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News EU denounces acquittal of Libyan police alleged to have tortured foreign medics
EU denounces acquittal of Libyan police alleged to have tortured foreign medics
Kate Heneroty
June 8, 2005 10:04:00 am

EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner has called Tuesday's acquittal of 10 Libyan police officers charged with torturing six foreign medics - five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor - into confessions in an AIDS...

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News Marines detain American contractors in Iraq for firing on troops
Marines detain American contractors in Iraq for firing on troops
Kate Heneroty
June 8, 2005 08:47:00 am

US Marines detained 19 employees of North Carolina-based Zapata Engineering for 3 days, after reportedly witnessing the contractors open fire on troops and civilians in Iraq, the US military announced Tuesday. The employees, including 16 Americans, most...

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News Cambodian PM opposes private funds for Khmer Rouge genocide trial
Cambodian PM opposes private funds for Khmer Rouge genocide trial
Kate Heneroty
June 8, 2005 08:24:00 am

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen , a former Khmer Rouge soldier, responded to an opposition proposal Wednesday by saying that the families of the 1.7 million victims of the hardline communist Khmer Rouge regime that ruled...

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News Hague war crimes court will miss case wrapup deadline
Hague war crimes court will miss case wrapup deadline
Kate Heneroty
June 8, 2005 07:54:00 am

Theodor Meron , president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia said Tuesday that the tribunal will miss a 2008 trial completion date set by the UN Security Council, extending at least into 2009. Meron...

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News US to end campaign to replace UN nuclear chief
US to end campaign to replace UN nuclear chief
Kate Heneroty
June 8, 2005 07:28:00 am

The US will end its lone opposition to Mohamed ElBaradei , Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Wednesday in exchange for concessions involving Iran and the fight against nuclear arms proliferation. ElBaradei is arriving...

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News Kyrgyzstan Supreme Court clash ends occupation
Kyrgyzstan Supreme Court clash ends occupation
Kate Heneroty
June 1, 2005 11:03:00 am

Protestors clashed with 200 members of rival groups in front of the Kyrgyzstan Supreme Court on Wednesday, throwing sticks and flogging each other with horse-whips. The instigators, who arrived in buses from the North, stormed the court to evict...

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News Europe braces for Dutch No vote on EU Constitution
Europe braces for Dutch No vote on EU Constitution
Kate Heneroty
June 1, 2005 10:11:00 am

Citizens of the Netherlands went to the polls Wednesday to vote on whether to accept the proposed European Constitution . Recent opinion surveys say that nearly 60% of Dutch voters plan to reject the document, citing concerns such as...

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News China cracks down on lawyers, journalists
China cracks down on lawyers, journalists
Kate Heneroty
June 1, 2005 09:31:00 am

Chinese authorities have detained Zhu Jiuhi, a Beijing lawyer and activist for the development of rule of law after he attempted to file a landmark civil suit against the provincial government and lower-level governments for confiscating private investors' oil...

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News Libya court postpones ruling on medics accused of infecting children with HIV
Libya court postpones ruling on medics accused of infecting children with HIV
Kate Heneroty
June 1, 2005 08:37:00 am

The Libyan Supreme Court has postponed until November 15 a ruling on the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who were convicted in May 2004 of purposely infecting 400 children with the virus that...

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China threatens to veto "dangerous" resolution expanding UN Security Council
Kate Heneroty
June 1, 2005 07:31:00 am

Chinese UN Ambassador Wang Guangya has said China is opposed to a recently-introduced resolution that would expand the UN Security Council to include Brazil, Germany, India and Japan. In an interview with AP...

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West Germany becomes a sovereign nation

On May 5, 1955, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) became a fully sovereign nation. Four days later on May 9, West Germany joined NATO. West Germany then became a founding member of the European Economic Community in 1958. Read the German Basic Law (Grundgesetz), which served as the constitution of West Germany and became the governing document of the reunited Germany in 1990.

Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in TN public schools

On May 5, 1925, high school science teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in the Tennessee public schools. Learn more about the Scopes Monkey Trial.

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