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News EU court upholds Italian leniency on false accounting
EU court upholds Italian leniency on false accounting
Phillip Hong-Barco
May 3, 2005 11:33:00 am

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi emerged victorious Tuesday after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that EU law could not overrule an Italian law partially decriminalizing false accounting crimes. The...

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News Islamic rights group targets Robertson remarks against appointing Muslim judges
Islamic rights group targets Robertson remarks against appointing Muslim judges
Phillip Hong-Barco
May 3, 2005 11:08:00 am

The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called on American political and religious leaders to repudiate remarks by evangelist Pat Robertson who said Sunday on This Week with George Stephanopoulos that Muslims should not...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ BTK serial killer suspect pleads not guilty to 10 murder counts
BREAKING NEWS ~ BTK serial killer suspect pleads not guilty to 10 murder counts
Phillip Hong-Barco
May 3, 2005 10:59:00 am

Dennis Rader , the man accused of being Kansas's BTK (bind, torture, kill) serial killer, pleaded not guilty Monday to 10 counts of murder. The BTK killer was suspected of eight murders from 1974 to 1991, but...

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News Massachusetts high court hears challenge to same-sex marriage law
Massachusetts high court hears challenge to same-sex marriage law
Phillip Hong-Barco
May 3, 2005 10:27:00 am

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Monday heard a bid to restrain same-sex couples from marrying until state residents can vote on a proposed state constitutional amendment banning such marriages. The action was brought by C.J....

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News Italy proposes novel UN Security Council reform based on regional representation
Italy proposes novel UN Security Council reform based on regional representation
Phillip Hong-Barco
May 3, 2005 09:57:00 am

In an attempt to break a ten-year deadlock over reforming the United Nations Security Council , Italy suggested Monday that a new system be instituted by which the council would award 10 new seats to regional groups rather...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Moussaoui pleads guilty to involvement in 9/11 attacks
BREAKING NEWS ~ Moussaoui pleads guilty to involvement in 9/11 attacks
Phillip Hong-Barco
April 22, 2005 04:16:00 pm

Zacarias Moussaoui has pleaded guilty to six conspiracy charges connected with the 9/11 attacks that killed more than 3000 people. Upon conviction, he could face the death penalty. Earlier today, Moussaoui's own lawyers had asked...

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News Rights groups appeal cut-off of Pinochet crimes investigations
Rights groups appeal cut-off of Pinochet crimes investigations
Phillip Hong-Barco
April 15, 2005 04:15:00 pm

In an urgent appeal at a press conference in Santiago Friday, a coalition of leading human rights groups urged the Chilean Supreme Court to reconsider its January 25 decision to shut down unconcluded investigations of human rights violations [JURIST...

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News Chirac TV pitch for EU constitution called a failure
Chirac TV pitch for EU constitution called a failure
Phillip Hong-Barco
April 15, 2005 03:55:00 pm

French commentators suggested Friday that a televised appeal by French President Jacques Chirac in a "town hall"-style meeting with young people broadcast Thursday evening and seen by over 9,000,000 viewers ...

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News Education Secretary deplores official ‘lapses’ in Williams plug-for-pay scandal
Education Secretary deplores official ‘lapses’ in Williams plug-for-pay scandal
Phillip Hong-Barco
April 15, 2005 03:34:00 pm

New US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings castigated senior departmental officials Friday over the controversial hiring of conservative commentator Armstrong Williams to plug the No Child Left Behind Act . Williams was investigated by...

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News Iraq president urged to pardon insurgents
Iraq president urged to pardon insurgents
Phillip Hong-Barco
April 15, 2005 03:01:00 pm

Sheik Ahmed Abdul Ghafour al-Samarrai, a prominent Sunni cleric of the Association of Muslim Scholars , urged President Jalal Talabani on Friday to fulfill an earlier promise to pardon some 10,500 insurgents imprisoned by US forces. His...

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Biological Weapons Convention goes into force

On March 26, 1975, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction went into force. Today, 162 countries have signed the Convention, pledging never "to develop, produce, stockpile or otherwise acquire or retain" biological weapons. Some signatory nations, however, have reserved the right to hold certain biological weapons for "prophylactic" purposes. Learn more about the UN Biological Weapons Convention.

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