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News Italy proposes tougher anti-terror laws in London aftermath
Italy proposes tougher anti-terror laws in London aftermath
Tom Henry
July 12, 2005 04:17:00 pm

Italian Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu presented new anti-terror measures in Italy's parliament Tuesday amid increased fears of attacks in Italy in the wake of Thursday's bombings in London . The measures, including provisions allowing police to...

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News No date set for asbestos bill to reach Senate floor
No date set for asbestos bill to reach Senate floor
Tom Henry
July 12, 2005 03:33:00 pm

US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter , co-sponsor with Senator Patrick Leahy of a bill to end asbestos injury lawsuits and pay the claims from a private fund instead, said Tuesday he was still urging...

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News Federal judge denies new trial for Ebbers
Federal judge denies new trial for Ebbers
Tom Henry
July 12, 2005 02:13:00 pm

Judge Barbara Jones , in a ruling made public Tuesday, has denied a petition by former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers for a new trial, opening the way for him to be sentenced as...

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News Bush wants G8 environmental debate broadened beyond Kyoto
Bush wants G8 environmental debate broadened beyond Kyoto
Tom Henry
July 5, 2005 04:23:00 pm

US National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley said Tuesday that President Bush has not changed his position on environmental policy but wants to broaden the debate at the G8 summit on matters beyond the Kyoto...

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News Five European countries join to start deportation flights
Five European countries join to start deportation flights
Tom Henry
July 5, 2005 02:46:00 pm

Interior ministers for Britain, France, Italy, Spain and Germany meeting prior to the G8 summit Tuesday announced a plan to put together joint flights to deport illegal immigrants from the European Union. The plan calls for planes...

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Prosecutor demands testimony of TIME reporter Cooper
Tom Henry
July 5, 2005 01:36:00 pm

Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald on Tuesday demanded the grand jury testimony of TIME magazine reporter Matthew Cooper, even though TIME has turned over e-mails and other documents to the probe into who...

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Sasser computer worm creator confesses in German trial
Tom Henry
July 5, 2005 01:03:00 pm

A German court said Tuesday that Sasser computer worm author Sven Jaschan has admitted to data manipulation, computer sabotage and interfering with public corporations in one of the largest worm attacks conducted on the Internet. The destructive...

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News UPDATE ~ French court sentences Mauritanian to 10 years for crimes abroad
UPDATE ~ French court sentences Mauritanian to 10 years for crimes abroad
Tom Henry
July 1, 2005 02:31:00 pm

A French court has sentenced Mauritanian Ely Ould Dah to 10 years in prison for torturing military officers abroad. Dah, a high ranking military officer in Mauritania, was sentenced in absentia Friday for torturing military officers in his home...

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Berlusconi demands US ‘respect’ Italian sovereignty after CIA abduction scandal
Tom Henry
July 1, 2005 01:37:00 pm

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi took the remarkable step Friday of demanding in an official statement delivered to summoned US ambassador Mel Sembler that the US government exhibit "full respect" for Italian sovereignty in the...

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Microsoft to pay IBM $775M in antitrust settlement
Tom Henry
July 1, 2005 12:50:00 pm

Software giant Microsoft has agreed to pay IBM $775 million to resolve claims stemming from the antitrust lawsuit brought by the US government in the late 1990s. As part of the agreement...

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Line of Demarcation divides the New World between Spain and Portugal

On May 4, 1493, Pope Alexander VI promulgated the Line of Demarcation, dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal in response the return of Christopher Columbus from his discovery of the American continents. However, neither country was entirely satisfied with the placement of the Line. A year later on June 7, 1494, the two nations signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, which moved the Line of Demarcation further west, giving Portugal claim to Brazil.

Kent State student shootings precipitated lawsuits

On May 4, 1970, National Guardsmen at Kent State University opened fire on students protesting the US invasion of Cambodia, killing four.

Review a legal chronology of the Kent State shootings, from May 5, 1970 (the day the FBI investigation started) to January 4, 1979 (the day the state of Ohio reached an out-of-court settlement for $675,000 with victims and relatives of victims).

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