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News DC Circuit rules prosecutors cannot subpoena House ethics committee testimony
DC Circuit rules prosecutors cannot subpoena House ethics committee testimony
Matt Glenn
July 11, 2009 01:02:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit announced Thursday that prosecutors cannot subpoena statements made by a former congressman to the US House of Representatives Ethics Committee , unsealing a...

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News Sweden will be first EU nation to extradite Rwandan facing genocide charges
Sweden will be first EU nation to extradite Rwandan facing genocide charges
Matt Glenn
July 10, 2009 07:42:00 am

Sweden will become the first European Union (EU) nation to extradite a Rwandan to his native country so that he can stand trial for his alleged role in Rwanda's 1994 genocide , Swedish Justice Minister Beatrice Ask [official...

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News UK embassy employee in Tehran charged: lawyer
UK embassy employee in Tehran charged: lawyer
Matt Glenn
July 4, 2009 02:04:00 pm

Hossein Rassam, a chief political analyst working for the British Embassy in Iran , has been charged with "acting against the national security," his lawyer said Saturday. Rassam was one of nine Iranian employees of the British Embassy...

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News AU  leaders agree not to cooperate with Sudan president arrest warrant
AU leaders agree not to cooperate with Sudan president arrest warrant
Matt Glenn
July 4, 2009 01:00:00 pm

The African Union (AU) will not cooperate with International Criminal Court (ICC) efforts to extradite Sudan President Omar al-Bashir , the AU announced Friday during an AU summit in...

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News Federal judge sets Blagojevich trial for June 2010
Federal judge sets Blagojevich trial for June 2010
Matt Glenn
June 26, 2009 08:27:00 am

A judge in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Thursday set the corruption trial of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich for June 3, 2010. Lawyers for two aids indicted...

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News Berezovsky found guilty of fraud by Russia court
Berezovsky found guilty of fraud by Russia court
Matt Glenn
June 26, 2009 07:28:00 am

Self-exiled Russian business tycoon Boris Berezovsky was found guilty of fraud in absentia Thursday by a Moscow regional court. The court found that Berezovsky and his business associate Yuli Dubov embezzled...

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News House denies Guantanamo closure funds, restricts detainee transfers
House denies Guantanamo closure funds, restricts detainee transfers
Matt Glenn
June 19, 2009 07:57:00 am

The US House of Representatives passed a spending bill Thursday that denied the Obama administration's request for $60 million to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and placed limits on the government's ability...

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News Former HealthSouth CEO found liable for $2.88 billion
Former HealthSouth CEO found liable for $2.88 billion
Matt Glenn
June 19, 2009 06:53:00 am

Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy was found liable to the company's shareholders for fraud Thursday by Judge Allwin Horn of Alabama's 10th Judicial District and ordered to...

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News Federal judge refuses to dismiss torture lawsuit against Bush administration lawyer
Federal judge refuses to dismiss torture lawsuit against Bush administration lawyer
Matt Glenn
June 13, 2009 01:02:00 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Friday that a torture lawsuit against former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo can proceed. Judge Jeffrey White refused...

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News Netherlands terror prosecutions rarely result in convictions: report
Netherlands terror prosecutions rarely result in convictions: report
Matt Glenn
June 12, 2009 08:25:00 am

Of 113 terrorism cases in the Netherlands between September 11, 2001 and 2008, only 27 have led to convictions according to a report Thursday in the NRC Handelsblad . The report states that...

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US and Japan sign Kanagwa Treaty

On March 31, 1854, US Commodore Matthew Perry and representatives of the Japanese government signed the Convention of Kanagawa. The terms of the treaty marked the end of Japan's 500 years of self-imposed isolation by opening the Ports of Shimoda and Hakodate. Four years later, Japanese-American relations were further expanded by the Treaty of Amity and Commerce (Harris Treaty), which opened more Japanese ports to US trade and set up a system of extraterritoriality for Americans in Japan.

Spanish royal decree ordered expulsion of Jews

On March 31, 1492, King Ferdinand of Spain signed a decree expelling Jews from his kingdom. Read a contemporary account of the expulsion, originally written in Hebrew by an Italian Jew in 1495.

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