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News Iranian council says women can run for presidency
Iranian council says women can run for presidency
Tom Henry
January 22, 2005 11:07:00 am

A spokesman for Iran's hard-line Guardian Council indicated Saturday that women can run in June's presidential election . The council ruling clears up an ambiguous aspect of the Iranian constitution which states that the president...

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News Maldives picks parliament after tsunami delays
Maldives picks parliament after tsunami delays
Tom Henry
January 22, 2005 09:55:00 am

Voters in the Maldives went to the polls Saturday to elect a parliament three weeks after the Indian Ocean tsunami delayed voting. The small island chain has been under the control of Asia's longest serving ruler,...

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News Iraq expat voter registration deadline extended after low turnout
Iraq expat voter registration deadline extended after low turnout
Tom Henry
January 22, 2005 09:13:00 am

The International Organization for Migration which runs the Iraq Out-of-Country Voting Program announced Saturday that it has extended by two full days the registration period for overseas absentee voting in Iraq ....

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News Palestinian election officials resign over poll problems
Palestinian election officials resign over poll problems
Tom Henry
January 15, 2005 01:13:00 pm

Forty-six members of the Palestinian election commission resigned en masse Saturday, claiming that they had been improperly pressured to change procedures in the midst of the January 9th presidential vote. Senior commission officials claimed that campaign and...

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News Nobel winner resists Iran court summons
Nobel winner resists Iran court summons
Tom Henry
January 15, 2005 11:12:00 am

Following up on a JURIST report from Thursday, Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi said Saturday she won't respond to a court summons from an Iranian Revolutionary Court in spite of the...

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News Iraq implements new voter registration plan in troubled provinces
Iraq implements new voter registration plan in troubled provinces
Tom Henry
January 15, 2005 10:15:00 am

Due to security concerns surrounding the upcoming January 30 elections, authorities in Iraq have agreed to let voters register and cast ballots on the same day in the troubled provinces of Anbar and Ninawa . The...

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News FCC investigates paid commentator’s support of Bush education plan
FCC investigates paid commentator’s support of Bush education plan
Tom Henry
January 15, 2005 09:23:00 am

Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell ordered an investigation Friday into whether political commentator Armstrong Williams improperly failed to disclose that he was paid by the Bush administration to support the...

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News Al Qaeda-linked militant arrested in Iraq
Al Qaeda-linked militant arrested in Iraq
Tom Henry
January 8, 2005 10:45:00 am

US-led forces have detained a top figure in the Muslim militant network in Iraq and an ally of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the US military said in a statement Saturday. The man arrested, Abdul Aziz Sa'dun Ahmed Hamduni, also known...

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News Judge accuses Pinochet of having false passports
Judge accuses Pinochet of having false passports
Tom Henry
January 8, 2005 10:29:00 am

A judge in Chile accused former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet on Friday of having false passports just days after he was placed under house arrest for human rights charges. Special judge Sergio Munoz made the accusation in a court...

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News Afghan judge arrested for ties to Kabul car bombing
Afghan judge arrested for ties to Kabul car bombing
Tom Henry
January 8, 2005 09:52:00 am

Afghan authorities have arrested an Afghan supreme court judge in connection with an August car bomb attack that killed ten people, including three Americans, outside a US security firm in Kabul. Judge Naqibullah, who like many Afghans goes by...

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India constitution ratified

On January 26, 1950, India ratified its constitution, formally making the new country a republic. On the same day, Rajendra Prasad was inaugurated as the republic's first president. The anniversary is celebrated today as Republic Day in India.

Tennessee became first state to ban alcohol sales

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