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News Uruguay president agrees to take five Guantanamo prisoners
Uruguay president agrees to take five Guantanamo prisoners
Stephen Adelgren
March 21, 2014 12:47:51 pm

Uruguayan President Jose Mujica announced on Thursday that his country has agreed with US President Barack Obama to take five inmates at Guantanamo Bay , reportedly stating that they would be "welcome to work...

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News Egypt court sentences police officers for deaths of 37 Islamists
Egypt court sentences police officers for deaths of 37 Islamists
Stephen Adelgren
March 18, 2014 01:22:19 pm

A court in Cairo on Tusday sentenced four police officers convicted of negligence and manslaughter for their roles in connection with the deaths of 37 Islamist detainees who reportedly died of asphyxiation when a tear gas grenade was fired...

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News Myanmar enacts law assuring freedom for local media
Myanmar enacts law assuring freedom for local media
Stephen Adelgren
March 18, 2014 12:32:01 pm

The Myanmar legislature on Tuesday approved a new media law affording greater press freedoms to local media outlets. The law purportedly assures local media freedom from state censorship and attempts...

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News Oman court sentences former executive to 15 years for bribery
Oman court sentences former executive to 15 years for bribery
Stephen Adelgren
March 9, 2014 03:25:37 pm

On Sunday the Oman Court of First Instance sentenced the former executive of Galfar Engineering and Contracting, Muhammad Ali, to 15 years in prison and a fine of 1.7 million Omani rials for conviction in five cases of graft....

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News North Korea holds first parliamentary elections under Kim Jong-un
North Korea holds first parliamentary elections under Kim Jong-un
Stephen Adelgren
March 9, 2014 02:50:58 pm

On Sunday North Korea held its first parliamentary elections under the leadership of Kim Jong-un, successor and son of the late Kim Jong-Il. The elections are held at five-year intervals and are considered more a formality than...

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HRW urges aid for Libya judicial system
Stephen Adelgren
March 7, 2014 06:28:30 pm

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the international community Friday to provide assistance to Libya's failing justice system. HRW expressed concern over the mass detention of individuals on what they called an arbitrary basis. The...

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News Alabama House approves execution drug secrecy bill
Alabama House approves execution drug secrecy bill
Stephen Adelgren
March 7, 2014 11:26:03 am

On Thursday the Alabama House of Representatives approved a bill that would require information related to suppliers of drugs used in lethal injections to be kept confidential, citing current difficulties obtaining the drugs. The bill is...

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News Supreme Court rules bankruptcy court exceeded authority
Supreme Court rules bankruptcy court exceeded authority
Stephen Adelgren
March 4, 2014 12:10:55 pm

The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday in Law v. Siegel that a bankruptcy court improperly exceeded its authority by ordering legally exempt funds to be used to pay attorney's costs. The case revolved around...

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News Federal appeals court says BP must adhere to settlement agreement
Federal appeals court says BP must adhere to settlement agreement
Stephen Adelgren
March 4, 2014 11:29:25 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled 2-1 Monday that British Petroleum (BP) must adhere to the terms of its Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement agreement with Gulf...

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News Ukraine parliament votes to send ousted president before ICC
Ukraine parliament votes to send ousted president before ICC
Stephen Adelgren
February 25, 2014 12:18:35 pm

The Ukrainian parliamentary body Verkhovna Rada voted on Tuesday to adopt a resolution referring the now-fugitive former president Viktor Yanukovich and other high-ranking state officials to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) ....

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Johnson signed Immigration and Nationality Act into law, ending country quotas

On October 3, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson, standing in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, signed into law the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. The Act ordered the elimination of the national origins quota system established in 1882 in favor of a worldwide quota blind to national origin. Immigration was redistributed by pooling unused quotas and making them available on a first-come, first-served basis to oversubscribed nations. Learn more about the 1965 Act and its aftermath.

Germany reunified

On October 3, 1990, the German Democratic Republic was absorbed by the Federal Republic of Germany, reunifying the country for the first time since the Second World War. Today, the event is marked annually by German Unity Day. Read the Unification Treaty, signed in Berlin on August 31, 1990.

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