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News Saddam lawyers claim access to client denied
Saddam lawyers claim access to client denied
Katerina Ossenova
February 5, 2006 03:17:00 pm

Khalil Dulaimi , chief defense lawyer for deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein , said Sunday he had been notified by "the Americans" that defense lawyers for Hussein and his co-defendants would not be allowed access...

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News Interpol issues global alert for escaped USS Cole bomber after Yemen prison break
Interpol issues global alert for escaped USS Cole bomber after Yemen prison break
Katerina Ossenova
February 5, 2006 03:14:00 pm

Interpol Sunday issued an urgent global security alert following the escape from a prison in Yemen of 23 individuals, some of them suspected Al Qaeda members. Among the fugitives is Jamal Ahmed Badawi...

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News DOJ official: President may have power to order terror suspects killed in US
DOJ official: President may have power to order terror suspects killed in US
Katerina Ossenova
February 5, 2006 02:39:00 pm

Steven Bradbury , acting head of the US Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel , told Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) in a closed Senate Intelligence Committee meeting last week that the president may...

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News French government reports 2005 decline in racial, religious attacks
French government reports 2005 decline in racial, religious attacks
Katerina Ossenova
January 30, 2006 06:50:00 pm

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced Monday that the number of anti-Semitic and racist acts reported in France dropped significantly in 2005. Anti-Semitic acts (defined as violence or threats...

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News UPDATE ~ Pinochet daughter released on bail
UPDATE ~ Pinochet daughter released on bail
Katerina Ossenova
January 30, 2006 06:29:00 pm

Lucia Pinochet Hiriart, the eldest daughter of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet , was released on bail Monday after appearing in a Santiago appeals court two days after she returned to Chile to...

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News GOP senator questions legality of domestic surveillance program
GOP senator questions legality of domestic surveillance program
Katerina Ossenova
January 29, 2006 05:05:00 pm

Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) , a Republican member of the US Senate Intelligence Committee , Sunday questioned the legitimacy of the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program , casting doubt on its legality in the absence...

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News UK anti-terror law reviewer says national ID cards of limited value
UK anti-terror law reviewer says national ID cards of limited value
Katerina Ossenova
January 29, 2006 04:32:00 pm

The UK plan for national identification cards received another setback Sunday when Lord Carlile , the Liberal Democrat peer appointed by the British government as an independent reviewer of its anti-terror laws, said...

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News Guantanamo hunger strikers reported near death
Guantanamo hunger strikers reported near death
Katerina Ossenova
January 29, 2006 04:05:00 pm

Several detainees involved in the continuing Guantanamo Bay hunger strikes are close to death, according to lawyers acting for the detainees. Despite force-feedings by the US military, there is concern for two emaciated Yemenis and a...

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News US Army issues new death penalty regulations
US Army issues new death penalty regulations
Katerina Ossenova
January 23, 2006 08:15:00 pm

The US Army has issued new regulations governing the military death penalty . What the Army is calling a "major revision", however, raises questions whether the military is considering its first execution since 1961, when Army...

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News Libby defense team requests use of classified evidence
Libby defense team requests use of classified evidence
Katerina Ossenova
January 23, 2006 08:00:00 pm

Defense lawyers for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , the former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney indicted last October in the CIA leak case , petitioned Monday to use classified evidence in his...

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UK parliament passed Statute of Westminster

On December 3, 1931, the UK Parliament passed the Statute of Westminster, under which the British dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Irish Free State and Newfoundland gained complete legislative independence; the statute received royal assent and came into force on December 11.

President Theodore Roosevelt calls for dissolution of trusts

On December 3, 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt called for the dissolution of business trusts in his first State of the Union address. Roosevelt would go on to dissolve 44 trusts during his administration, earning the nickname "Trust Buster".
Learn more about the history of U.S. antitrust law.

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