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News EU parliament head assails Myanmar junta for sticking to referendum after cyclone
EU parliament head assails Myanmar junta for sticking to referendum after cyclone
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 7, 2008 05:13:00 pm

European Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering Wednesday faulted the ruling junta of Myanmar for saying it would go ahead with a scheduled May 10 referendum on a draft constitution in the aftermath of a devastating...

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News UK appeals court blocks bid to keep Iran opposition group on terror list
UK appeals court blocks bid to keep Iran opposition group on terror list
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 7, 2008 04:35:00 pm

The Court of Appeal in London Wednesday rejected a government bid to challenge an order by the Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission to remove an Iranian opposition group from its blacklist of terror organizations. The Court...

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News First Guantanamo detainee hearing in new court complex delayed by technical glitch
First Guantanamo detainee hearing in new court complex delayed by technical glitch
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 7, 2008 03:05:00 pm

A technical problem delayed the start of the arraignment hearing for Yemeni Guantanamo detainee Ali Hamza Ahman Sulayman al-Bahlul Wednesday when a courtroom sound feed in the brand new Guantanamo legal compound cut off for reporters in the spectator...

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News Ex-US Iraq commander says in new book that military tortured, killed detainees
Ex-US Iraq commander says in new book that military tortured, killed detainees
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 7, 2008 02:12:00 pm

Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez , a former US commanding general in Iraq, said in a new book published Tuesday that there is "irrefutable evidence" that the US military tortured and killed detainees in Afghanistan at the end of...

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News Guantanamo lawyers claim US government eavesdropped on client meetings
Guantanamo lawyers claim US government eavesdropped on client meetings
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 7, 2008 12:58:00 pm

Lawyers for Guantanamo detainees claim that the US government of has eavesdropped on conversations with their clients , according to court papers filed Tuesday by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) . The filing came as...

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News Federal agents raid offices of OSC head in probe of alleged evidence destruction
Federal agents raid offices of OSC head in probe of alleged evidence destruction
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 7, 2008 12:18:00 pm

Agents from the White House Office of Personnel Management and the FBI Tuesday searched the home and office of US Office of Special Counsel (OSC) head Scott J. Bloch as part of an investigation into...

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News Georgia conducts first execution since US Supreme Court death penalty ruling
Georgia conducts first execution since US Supreme Court death penalty ruling
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 7, 2008 08:00:00 am

Georgia Tuesday evening carried out the first execution in the United States since the US Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Kentucky's lethal injection protocol and ended a de facto national moratorium on the death penalty. Both...

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News 9/11 suspects unlikely to go to trial before end of Bush presidency: officials
9/11 suspects unlikely to go to trial before end of Bush presidency: officials
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 6, 2008 04:42:00 pm

Six Guantanamo Bay detainees charged in connection with the Sept.11, 2001 terrorist attacks will probably not be put on trial by the US military before the end of the Bush administration...

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News Bangladesh ex-PM Zia charged with corruption
Bangladesh ex-PM Zia charged with corruption
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 6, 2008 04:04:00 pm

Bangladesh's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed formal charges against former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia , officials said Tuesday. Zia and 10 other officials are accused of corruption and abuse of power for an alleged...

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News Guantanamo detainee sues UK for withholding ‘torture’ evidence
Guantanamo detainee sues UK for withholding ‘torture’ evidence
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 6, 2008 03:39:00 pm

A British resident still detained at Guantanamo Bay filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the UK government alleging that the UK Foreign Office has refused to turn over evidence necessary to his defense before a US military...

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LA Riots break out following beating of Rodney King

Riots that would grip the city of Los Angeles, California for six days broke out on April 29, 1992, after LAPD officers who beat Rodney King while being filmed were acquitted by a jury. The verdict ignited a powder keg of discontent about police discrimination against LA's Black community. The riots would result in more than 60 deaths and $1 billion in property damage. Learn more about the LA Riots from NPR.

Chemical Weapons Convention goes into force

On April 29, 1997, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction went into force. The Convention prohibits member nations from creating and deploying chemical weapons and is overseen by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

Oliver Ellsworth born

Oliver Ellsworth, third Chief Justice of the United States and primary author of the Judiciary Act of 1789 that established the federal court system, was born in Windsor, Connecticut, on April 29, 1745.

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