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News Egypt to lift emergency laws by mid-2008: judiciary minister
Egypt to lift emergency laws by mid-2008: judiciary minister
Natalie Hrubos
August 5, 2007 01:46:00 pm

Egypt's Judicial Affairs Minister Mufid Shehab said Saturday that the country will lift its 25-year-old state of emergency by June 2008, according to state news agency Mena. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak promised in 2005 and...

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News Leahy gives Gonzales one week to resolve inconsistent testimony
Leahy gives Gonzales one week to resolve inconsistent testimony
Natalie Hrubos
July 29, 2007 03:43:00 pm

US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said Sunday that US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales may be the subject of a perjury investigation if he does not clear up concerns regarding the truthfulness...

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News Bush urges Congress to update surveillance law
Bush urges Congress to update surveillance law
Natalie Hrubos
July 29, 2007 02:39:00 pm

US President George W. Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address that he wants to modernize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to meet threats from terrorists who can now use...

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News Former Bangladesh lawmaker gets 20 years in jail for corruption
Former Bangladesh lawmaker gets 20 years in jail for corruption
Natalie Hrubos
July 22, 2007 05:33:00 pm

A judge in Bangladesh sentenced Wadud Bhuiyan, a former lawmaker in the country, to 20 years in jail Sunday for acquiring land and property through corruption and abuse of power. The judge also ordered Bhuiyan, a...

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News Former Iraq deputy PM admitted to US military hospital after fainting in custody
Former Iraq deputy PM admitted to US military hospital after fainting in custody
Natalie Hrubos
July 22, 2007 04:58:00 pm

A lawyer for former Saddam Hussein-era deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz said Saturday that Aziz was taken to a US military hospital in Balad this week after he fainted several times in the US-run...

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News Halliburton subcontractor executive pleads guilty in Iraq fraud case
Halliburton subcontractor executive pleads guilty in Iraq fraud case
Natalie Hrubos
July 22, 2007 04:33:00 pm

Former Eagle Global Logistics (EGL) executive Kevin Andre Smoot pleaded guilty Friday in US District Court to making a false statement and violating the Anti-Kickback Act . Last year, EGL, a Houston-based company hired by Halliburton subsidiary...

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News UN Lockerbie trial observer urges probe of UK-US Pan Am 103 investigation
UN Lockerbie trial observer urges probe of UK-US Pan Am 103 investigation
Natalie Hrubos
July 9, 2007 06:38:00 am

The United Nations observer overseeing the Lockerbie trial, Dr. Hans Koechler, has called for a probe into UK and US handling of the investigation of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 over the Scottish village of...

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News Israel cabinet approves release of 250 Palestinian prisoners
Israel cabinet approves release of 250 Palestinian prisoners
Natalie Hrubos
July 8, 2007 01:11:00 pm

The Israeli cabinet Sunday approved the release of 250 Palestinian prisoners. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed to the release at a June 25 summit with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in an effort...

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News New Jersey governor signs legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
New Jersey governor signs legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Natalie Hrubos
July 8, 2007 11:54:00 am

New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine signed legislation to cut emissions of greenhouse gases Friday, making New Jersey the third state in the nation to pass such laws to prevent global warming....

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News New US state laws take effect with fiscal year
New US state laws take effect with fiscal year
Natalie Hrubos
July 1, 2007 01:35:00 pm

New laws took effect in many US states Sunday with the start of the fiscal year on July 1, including a law in Virginia that requires convicted sex offenders to register e-mail addresses with the state,...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Rosenbergs convicted of espionage

On March 29, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of passing US atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. The couple was sentenced to death on April 3 under the Espionage Act of 1917, 18 U.S.C 794. They were then executed two years later on June 19, 1953 in New York State's Sing Sing Prison. View the FBI's files on the Rosenbergs.

British parliament passed act creating Canada

On March 29, 1867, the British Parliament passed the British North America Act, a constitutional document creating a united Dominion of Canada. It went into effect on July 1 that year.

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