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News Canada: same-sex marriages of non-residents not valid
Canada: same-sex marriages of non-residents not valid
Sung Un Kim
January 13, 2012 11:14:03 am

The Canadian government has given notice that the same-sex marriages performed in Canada between non-Canadian couples are invalid. This means that couples who came to Canada since 2004 to get married are not legally wed. The...

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News Israel Supreme Court upholds citizenship law
Israel Supreme Court upholds citizenship law
Sung Un Kim
January 13, 2012 10:27:51 am

The Israeli Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a law that prevents Palestinians who marry Israelis from obtaining Israeli citizenship. The court upheld the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law in a 6-5...

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News Turkish court accepts indictment against former president
Turkish court accepts indictment against former president
Sung Un Kim
January 10, 2012 01:42:23 pm

The Ankara 12th High Criminal Court accepted an indictment on Tuesday charging former Turkish president Kenan Evren with crimes against the state in relation to the 1980 coup. The ex-president was the head of the 1980 military...

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News Tunisia tries ex-president  in absentia for killings of protesters
Tunisia tries ex-president in absentia for killings of protesters
Sung Un Kim
January 3, 2012 02:25:06 pm

Former Tunisian president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali went on trial in absentia Tuesday before a military court. The trial will focus on who ordered snipers to kill 41 protesters during last year's Tunisian revolution...

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News Egypt prosecution begins case against ex-president Mubarak
Egypt prosecution begins case against ex-president Mubarak
Sung Un Kim
January 3, 2012 01:57:25 pm

The five-member prosecution team on Tuesday began presenting its case against former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak . Mubarak is facing charges of complicity by ordering the killings of at least 840 protesters ...

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News Philippines ex-president faces new charges
Philippines ex-president faces new charges
Sung Un Kim
December 29, 2011 02:26:48 pm

Philippine authorities filed a second criminal complaint against Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo , the former Philippine president who has been under hospital arrest for previous charges of corruption and electoral fraud. The second complaint alleges...

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News Bulgaria to ratify UN disabilities treaty
Bulgaria to ratify UN disabilities treaty
Sung Un Kim
December 25, 2011 04:21:07 pm

Bulgaria will ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the beginning of 2012, a member of the Bulgarian parliament announced on Sunday. According to Svetlana Angelova this ratification...

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News Iran rejects allegations of 9/11 involvement after US judgment implicates them
Iran rejects allegations of 9/11 involvement after US judgment implicates them
Sung Un Kim
December 25, 2011 03:34:15 pm

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast denied that Iran was actively involved in the 9/11 attacks after allegations in Thursday's default judgment [text, PDF; findings of facts and...

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News DOJ rejects new South Carolina voter ID law
DOJ rejects new South Carolina voter ID law
Sung Un Kim
December 24, 2011 12:10:26 pm

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Friday rejected a controversial South Carolina voter identification law . The DOJ has authority under the Voting Rights Act to screen new voter laws...

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News Michigan governor signs law banning benefits for public employees’ domestic partners
Michigan governor signs law banning benefits for public employees’ domestic partners
Sung Un Kim
December 24, 2011 11:10:39 am

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder Thursday signed into law a bill prohibiting public employers from providing medical or other fringe benefits to their employees' domestic partners. Snyder provided a signing statement noting...

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WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban

On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans. Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

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