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News Thailand election panel seeking fraud charges against former Thaksin ministers
Thailand election panel seeking fraud charges against former Thaksin ministers
Michael Sung
June 26, 2007 09:14:00 am

The Election Commission of Thailand is proceeding with criminal charges against two former government ministers under former Prime Minister Thaksin Sinawatra for their alleged role in committing election fraud during the...

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News Former US Army reserve officer sentenced for taking Iraq reconstruction bribes
Former US Army reserve officer sentenced for taking Iraq reconstruction bribes
Michael Sung
June 26, 2007 08:42:00 am

A federal judge from the US District Court for the District of Columbia sentenced Lt. Col. Bruce D. Hopfengardner, a US Army Reserve officer, to 21 months in prison Monday and imposed a fine of $144,500 for Hopfengardner's involvement...

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News Arrest warrant issued for Iraq cabinet minister in assassination plot
Arrest warrant issued for Iraq cabinet minister in assassination plot
Michael Sung
June 26, 2007 07:54:00 am

Iraqi security officials issued an arrest warrant and raided the home Tuesday of Culture Minister Asad Kamal al-Hashimi to investigate allegations that al-Hashimi masterminded an assassination attempt against a parliamentary candidate in February 2005. Al-Hashimi, a Sunni, is the...

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News Iran Nobel laureate claims government blocking release of US detainees
Iran Nobel laureate claims government blocking release of US detainees
Michael Sung
June 25, 2007 01:52:00 pm

Iranian 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi Monday accused the Iranian government of interfering in judicial affairs to prevent the release of two US clients currently detained...

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News Russia Supreme Court upholds Moscow ban on gay pride parade
Russia Supreme Court upholds Moscow ban on gay pride parade
Michael Sung
June 25, 2007 01:11:00 pm

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has upheld a 2006 Moscow ban on gay pride parades , dismissing an appeal by parade organizers . The decision handed down Friday upheld a Moscow...

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China loosens proposed restrictions on media during national emergencies
Michael Sung
June 25, 2007 12:02:00 pm

China's National People's Congress on Sunday revised a proposed law regulating media during national emergencies after delegates and local people's congresses criticized the law as improper. The proposal, first introduced last June, would have imposed...

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Declassified CIA documents detail past illegal operations
Michael Sung
June 25, 2007 09:46:00 am

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Monday declassified a 693-page file detailing the CIA's illegal activities compiled from a comprehensive internal investigation initiated in May, 1973 by then-CIA director James R. Schlesinger ...

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China legislature considers legal practice reforms
Michael Sung
June 25, 2007 09:15:00 am

China's National People's Congress Sunday began considering measures to codify legal ethics, improve criminal suspects' access to defense lawyers and evidence, and allowed experienced lawyers to establish individual private law firms. The reforms, which guarantee lawyers the...

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News Egypt sentences accused Israeli spy to life in prison
Egypt sentences accused Israeli spy to life in prison
Michael Sung
June 25, 2007 08:46:00 am

An Egyptian state security court convicted Muhammad Sayed Saber of spying for Israel's Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations (Mossad) Monday and sentenced the former Egyptian Atomic Energy Agency employee to life in prison. Two...

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Taylor continues boycott of war crimes trial
Michael Sung
June 25, 2007 08:01:00 am

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor continued his boycott Monday of the judicial proceedings against him during the second day of his trial at the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) [official...

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Cedar Revolution begins in Lebanon

On March 14, 2005, the Cedar Revolution began in Lebanon after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Led by the March Fourteenth Movement, street protests in the Cedar Revolution led to the resignation of the generally pro-Syrian government of Lebanon and the withdrawal of Syrian troops from the country.

Jack Ruby convicted for murder of JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald

On March 14, 1964, nightclub owner Jack Ruby was convicted of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, who had presumably assassinated President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Ruby was sentenced to death. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned Ruby's conviction in October 1966 and ordered a new trial citing improperly admitted testimony and an improper venue in the original proceeding, but Ruby died before the second trial could be convened. Review a transcript of Jack Ruby's July 1964 testimony before the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of President Kennedy. The Assistant Counsel for the Commission doing some of the questioning reported on the transcript is Arlen Specter, who would become a US Senator for Pennsylvania.

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