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News Leahy flags questions for Gonzales ahead of Senate panel hearing
Leahy flags questions for Gonzales ahead of Senate panel hearing
Michael Sung
July 19, 2007 08:02:00 am

US Senate Judiciary Chairman Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) on Wednesday took the unusual step of sending Attorney General Alberto Gonzales a letter listing 12 written questions that Leahy hopes Gonzales...

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News Thailand interim government lifts ban on registration of new political parties
Thailand interim government lifts ban on registration of new political parties
Michael Sung
July 18, 2007 03:21:00 pm

Thailand's interim-government lifted a ban on the registration of new political parties Wednesday, after the military-appointed National Legislative Assembly (NLA) approved legislation formally ending the ban instituted by the military after its September 2006 coup...

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News UK rejects foreign trial for Litvinenko poisoning suspect
UK rejects foreign trial for Litvinenko poisoning suspect
Michael Sung
July 18, 2007 02:52:00 pm

The UK Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday formally rejected any possible proposal to try Andrei Lugovoy for the poisoning-murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in a foreign court or...

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News Khmer Rouge tribunal prosecutors file first genocide cases
Khmer Rouge tribunal prosecutors file first genocide cases
Michael Sung
July 18, 2007 02:02:00 pm

Co-prosecutors for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) submitted their first introductory submission Wednesday, referring factual allegations of 25 instances of murder, torture, unlawful detention, forced labor, as...

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News US deportation of immigrants convicted of crimes ‘cruel’ and ‘senseless’: HRW
US deportation of immigrants convicted of crimes ‘cruel’ and ‘senseless’: HRW
Michael Sung
July 18, 2007 01:15:00 pm

The US policy of deporting legal immigrants convicted of crimes has separated an estimated 1.6 million children and adults and resulted in the permanent exile of permanent residents for even non-violent misdemeanor offenses, according to a report...

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UK Muhammad cartoons protesters sentenced
Michael Sung
July 18, 2007 11:54:00 am

A court sitting at London's Old Bailey on Wednesday sentenced Abdul Muhid, Umran Javed, and Mizanur Rahman to six-year prison terms for inciting murder and racial hatred during a February 2006 protest against the republication...

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News India anti-terror court sentences 3 to death for 1993 Mumbai bombings
India anti-terror court sentences 3 to death for 1993 Mumbai bombings
Michael Sung
July 18, 2007 11:32:00 am

An Indian TADA (Terrorist and Disruptive Activities) court on Wednesday sentenced three defendants to death for their roles in the deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings that killed 257 people and injured more than 700 in India's financial center....

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Taylor gets new defense team in war crimes trial
Michael Sung
July 18, 2007 10:54:00 am

The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) has obtained a new legal team for former Liberian President Charles Taylor , appointing on Tuesday Courtenay Griffiths, QC as lead counsel and...

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News Japan court nixes damages for WWII-era chemical weapons leak
Japan court nixes damages for WWII-era chemical weapons leak
Michael Sung
July 18, 2007 10:18:00 am

The Tokyo High Court on Tuesday reversed a 2003 ruling awarding 190 million yen (approximately $1.56 million) in compensation to 13 Chinese plaintiffs injured by World War II-era chemical weapons left in China by the Japanese military....

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Children of Holocaust survivors file class action lawsuit against Germany
Michael Sung
July 18, 2007 09:46:00 am

A group of children of Holocaust survivors have filed a class action lawsuit against the German government in an Israeli court, seeking German financial contribution to an annual $10 million therapy fund for approximately 15,000 to 20,000 so-called second-generation...

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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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