June 29, 2005 07:32:00 am

Mexican lawmakers Tuesday approved a law permitting Mexicans living abroad to vote by mail in next July's presidential election. The lower house of Congress passed the measure 455 to 6, with 6 abstentions. The measure has already been passed...

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News UPDATE ~ Iran extends polling hours for presidential runoff vote for 5th time
UPDATE ~ Iran extends polling hours for presidential runoff vote for 5th time
Kate Heneroty
June 24, 2005 04:16:00 pm

Iran state television announced Friday that the Iranian Interior Ministry would extend the polling hours of the country's second presidential runoff election for the fifth time. The voting started at 9 AM local time and was scheduled to end...

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News Tight Iranian presidential vote marred by abuses
Tight Iranian presidential vote marred by abuses
Kate Heneroty
June 24, 2005 03:09:00 pm

Iranian Interior Ministry officials said Friday that intimidation and other abuses were impairing the presidential run-off election between relative moderate and former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and hard-liner and mayor of Tehran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . The...

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News Judge adds $130M to verdict against Morgan Stanley
Judge adds $130M to verdict against Morgan Stanley
Kate Heneroty
June 24, 2005 02:40:00 pm

A judge has added $130 million to the $1.45 billion verdict against Morgan Stanley a jury awarded last month to billionaire financier and Revlon Inc. chairman Ron Perelman. The judge took off about $84.5 million...

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News Amnesty presses US on Guantanamo access, commission
Amnesty presses US on Guantanamo access, commission
Kate Heneroty
June 24, 2005 02:27:00 pm

Amnesty International Friday called for the US to open detention centers around the world to UN experts, expressing "deep regret" at the reluctance to to allow human rights experts to visit with detainees. The organization again called...

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News Medical marijuana indictment unsealed
Medical marijuana indictment unsealed
Kate Heneroty
June 24, 2005 01:57:00 pm

Federal law enforcment authorities in San Francisco have unsealed an indictment charging 19 people with drug trafficking and using three San Francisco medical marijuana dispensaries as fronts for organized crime. In marijuana raids conducted earlier this week ...

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News Swiss court says arrested ex-Russian minister must stay in prison
Swiss court says arrested ex-Russian minister must stay in prison
Kate Heneroty
June 24, 2005 01:34:00 pm

A federal court in Lausanne, Switzerland ruled Friday that former Russian nuclear minister Yevgeny Adamov must remain in a Swiss prison pending hearings on an extradition request from Russia, overruling a decision two weeks ago...

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News Appeals court sides with EPA on relaxed anti-pollution plant upgrades
Appeals court sides with EPA on relaxed anti-pollution plant upgrades
Kate Heneroty
June 24, 2005 01:12:00 pm

A three judge panel of the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Friday rejected claims by thirteen states that the Bush administration's decision to let older power plants emit more pollution violates the Clean Air Act . The policy...

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News Evidence of Iraq reconstruction fraud handed over to federal prosecutors
Evidence of Iraq reconstruction fraud handed over to federal prosecutors
Kate Heneroty
June 22, 2005 10:03:00 am

The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction told a House subcommittee hearing focused on the US handling of the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) on Tuesday that evidence relating to finances used for reconstruction has...

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News Iraqi judge nominated for constitutional committee killed by gunmen
Iraqi judge nominated for constitutional committee killed by gunmen
Kate Heneroty
June 22, 2005 09:37:00 am

Jassim al-Issawi, a Sunni Muslim Iraqi judge whose name was at one point on the list to serve on a parliamentary committee to draft Iraq's new constitution was killed by gunmen in Baghdad on Wednesday. Al-Issawi,...

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Convention on Psychotropic Substances signed

On February 21, 1971, the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances was signed in Vienna, Austria. The Convention was promulgated to regulate psychotropic drugs, extending the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which applied to cannabis-, cocoa-, and opium-based drugs. In 1988, the UN Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances was promulgated to address international drug manufacture, possession, and distribution, primarily in organized crime. 175 nations are now parties to the Convention. Member nations have implemented the Convention in the form of domestic laws such as the US Psychotropic Substances Act, the UK Misuse of Drugs Act, and the Canadian Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

Former Nixon AG Mitchell sentenced to prison for Watergate

On February 21, 1975, former US Attorney General John Mitchell, Nixon Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman and domestic adviser John Ehrlichman were sentenced to prison terms of 2 1/2 to 8 years for obstructing justice in the Watergate affair.

Learn more about John Mitchell from the Washington Post.

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