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News Italy court orders Iran assets frozen for Palestinian terror acts against Americans
Italy court orders Iran assets frozen for Palestinian terror acts against Americans
Sara R. Parsowith
December 13, 2005 10:37:00 am

An Italian court has ordered the freezing of an Iranian government account at a Rome bank at the instance of US plaintiffs claiming compensation for terrorist acts supposedly supported by Iran. Steven Flatow, a New Jersey lawyer whose daughter...

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News Trial of former Serb republic leader begins at The Hague
Trial of former Serb republic leader begins at The Hague
Sara R. Parsowith
December 13, 2005 10:27:00 am

The trial of Milan Martic , former leader of the erstwhile Serb republic in Croatia who has been charged with exterminating hundreds of Croat, Muslim and other non-Serb civilians between 1991 and 1995, began [ICTY press...

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News Scrushy, ex-Alabama governor indicted on new corruption charges
Scrushy, ex-Alabama governor indicted on new corruption charges
Sara R. Parsowith
December 13, 2005 09:57:00 am

A federal grand jury on Monday indicted former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy Richard Scrushy and Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman on fresh charges of corporate corruption, the latest in a series of allegations against the...

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News Federal judge gives final approval to Mexico border fence
Federal judge gives final approval to Mexico border fence
Sara R. Parsowith
December 13, 2005 09:33:00 am

US District Court Judge Larry Burns ruled Monday that US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff had authority to waive all laws and legal challenges to the building of the final 3.5...

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News ICC prosecutor seeks to move Darfur probe to Sudan
ICC prosecutor seeks to move Darfur probe to Sudan
Sara R. Parsowith
December 13, 2005 09:10:00 am

Luis Moreno-Ocampo , prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, is expected to tell the UN Security Council Tuesday that the ICC's investigation in Darfur has revealed large numbers...

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News Former Bush adviser says torture could be necessary
Former Bush adviser says torture could be necessary
Sara R. Parsowith
December 13, 2005 08:40:00 am

Former Deputy National Security Adviser Robert Blackwill , who served during President Bush's first term, said Monday that while torture should not be widespread in Iraq, there may be instances where it might be appropriate. Answering questions at...

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News Crips co-founder executed in California
Crips co-founder executed in California
Sara R. Parsowith
December 13, 2005 08:22:00 am

Crips gang co-founder and convicted murderer Stanley Tookie Williams died at 12:35 AM Tuesday morning after being executed by lethal injection at California's San Quentin State Prison. The execution occurred a day after California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger...

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News Trial of Ugandan opposition leader set for Dec. 19
Trial of Ugandan opposition leader set for Dec. 19
Sara R. Parsowith
December 12, 2005 08:54:00 am

The trial of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye on charges of treason and rape is set to begin on December 19. Besigye has been denied bail as he faces separate charges of terrorism and illegal...

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News Iraq rights ministry finds abused detainees in Baghdad facility
Iraq rights ministry finds abused detainees in Baghdad facility
Sara R. Parsowith
December 12, 2005 07:58:00 am

The Iraqi Human Rights Ministry said late Sunday that 13 prisoners in an overcrowded facility run by the Iraqi Interior Ministry were abuse victims who required medical treatment. The detainees have been transferred to a hospital and are under...

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News Milosevic asks war crimes court to let him visit Moscow clinic for checkup
Milosevic asks war crimes court to let him visit Moscow clinic for checkup
Sara R. Parsowith
December 12, 2005 07:43:00 am

Slobodan Milosevic Monday asked judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to let him visit a Moscow clinic for medical examinations during the court's winter recess. Milosevic suffers from...

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On April 1, 2001, the Netherlands became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage. The nation then became the first country to legalize euthanasia on April 1, 2002.

First US wartime conscription law took effect

On April 1, 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, the first wartime conscription law passed in the United States went into effect. It included a clause allowing a person to pay $300 to avoid military service, a controversial "rich man's" exception that precipitated the July 1863 New York City Draft Riots. The riots, the worst in US history to that point, killed as many as 100 people and had to be quelled by troops, some of whom had recently fought at the Battle of Gettysburg. Learn more about the Draft Riots.

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