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News Austria court convicts three neo-Nazis for glorifying Nazism
Austria court convicts three neo-Nazis for glorifying Nazism
Sarah Posner
January 11, 2013 09:26:42 am

An Austrian court convicted three neo-Nazis on Thursday of glorifying Nazism over the Internet, sentencing them to as many as nine years in prison. Neo-Nazi leader Gottfried Kuessel was sentenced to nine years in prison for creating...

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News Bangladesh war crimes tribunal rejects retrial plea by Jamaat-e-Islami leader
Bangladesh war crimes tribunal rejects retrial plea by Jamaat-e-Islami leader
Sarah Posner
January 7, 2013 10:38:56 am

The second International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) rejected a plea on Monday from Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Molla for a re-trial. Justice Obaidul Hassan of the ICTB rejected ...

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News Sri Lanka appeals court orders parliament to drop impeachment proceedings
Sri Lanka appeals court orders parliament to drop impeachment proceedings
Sarah Posner
January 7, 2013 09:51:02 am

The Court of Appeals of Sri Lanka on Monday ordered parliament to drop the impeachment proceedings against Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake, quashing a guilty verdict against her. This decision further fuels the dispute between the...

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News More than 20 killed in Syria; UN renews call for peace initiative
More than 20 killed in Syria; UN renews call for peace initiative
Sarah Posner
December 27, 2012 10:28:26 am

More than 20 civilians, including eight children, were killed in Syria's northern province of al-Raqqa, according to a video posted Wednesday by activists. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported ...

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News Supreme Court Justice denies injunction against contraceptive coverage mandate
Supreme Court Justice denies injunction against contraceptive coverage mandate
Sarah Posner
December 27, 2012 09:28:27 am

US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday denied Hobby Lobby, Inc.'s application for injunction which would have prevented enforcement of the provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) [text;...

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Former justice minister in Georgia to be formally charged
Sarah Posner
December 25, 2012 02:11:53 pm

Georgian Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili announced Tuesday that the former justice minister in Georgia, Justice Minister Zurab Adeishvili, is set to be charged on December 26 in connection with the torture of prisoners in the country's capital of Tbilisi....

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UN votes to negotiate international arms treaty
Sarah Posner
December 25, 2012 01:36:27 pm

The UN General Assembly voted Monday to re-enter negotiations over an international treaty for the global sale of arms, a 70 billion dollar industry. The General Assembly adopted an arms treaty with 133 votes in...

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Venezuela will not hold a new election despite Chavez critical health
Sarah Posner
December 24, 2012 10:48:18 am

Venezuelan official stated on Saturday that the country will not be holding a new election, even if President Hugo Chavez is unable to take office on January 10 because of his cancer. Although there...

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NRA CEO dismisses renewal of ban on assault weapons
Sarah Posner
December 24, 2012 09:57:18 am

The National Rifle Association (NRA) CEO Wayne LaPierre dismissed calls for a renewed ban on assault weapons on Sunday. LaPierre said that an assault weapons ban was a "phony piece of legislation" . After...

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News Italy court overturns conviction of Google executives for privacy violation
Italy court overturns conviction of Google executives for privacy violation
Sarah Posner
December 23, 2012 10:32:54 am

An Italian appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction of three Google executives for violating Italian privacy laws by posting a video on Google of a handicapped child being bullied. Google was "delighted" to see...

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President Lincoln offered amnesty to Confederates

On December 8, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation offering amnesty to all citizens of the Confederacy who swore an oath to uphold the US Constitution. Because of confusion over who was to administer the oath, Lincoln issued another proclamation on March 26, 1864, empowering "any commissioned officer, civil, military, or naval in the service of the United States", as well as those persons in the territories which were "not in insurrection who were by the laws therefore qualified for administering oaths." Both Proclamations specified that military prisoners and others held for crimes against the United States were ineligible for amnesty, although Confederate deserters could volunteer to take the oath.

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