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News France minister proposes bill to restrict illegal immigration
France minister proposes bill to restrict illegal immigration
Steve Czajkowski
February 12, 2010 04:08:00 pm

French Immigration Minister Eric Besson on Friday presented a bill that would create "transit zones" allowing the French government to immediately detain undocumented immigrants wherever they are found. According to Besson, the draft law [Le...

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UK security head denies torture collaboration
Steve Czajkowski
February 12, 2010 03:12:00 pm

The head of the UK intelligence service MI5 on Friday denied accusations that it had collaborated with the US over the alleged torture of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed [BBC profile;...

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News Israel probe of Gaza fighting not impartial: HRW
Israel probe of Gaza fighting not impartial: HRW
Steve Czajkowski
February 7, 2010 10:38:00 am

Israel has not shown that it will conduct a thorough and impartial investigation of alleged war crimes during the January 2009 Gaza conflict , Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Sunday. HRW said that...

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News Pakistan to revise blasphemy laws: report
Pakistan to revise blasphemy laws: report
Steve Czajkowski
February 7, 2010 09:37:00 am

Pakistan will begin to revise its blasphemy laws later this year, a government official told the Agence France-Presse Sunday. Pakistan's Federal Minister for Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti said he has been speaking to various political...

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News Federal judge allows suit against Chiquita for Colombia killings to proceed
Federal judge allows suit against Chiquita for Colombia killings to proceed
Steve Czajkowski
February 5, 2010 03:34:00 pm

A federal judge ruled Thursday that a lawsuit that accuses Chiquita Brands International Inc. of assisting Marxist rebels who killed Colombian missionaries may go forward. The suit was brought by family...

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Italy judges walk out over proposed judicial reforms favoring Berlusconi
Steve Czajkowski
January 31, 2010 11:06:00 am

Hundreds of judges in Italy walked out of their courtrooms Saturday, in protest over judicial reform legislation proposed by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi . The legislation, which has been approved by the Italian...

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News Khalid Sheikh Mohammed likely to be executed after trial: White House
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed likely to be executed after trial: White House
Steve Czajkowski
January 31, 2010 09:59:00 am

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said during an interview Sunday on CNN's State of the Union that upon being tried and convicted, alleged 9/11 conspirator Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would likely be executed....

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Rights group criticizes Cambodia opposition leader’s conviction
Steve Czajkowski
January 29, 2010 02:59:00 pm

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday called the closed door trial of Cambodia's opposition leader Sam Rainsy and two others a "farce," saying the ruling demonstrates the government's control over the country's judiciary....

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News US to appeal dismissal of charges against Blackwater guards: Biden
US to appeal dismissal of charges against Blackwater guards: Biden
Steve Czajkowski
January 24, 2010 10:53:00 am

US Vice President Joe Biden announced Saturday that the US will appeal a ruling dismissing voluntary manslaughter and weapons charges against five Blackwater guards who were indicted for...

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News Federal judge reduces $1.92 million jury verdict in music file-sharing case
Federal judge reduces $1.92 million jury verdict in music file-sharing case
Steve Czajkowski
January 24, 2010 09:53:00 am

A federal judge on Friday reduced a $1.92 million jury verdict against a Minnesota woman who was found to have violated music copyrights to about $54,000. Chief Judge Michael Davis of the US District Court for the...

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FDR proposed 'court-packing' plan

On February 5, 1937, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, frustrated with the US Supreme Court's treatment of some of his economic reforms, proposed a plan to add judges to that and other federal courts whenever a sitting judge reached the age of seventy but declined to retire. Critics accused Roosevelt of indulging in autocracy and "court-packing." Review the text of Roosevelt's "fireside chat" on the proposal from March 9, 1937. Roosevelt eventually dropped the initiative but was nonetheless able to fill seven vacancies on the Court over the next four years, achieving his goal indirectly.

Panamanian dictator Noriega indicted

On February 5, 1988, Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was indicted on charges of drug smuggling and money laundering. The following year, he was extradited to the United States and later sentenced to 30 years in US federal prison. In 1999, the French government requested that Noriega be extradited to France, where he had been convicted of money laundering. In that same year, the government of Panama also requested the extradition of Noriega, as a result of his 1995 conviction in absentia on murder charges.

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