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News Accused Somali pirates on trial in France for 2009 hijacking
Accused Somali pirates on trial in France for 2009 hijacking
Peter Snyder
October 14, 2013 11:07:17 am

Three Somali pirates accused of hijacking a private yacht off the coast of Somalia in 2009 went on trial in France Monday. The situation garnered heavy media coverage after French special services attempted to rescue the three...

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News France court upholds ban on hydraulic fracturing
France court upholds ban on hydraulic fracturing
Peter Snyder
October 11, 2013 04:18:52 pm

France Constitutional Council on Friday upheld France's ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking , finding that banning the controversial natural gas extraction process is a valid means of protecting the environment....

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News ICC finds case against former Libya spy chief inadmissible
ICC finds case against former Libya spy chief inadmissible
Peter Snyder
October 11, 2013 03:35:10 pm

The International Criminal Court (ICC) ruled Friday that the case against former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi is inadmissible before the ICC and can be heard by domestic...

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News Muslim Brotherhood appeals order seizing funds
Muslim Brotherhood appeals order seizing funds
Peter Snyder
October 7, 2013 11:41:31 am

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood filed a lawsuit Monday appealing a court verdict ordering the interim government to seize the group's assets. The decision by the Cairo Court for Urgent Matters handed down September...

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News Sarkozy campaign funds fraud allegations dropped
Sarkozy campaign funds fraud allegations dropped
Peter Snyder
October 7, 2013 11:19:06 am

The investigation into allegations that former French president Nicolas Sarkozy exploited L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt into donating illicit election campaign funds has been dropped, according to Monday reports. Bettencourt's accountant...

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News DOJ drops opposition to Guantanamo prisoner release
DOJ drops opposition to Guantanamo prisoner release
Peter Snyder
October 4, 2013 09:52:46 am

The US Department of Justice filed papers Wednesday dropping opposition to the release of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Ibrahim Idris . The DOJ will not object to a judge issuing a release for Idris who...

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News Federal appeals court instructs ITC to reconsider Microsoft Google patent dispute
Federal appeals court instructs ITC to reconsider Microsoft Google patent dispute
Peter Snyder
October 4, 2013 08:16:30 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday held that the International Trade Commission (ITC) erred in finding that Motorola Mobility, a branch of Google did not infringe a Microsoft...

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News UN rights experts urge Spain to provide justice for disappeared
UN rights experts urge Spain to provide justice for disappeared
Peter Snyder
October 1, 2013 10:30:21 am

The Spanish government must do more to provide information on the whereabouts of individuals who disappeared during the Spanish Civil War and the Francisco Franco regime, experts from the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances...

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News Bangladesh MP sentenced to death for war crimes
Bangladesh MP sentenced to death for war crimes
Peter Snyder
October 1, 2013 09:37:38 am

The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on Monday sentenced Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, a member of parliament for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) , to death for war crimes committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War...

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News UN holds first ministerial meeting on gay rights
UN holds first ministerial meeting on gay rights
Peter Snyder
September 27, 2013 08:58:00 am

The first UN ministerial meeting on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals was held Thursday during the General Assembly's annual high-level debate. Representatives from the US, France, Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, the Netherlands, Norway,...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

American colonists throw tea into Boston harbor in protest of Britain-imposed tea tax

A group of American colonists known as the "Sons of Liberty" boarded an East India Company ship carrying tea disguised as Native Americans on December 16, 1773, throwing the cargo overboard in protest of the British Parliament's taxes on tea imported by Americans. The protest would result in five acts of Parliament known as the "Intolerable Acts," including the Boston Port Act, which closed Boston Harbor to all ships. Read an eyewitness account of the Boston Tea Party.

English Bill of Rights took effect

On December 16, 1689, the English "Bill of Rights" went into effect. Review An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown.

President Truman proclaims state of emergency in response to China entry into Korea War

On December 16, 1950, US President Harry S. Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency during the Korean War in response to Chinese intervention.

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