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News New Haiti president says constitution allows return of ousted Aristide
New Haiti president says constitution allows return of ousted Aristide
Krystal MacIntyre
February 22, 2006 02:25:00 pm

New Haitian president Rene Preval said Wednesday that ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide has a legal right to re-enter the country. In his first news conference since his victory in the February 2...

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News Rhode Island jury finds lead paint manufacturers liable for public nuisance
Rhode Island jury finds lead paint manufacturers liable for public nuisance
Krystal MacIntyre
February 22, 2006 01:50:00 pm

A Rhode Island jury Wednesday found three former lead paint manufacturers responsible for creating a public nuisance that had contaminated thousands of homes and continues to poison children. The jury found Sherwin Williams, NL Industries Inc. [corporate...

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News Bush administration says press may be prosecuted for publishing classified documents
Bush administration says press may be prosecuted for publishing classified documents
Krystal MacIntyre
February 22, 2006 01:15:00 pm

The Bush administration has indicated that journalists can be prosecuted for receiving or publishing classified information under the United States Espionage Act . US Department of Justice lawyers made the assertion in a January...

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News Australia oil-for-food inquiry to probe government knowledge of AWB bribes
Australia oil-for-food inquiry to probe government knowledge of AWB bribes
Krystal MacIntyre
February 21, 2006 12:09:00 pm

The Australian judicial inquiry looking into allegations that leading Australian wheat exporter Australian Wheat Board (AWB) provided over $200 million in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's former regime as part of the now-defunct...

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News UK historian to appeal jail sentence for denying Holocaust
UK historian to appeal jail sentence for denying Holocaust
Krystal MacIntyre
February 21, 2006 11:36:00 am

British historian David Irving has said he will appeal the three-year sentence he received after pleading guilty Monday to charges of denying the Holocaust . Irving was charged in connection to two...

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News Eleven sentenced to death for assassination attempt on Pakistan general
Eleven sentenced to death for assassination attempt on Pakistan general
Krystal MacIntyre
February 21, 2006 10:27:00 am

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Tuesday sentenced to death eleven members of Jund Allah, an Islam group linked to al Qaeda , after they were convicted of killing ten people in an attack...

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News Haiti electoral council chief flees country after disputed election
Haiti electoral council chief flees country after disputed election
Krystal MacIntyre
February 21, 2006 10:16:00 am

Jacques Bernard, head of Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council , has fled the country in fear of his life two weeks after heavily disputed elections returned President Rene Preval to office. Preval opponents threatened Bernard's...

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News UK peace protesters ask law lords to allow Iraq war illegality defense
UK peace protesters ask law lords to allow Iraq war illegality defense
Krystal MacIntyre
February 21, 2006 07:10:00 am

Lawyers asked the UK law lords on Monday to allow anti-war activists convicted on trespassing charges related to protests of the Iraq war to argue in their defense that the war was illegal. Fourteen Greenpeace protesters were convicted...

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News Japan posting English translations of business laws to avoid misinterpretation
Japan posting English translations of business laws to avoid misinterpretation
Krystal MacIntyre
February 20, 2006 02:48:00 pm

The Japanese government is planning to put English translations of its business-related laws on the internet in order to avoid their misinterpretation by foreign companies. Right now there are no official translations, although unofficial private English translations of multiple...

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US scientists group slams intelligent design legislation
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February 20, 2006 02:01:00 pm

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) , the world's largest general scientific society, has denounced legislation and policies that "undermine evolution" and "deprive students of the education they need to be...

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Catalonia declares independence from Spain

The Parliament of Catalonia declared independence from Spain in a failed bid for sovereignty on October 27, 2017. The declaration followed an independence referendum, boycotted by pro-union residents, that saw 92% of voters choose independence. The declaration was subsequently declared illegal by Spain's Supreme Court. Many Catalan independence figures such as then-Catalan President Carles Puigdemont were criminally charged as a result of their involvement in the independence attempt. Read the Catalan Declaration of Independence.

First of the Federalist Papers published

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