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News Hundreds competing to be Saddam’s executioner: NYT
Hundreds competing to be Saddam’s executioner: NYT
Melissa Bancroft
December 9, 2006 11:49:00 am

Hundreds of people have lobbied Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office for the position of hangman for Saddam Hussein if he is actually executed, according to the New York Times Saturday. A top aide to Maliki...

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News Mexico ex-president charged with genocide misses court-ordered tests
Mexico ex-president charged with genocide misses court-ordered tests
Melissa Bancroft
December 9, 2006 11:04:00 am

Mexican ex-president Luis Echeverria was found unable to undergo a psychological examination Friday due to his deteriorating health, according to his lawyer. The former president, who held office from 1970 to 1976, has...

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News Senate passes anti-pretexting legislation in wake of HP scandal
Senate passes anti-pretexting legislation in wake of HP scandal
Melissa Bancroft
December 9, 2006 10:06:00 am

The US Senate passed a bill by voice vote Friday that would make obtaining phone records through fraud or lying a criminal act. People found guilty of so-called "pretexting" would face fines and imprisonment...

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News EU justice ministers agree to civil liberties agency of limited scope
EU justice ministers agree to civil liberties agency of limited scope
Melissa Bancroft
December 5, 2006 07:57:00 am

The European Union announced a provisional deal Monday for the establishment of an EU agency on fundamental rights, which would build upon the European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia [official...

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News ICTR admits French report on Rwandan genocide into evidence
ICTR admits French report on Rwandan genocide into evidence
Melissa Bancroft
December 5, 2006 06:11:00 am

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) accepted into evidence Monday a controversial report on the events leading up to the 1994 Rwandan genocide written by French anti-terrorism judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere...

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News Australia parliament panel calls for independent anti-terror laws review
Australia parliament panel calls for independent anti-terror laws review
Melissa Bancroft
December 4, 2006 07:05:00 pm

Australia's Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security has recommended the appointment of an independent reviewer to oversee the nation's counter-terrorism laws . In a report Monday reviewing the country's security...

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News Turkey condemns Argentina Armenian genocide bill
Turkey condemns Argentina Armenian genocide bill
Melissa Bancroft
December 3, 2006 02:11:00 pm

The government of Turkey has officially condemned an Argentinean bill that refers to the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey around the time of World War I as genocide and establishes a day of annual commemoration on...

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News High court refuses to block probe access to NYT reporters’  phone records
High court refuses to block probe access to NYT reporters’ phone records
Melissa Bancroft
November 27, 2006 08:01:00 pm

The US Supreme Court announced in a one line order Monday that it would not grant a temporary stay in a case involving federal investigators' access to the phone records of two New York Times...

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News Congo high court dismisses presidential election challenge
Congo high court dismisses presidential election challenge
Melissa Bancroft
November 27, 2006 07:21:00 pm

The Supreme Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo in Kinshasa Monday rejected a legal challenge by Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba to the official results of last month's...

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News France denies Rwanda arrest warrants politically motivated
France denies Rwanda arrest warrants politically motivated
Melissa Bancroft
November 26, 2006 02:51:00 pm

French foreign minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said Sunday that the issuance of arrest warrants for nine senior Rwandan government officials relating to the 1994 plane crash of President Juvenal Habyariman was simply a judicial act by...

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Trial of former-Yugoslavia leader Slobodan Milošević begins

On February 12, 2002, the trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of Yugoslavia, began at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. Milošević was indicted on sixty-six counts of war crimes allegedly perpetrated during the Balkan civil wars of the 1990s, including allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity. The trial ended without a verdict, when Milosevic died of a heart attack during the proceedings. Read ICTY documents from the trial of Slobodan Milošević.

Congress passed Fugitive Slave Law

On February 12, 1793, the US Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, prohibiting anyone from assisting a runaway slave.

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