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News Bulgaria parliament approves EU reform treaty
Bulgaria parliament approves EU reform treaty
Steve Czajkowski
March 21, 2008 04:15:00 pm

The National Assembly of Bulgaria Friday voted 195-15 to approve the new EU reform treaty , properly known as the Treaty of Lisbon . Ten members of the nationalist Ataka party [party...

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News Dutch court to hear challenge against film criticizing Islam
Dutch court to hear challenge against film criticizing Islam
Steve Czajkowski
March 21, 2008 03:02:00 pm

A district court in the Netherlands agreed Friday to hear a lawsuit filed by the Dutch Islamic Federation seeking to ban the release of a film that criticizes the Quran. Dutch right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders ...

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News Executing 9/11 suspects would make them martyrs: Mukasay
Executing 9/11 suspects would make them martyrs: Mukasay
Steve Czajkowski
March 15, 2008 12:01:00 pm

US Attorney General Michael Mukasey told an audience in London Friday that he hopes those accused in the 9/11 attacks do not receive the death penalty if found guilty because it...

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News Kosovo Serbs take over UN courthouse in secession protest
Kosovo Serbs take over UN courthouse in secession protest
Steve Czajkowski
March 15, 2008 12:00:00 pm

Hundreds of Serbs took control of a UN courthouse in the northern Kosovo city of Mitrovica Friday in an apparent protest against Kosovo's recent declaration of independence from Serbia. The group initially demanded a deal with...

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News Norway government proposes law extending rights of same-sex partners
Norway government proposes law extending rights of same-sex partners
Steve Czajkowski
March 15, 2008 10:57:00 am

The Norwegian government brought forward a draft law Friday that would grant same-sex couples the same rights as heterosexual couples, replacing a 1993 law which merely granted gay couples the right to enter into civil unions. The...

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News Guatemala president vetoes death penalty bill
Guatemala president vetoes death penalty bill
Steve Czajkowski
March 15, 2008 10:12:00 am

Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom vetoed a bill Friday that would have restored the country's death penalty . Decree 06-2008 would also have given Colom, sworn into office just last month...

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News Pakistan lawyers launch new protests calling for restoration of judges
Pakistan lawyers launch new protests calling for restoration of judges
Steve Czajkowski
March 9, 2008 11:51:00 am

Pakistani lawyers protested Sunday, continuing their call for the reinstatement of former Supreme Court justices who were ousted after President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule in November 2007. Sunday's protest kicks off a week of...

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News Texas oil company owner sentenced to prison in oil-for-food bribery case
Texas oil company owner sentenced to prison in oil-for-food bribery case
Steve Czajkowski
March 7, 2008 05:07:00 pm

Texas oil baron David Chalmers was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to forfeit $9 million Friday for paying millions in bribes to Iraqi officials in connection with the UN oil-for-food scandal . Chalmers, the...

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News FBI referring fewer cases to Justice Department: study
FBI referring fewer cases to Justice Department: study
Steve Czajkowski
March 7, 2008 03:14:00 pm

The US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is currently referring approximately 40 percent fewer criminal cases to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) for prosecution than it did 20 years ago, according to a study released...

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Armenia president declares state of emergency after election protests
Steve Czajkowski
March 1, 2008 04:03:00 pm

Armenia President Robert Kocharian declared a state of emergency Saturday, as police forced approximately 15,000 demonstrators to disperse from the capital city of Yerevan. The protests are the result of the contested February 19 presidential election in...

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WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban

On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans. Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

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