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News Iraq PM: election ban dispute to be resolved this week
Iraq PM: election ban dispute to be resolved this week
Patrice Collins
February 8, 2010 11:08:00 am

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Monday that a dispute over banned candidates will be resolved by Friday when campaigning is scheduled to begin for the upcoming elections . He assured ...

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News Vietnam court sentences pro-democracy activist to prison for assault
Vietnam court sentences pro-democracy activist to prison for assault
Patrice Collins
February 5, 2010 10:08:00 am

A Vietnamese court on Friday sentenced pro-democracy writer and rights activist Tran Khai Thanh Thuy to three-and-a-half years in prison on assault charges. Thuy and her husband, who received two years' house arrest, were convicted ...

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News Iran top judge says protester executions to be based on law, not political pressure
Iran top judge says protester executions to be based on law, not political pressure
Patrice Collins
February 1, 2010 10:32:00 am

Top Iranian judge Sadeq Larijani said Monday that any further executions of anti-government protesters will be based on the law rather than on political pressure. Refusing to heed calls for more executions to...

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News France prosecutors to appeal acquittal of former PM for Sarkozy defamation
France prosecutors to appeal acquittal of former PM for Sarkozy defamation
Patrice Collins
January 29, 2010 10:13:00 am

A French public prosecutor on Friday announced plans to appeal the acquittal of former prime minister Dominique de Villepin , which cleared him of all charges for his role in an alleged plot...

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News ‘Chemical Ali’ executed in Iraq for ordering gassing of Kurdish village
‘Chemical Ali’ executed in Iraq for ordering gassing of Kurdish village
Patrice Collins
January 25, 2010 12:25:00 pm

Iraqi officials on Monday executed Ali Hassan al-Majid , better known as "Chemical Ali," for ordering the Kurdish village of Halabja gassed in 1988. Government spokesperson Ali al-Dabbagh stated that al-Majid...

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China defends Internet freedom policies in response to Clinton speech
Patrice Collins
January 22, 2010 11:17:00 am

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ma Zhaoxu on Friday accused the US of harming bilateral relations with China after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton , gave a speech promoting Internet freedom and...

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Two Guantanamo Bay detainees transferred to Algeria
Patrice Collins
January 22, 2010 10:12:00 am

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that two Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred to Algeria . Hassan Zumiri had spent more than seven years in the Guantanamo detention center, while...

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Patrice Collins
January 15, 2010 10:08:00 am

A Honduran Supreme Court judge on Thursday charged top military personnel with abuse of power for removing former president Manuel Zelaya from the country after he was ousted from power...

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Russia law allowing house arrest to reduce prison population takes effect
Patrice Collins
January 11, 2010 02:18:00 pm

A Russian law allowing minor offenders to serve their sentences under house arrest rather than in prison entered into force on Sunday. The bill, approved by the Russian State Duma last month...

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Patrice Collins
December 16, 2009 12:29:00 pm

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Wednesday issued its first genocide charges against two former Khmer Rouge leaders. Former deputy leader and chief ideologist Nuon Chea and foreign...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Bank of England granted political independence

On May 6, 1997, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced that the Bank of England would be granted political independence for the first time in the three-hundred year history of the Bank. This policy was statutized in the subsequent Bank of England Act of 1998 gave the Bank independent control of British monetary policy effective June 1, 1998. Read the Bank of England Act of 1998.

Chinese Exclusion Act barred Chinese laborers from US

On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States and prohibiting courts from bestowing US citizenship on Chinese. Connecticut Senator Joseph Hawley spoke out against the Act in these words: Let the proposed statue be read 100 years hence, dug out of the dust of ages and forgotten as it will be except for a line of sneer by some historian, and ask the young man not well read in the history of this country what was the reason for excluding these men and he would not be able to find it in the law. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and its successors were abolished in 1943 at the insistence of President Franklin Roosevelt.

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