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News Ohio voter ID law temporarily suspended for absentee ballots
Ohio voter ID law temporarily suspended for absentee ballots
Kate Heneroty
October 27, 2006 07:53:00 am

US District Judge Algenon Marbley granted a temporary restraining order Thursday blocking enforcement of Ohio's voter ID law as it applies to absentee ballots because Ohio's 88 counties are applying...

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News Bank denies holding Pinochet gold stash
Bank denies holding Pinochet gold stash
Kate Heneroty
October 27, 2006 07:26:00 am

The Chilean office of the HSBC bank said Thursday that it has no accounts in the name of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and that bank documents detailing Pinochet's alleged $160 million gold fortune...

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News Bush asserts US right to protect interests in space
Bush asserts US right to protect interests in space
Kate Heneroty
October 20, 2006 08:37:00 am

US President George W. Bush has authorized the first changes to the US space policy in nearly 10 years by asserting authority to deny access to space to any adversary hostile to US interests. An unclassified version of the...

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News Texas death row inmate commits suicide hours before execution
Texas death row inmate commits suicide hours before execution
Kate Heneroty
October 20, 2006 08:21:00 am

Michael Dewayne Johnson, a death row inmate in Texas, committed suicide Thursday, 15-hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection . Johnson was convicted of murdering a gas station attendant in 1995, but maintained that...

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News Rice, Chinese foreign minister trade human rights concerns
Rice, Chinese foreign minister trade human rights concerns
Kate Heneroty
October 20, 2006 08:00:00 am

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that she raised concerns over China's human rights records during a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing that focused on North Korea and Iran's nuclear...

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News Federal judge orders Cheney visitor logs released in WashPost lobbyist probe
Federal judge orders Cheney visitor logs released in WashPost lobbyist probe
Kate Heneroty
October 20, 2006 07:28:00 am

US District Judge Ricardo Urbina has ordered the Secret Service to release visitor logs for the personal residence and office of Vice-President Dick Cheney . In his ruling Wednesday, Urbina gave the Bush Administration until...

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News UK House of Lords backs pardons for WWI soldiers executed for desertion
UK House of Lords backs pardons for WWI soldiers executed for desertion
Kate Heneroty
October 13, 2006 08:40:00 am

Members of Britain's House of Lords Thursday voiced their support for an amendment to the Armed Forces Bill that would pardon 306 World War I soldiers who were executed for various offenses...

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News Pinochet immunity lifted in another human rights case
Pinochet immunity lifted in another human rights case
Kate Heneroty
October 13, 2006 08:24:00 am

The Santiago Court of Appeals voted 16-2 Thursday to strip the immunity of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet , in a case involving the kidnapping and murder of a chemist who worked...

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News US rejects latest UK call to close Guantanamo Bay
US rejects latest UK call to close Guantanamo Bay
Kate Heneroty
October 13, 2006 08:01:00 am

The US State Department has rejected Britain's latest call for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention center, saying the prison would remain open as long as necessary and was needed to house "some very dangerous...

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News DOD documents show monitoring of anti-war groups for terror threats database
DOD documents show monitoring of anti-war groups for terror threats database
Kate Heneroty
October 13, 2006 07:35:00 am

The US Department of Defense (DOD) labeled anti-war activities as "potential terrorist activity" and monitored students, Quakers and other anti-war groups while collecting information for a domestic terror threats database, according to documents ...

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Peace treaty between Japan and 48 nations formally ended WWII

On April 28, 1952, a peace treaty between Japan and 48 nations took effect, formally ending World War II.

Review the terms of the San Francisco Treaty.

Former CIA official Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to spying for USSR

On April 28, 1994, Aldrich Ames, a former CIA official, pleaded guilty to passing US secrets to the USSR during the Cold War. Ames further confessed that he continued spying for Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Learn more about the case of Aldrich Ames from the FBI. Also read a CNN interview with Ames.

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