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News Pakistan police file charges against Taliban leader in Bhutto assassination
Pakistan police file charges against Taliban leader in Bhutto assassination
Steve Czajkowski
March 1, 2008 03:17:00 pm

Pakistani police on Saturday filed preliminary charges against Baitullah Mehsud , the top Taliban leader in Pakistan, and four others in the assassination of former prime minister Benzhair Bhutto . The charges were filed...

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News British soldiers allegedly tortured, killed Iraqi civilians after 2004 clash
British soldiers allegedly tortured, killed Iraqi civilians after 2004 clash
Steve Czajkowski
February 23, 2008 02:37:00 pm

British troops may have tortured and executed up to 20 Iraqi civilians after a 2004 clash between insurgents and a British convoy in Majar al Kabir , according to evidence released Friday by the lawyers of five Iraqi...

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News Belarus releases newspaper editor jailed for reprinting Muhammad cartoons
Belarus releases newspaper editor jailed for reprinting Muhammad cartoons
Steve Czajkowski
February 22, 2008 04:36:00 pm

The Supreme Court of Belarus Friday ordered a former newspaper editor who had been had been sentenced to three years in prison for reprinting cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad to be released, his lawyer...

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News DHS gives final approval to ‘virtual fence’ along US-Mexico border
DHS gives final approval to ‘virtual fence’ along US-Mexico border
Steve Czajkowski
February 22, 2008 03:04:00 pm

The US government has granted final approval to the first stretch of "virtual fencing" , which will run for 28 miles along the US-Mexico border southwest of Tucson, Arizona, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Friday...

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News Media rights group claims Arab media charter limits freedom
Media rights group claims Arab media charter limits freedom
Steve Czajkowski
February 16, 2008 01:01:00 pm

The adoption of a media charter by the council of Arab information ministers is an attempt to take away what limited broadcast freedom private TV viewers enjoy, according to a statement text by the Committee to Protect...

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News Canada judge refuses warrants to monitor Canadian terror suspects aboard
Canada judge refuses warrants to monitor Canadian terror suspects aboard
Steve Czajkowski
February 16, 2008 11:58:00 am

The Federal Court of Canada refused a request by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) for warrants allowing it to conduct overseas electronic surveillance on 10 individuals, including 9 Canadians or Canadian immigrants, in a...

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News Danish reprint of Muhammad cartoon sparks renewed protests
Danish reprint of Muhammad cartoon sparks renewed protests
Steve Czajkowski
February 15, 2008 04:03:00 pm

Protests broke out in the Gaza Strip, Pakistan, and Denmark Friday over the reprinting of a cartoon depiction of the Muslim prophet Muhammad by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Poste . Thousands marched and chanted in the Jebaliya...

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News All Guantanamo detainee interrogations were videotaped: report
All Guantanamo detainee interrogations were videotaped: report
Steve Czajkowski
February 15, 2008 03:07:00 pm

Thousands of interrogations of suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have been videotaped, according to a report released Thursday by professors and students at Seton Hall University School of Law . The report...

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News UK police secretly recording lawyer-prisoner conversations: report
UK police secretly recording lawyer-prisoner conversations: report
Steve Czajkowski
February 9, 2008 06:23:00 pm

Hundreds of conversations between lawyers and their incarcerated clients have been secretly taped by British police, according to a report in the UK Telegraph daily published Saturday. The tapings came to light after a a former police detective revealed...

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News Myanmar to hold constitutional referendum in May
Myanmar to hold constitutional referendum in May
Steve Czajkowski
February 9, 2008 05:20:00 pm

The military government of Myanmar announced in a television broadcast Saturday that it will hold a constitutional referendum in May, with multi-party elections to follow in 2010. Last September a National Convention originally called in 1993...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

US President William McKinley dies after shooting

US President William McKinley died on September 14, 1901, eight days after being shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Czolgosz was executed over McKinley's assassination on October 29, 1901. Read more about William McKinley.

Eugene Debs sentenced for opposing US entry into WWI

On September 14, 1918, socialist and labor activist Eugene Debs was sentenced to ten years in prison for violating the Espionage Act and opposing the entry of the United States into World War I. Incarcerated in the Atlanta Penitentiary, he was still there when he ran for President as the Socialist Party candidate in the 1920 election, receiving 919,799 votes. He was pardoned by President Warren Harding in December 1921. Learn more about Eugene Debs on the website of the Debs Foundation.

OPEC founded

On September 14 1960, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded in Baghdad, Iraq. OPEC was created to promote higher crude oil prices for its members through the restriction of global supply. Learn more about the history of OPEC.

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