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News Saddam Hussein hanging documented on video
Saddam Hussein hanging documented on video
Katerina Ossenova
December 30, 2006 09:59:00 am

Video and pictures released by Iraqi state television Saturday confirmed the execution of Saddam Hussein which took place around 6 AM Saturday local time (10 PM Friday ET) at an...

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News Bulgaria calls for speedy appeal in Libya AIDS trial
Bulgaria calls for speedy appeal in Libya AIDS trial
Katerina Ossenova
December 30, 2006 09:39:00 am

Bulgaria has urged a speedy appeal in the retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor accused of infecting over 400 Libyan patients, primarily children . The medics were convicted and sentenced ...

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News FCC approves $86B telecom merger
FCC approves $86B telecom merger
Katerina Ossenova
December 30, 2006 08:24:00 am

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the proposed $86 billion AT&amptT-BellSouth merger Friday, after several months delay. The telecom merger was approved 4-0 by the FCC commissioners, who found that "significant public interest...

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News Son of former Liberia president Taylor pleads not guilty to US torture charges
Son of former Liberia president Taylor pleads not guilty to US torture charges
Katerina Ossenova
December 7, 2006 04:51:00 pm

Charles McArthur Emmanuel, also known as Roy Belfast Jr. and Charles Taylor Jr., son of former Liberia president Charles Taylor, pleaded not guilty in a US district court in Florida Thursday to charges of committing...

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News Interim Fiji PM installed by military acknowledges coup ‘illegal’
Interim Fiji PM installed by military acknowledges coup ‘illegal’
Katerina Ossenova
December 7, 2006 02:20:00 pm

Interim Fiji Prime Minister Dr. Jona Senilagakali admitted Thursday that the military coup carried out in the country earlier this week is "illegal" but defended the takeover as necessary "to clean up the mess of a much...

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News New Libya AIDS trial evidence could exonerate foreign medics
New Libya AIDS trial evidence could exonerate foreign medics
Katerina Ossenova
December 7, 2006 11:00:00 am

Scientists produced new evidence Wednesday supporting the claim of innocence of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor accused of infecting over 400 Libyan patients, primarily children, with the HIV virus. An analysis published...

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FBI investigating media leaks of public corruption probes
Katerina Ossenova
December 7, 2006 10:12:00 am

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert S. Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday that the FBI has launched internal investigations into media leaks of details relating to several public corruption probes. The...

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News Bulgaria parliament votes to declassify Communist-era secret police files
Bulgaria parliament votes to declassify Communist-era secret police files
Katerina Ossenova
December 7, 2006 10:10:00 am

The Bulgarian Parliament voted Wednesday to open the archives of the nation's former communist secret service in order to disclose information about 29 categories of people who currently hold or have held positions of responsibility...

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News Senate Judiciary leaders introduce bill to restore habeas rights for detainees
Senate Judiciary leaders introduce bill to restore habeas rights for detainees
Katerina Ossenova
December 7, 2006 09:27:00 am

US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , outgoing chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee , and current ranking member of the committee Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) have introduced a bill which would restore...

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US urges Serbia to increase efforts to capture war crimes fugitives
Katerina Ossenova
November 30, 2006 10:43:00 am

Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina must arrest former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander Ratko Mladic , both wanted on war crimes charges, in order to be further...

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Eighteenth Amendment came into effect

On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution came into effect as scheduled one year after ratification, marking the beginning of Prohibition. Learn more about Temperance and Prohibition from Professor K. Austin Kerr of the Ohio State University Department of History.

English Parliament bans Roman Catholicism

On January 16, 1581, the English Parliament banned Roman Catholicism throughout the country during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. From that time on, Catholicism declined in England until the Catholic Emancipation of the late 18th century.

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