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News Iraq court sentences 16 to death
Iraq court sentences 16 to death
Leslie Schulman
June 21, 2007 07:15:00 pm

The Iraq Central Criminal Court handed down 16 death sentences Thursday, the latest such sentences in a country with the fourth highest execution rate in the world . Two of those sentenced were non-Iraqi Arabs arrested...

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News UN war crimes tribunals call for cooperation in catching fugitives
UN war crimes tribunals call for cooperation in catching fugitives
Leslie Schulman
June 18, 2007 08:00:00 pm

Senior UN officials from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Monday urged countries to cooperate in the capture of numerous fugitives who remain at...

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News UN Hariri panel to probe killing of Lebanon MP
UN Hariri panel to probe killing of Lebanon MP
Leslie Schulman
June 18, 2007 07:08:00 pm

The UN Security Council said Monday it has approved a request by Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to aid his country in the investigation of the murder of anti-Syrian legislator Walid Eido [BBC...

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News New Jersey high court limits scope of eminent domain
New Jersey high court limits scope of eminent domain
Leslie Schulman
June 13, 2007 08:36:00 pm

The New Jersey Supreme Court Wednesday ruled that for the state to constitutionally take private property, it must show that the property is blighted. The high court's unanimous ruling eliminates the use of eminent domain...

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News Unclear privacy laws hinder violence prevention: US government report
Unclear privacy laws hinder violence prevention: US government report
Leslie Schulman
June 13, 2007 08:07:00 pm

A joint report delivered to President George W. Bush Wednesday by the US Department of Health and Human Services, the US Department of Education, and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on the ability of...

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News Congress subpoenas former White House counsel Miers in US Attorney firing probe
Congress subpoenas former White House counsel Miers in US Attorney firing probe
Leslie Schulman
June 13, 2007 07:15:00 pm

Congressional investigators Wednesday issued subpoenas for former White House counsel Harriet Miers and former White House Political Director Sara Taylor in their ongoing probe of the US Attorney firing scandal [JURIST news...

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News Ethiopia appeal of former dictator Mengistu adjourned to July
Ethiopia appeal of former dictator Mengistu adjourned to July
Leslie Schulman
June 12, 2007 08:19:00 pm

Appeal proceedings in the case of former Ethiopian President Mengistu Haile Mariam have been adjourned until July 3, following the orders of a judge on Tuesday. Mengistu, who received a life sentence in absentia...

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News ICTR seeks return of genocide case to Rwanda court after death penalty abolition
ICTR seeks return of genocide case to Rwanda court after death penalty abolition
Leslie Schulman
June 12, 2007 07:34:00 pm

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) requested Monday that the case against Fulgence Kayishema , who was indicted in absentia in 2001 for his involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide , be...

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News Taylor trial will continue as scheduled despite boycott:  prosecutor
Taylor trial will continue as scheduled despite boycott: prosecutor
Leslie Schulman
June 12, 2007 01:06:00 pm

The trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor will continue as scheduled, despite Taylor's boycott of the trial's opening last week, according to Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) chief prosecutor Stephen...

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News Detained Iranian-American scholar denied right to counsel:  Ebadi
Detained Iranian-American scholar denied right to counsel: Ebadi
Leslie Schulman
June 11, 2007 08:34:00 pm

Iranian-American scholar Dr. Haleh Esfandiari , currently detained by the Iranian government, is being denied access to counsel, according to her lawyer, 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi . Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program...

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South Africa born

On May 31, 1910, the Union of South Africa was created. Exactly fifty-one years later in 1961, the Republic of South Africa was born. Learn more about the history of South Africa from the country's government.

Tulsa race riot began

On May 31, 1921, the Tulsa race riot was touched off after a black elevator operator was alleged to have attacked a white woman in an elevator in downtown Tulsa. Armed whites attacked, burned and looted the local black business community of Greenwood in violence that killed more than 300 people and destroyed more than 1200 homes. Learn more about the Tulsa race riot. A special commission set up by the Oklahoma legislature decades afterward submitted this report [PDF] on the riot in 2001.

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