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News Convicted Bosnian war criminal dies while awaiting appeal
Convicted Bosnian war criminal dies while awaiting appeal
Ximena Marinero
April 17, 2010 03:22:00 pm

Former commander of the Bosnian army during the 1992-1994 Bosnian civil war Rasim Delic died Friday of cancer in his home. Delic was awaiting a decision from the International Criminal...

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Spain judge Garzon appeals high court indictment
Ximena Marinero
April 10, 2010 04:56:00 pm

Spanish National Court judge Baltasar Garzon on Saturday appealed an indictment that charges him with abuse of power for launching an investigation of alleged...

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News Poland lower house speaker assumes interim presidency after plane crash
Poland lower house speaker assumes interim presidency after plane crash
Ximena Marinero
April 10, 2010 03:01:00 pm

Polish Parliament Speaker Bronislaw Komorowski became the interim Polish president on Saturday after elected President Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash . Komorowski must now announce the...

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News US DOT to impose record civil fine on Toyota for safety defect reporting delay
US DOT to impose record civil fine on Toyota for safety defect reporting delay
Ximena Marinero
April 6, 2010 07:49:00 am

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will seek a record civil penalty of $16.375 million against Toyota Motor Corporation for a four-month delay in notifying the agency about a problem with "sticky"...

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News Federal judge dismisses 105 former Guantanamo detainee <i>habeas</i> cases
Federal judge dismisses 105 former Guantanamo detainee habeas cases
Ximena Marinero
April 3, 2010 02:24:00 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday dismissed as moot 105 habeas corpus petitions of non-citizen former Guantanamo Bay detainees who are no longer in...

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Germany chancellor proposes EU ‘preferred partnership’ with Turkey
Ximena Marinero
March 30, 2010 07:39:00 am

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday maintained that Turkey should become a European Union (EU) "preferred partner" rather than continue as a candidate country for EU accession. Turkey has only opened 12 of the 35...

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News Philippines court orders arrest of 189 for November massacre
Philippines court orders arrest of 189 for November massacre
Ximena Marinero
March 25, 2010 03:43:00 pm

The Quezon City Trial Court in Manila on Thursday issued arrest warrants for 189 suspects for their alleged role in the November 2009 massacre in semi-autonomous Maguindanao province that left 57 dead. Eight more individuals are also...

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News Federal judge rules US may continue holding Yemeni Guantanamo detainee
Federal judge rules US may continue holding Yemeni Guantanamo detainee
Ximena Marinero
March 25, 2010 02:12:00 pm

A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday denied a Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee's habeas corpus petition on its merits, allowing the US government to prolong...

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Senate committee approves financial regulation bill
Ximena Marinero
March 23, 2010 06:06:00 am

The US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on Monday voted 13-10 in favor of the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 , aimed at increasing oversight of the American financial...

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News Rights group urges Spain to abolish civil war amnesty law
Rights group urges Spain to abolish civil war amnesty law
Ximena Marinero
March 20, 2010 03:22:00 pm

Spain should repeal its 1977 amnesty law that bars investigation and prosecution of crimes committed under the Franco regime rather than "prosecuting a judge seeking accountability for past abuses," Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday....

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Gorbachev becomes USSR leader

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. He soon announced that he would hold arms-reduction negotiations in Geneva with the United States. Gorbachev also used his tenure to liberalize the economy and social structure of the USSR, eventually leading to the abatement of the Soviet Union. In 1990, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Read documents and interviews from the 1990 USA-USSR Summit.

Confederate Constitution adopted

On March 11, 1861, seven former US states adopted the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, which closely followed the language, if not necessarily the purport, of the original US Constitution. Section 9 (4) of the Confederate Constitution read "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed," enshrining the right to own slaves as fundamental law.

ICC holds first meeting

The war crimes court known as the International Criminal Court (ICC) swore in its first batch of judges on March 11, 2003. The meeting took place eight months after the ratification of the court's Rome Statute. Then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said of the occasion: It has taken mankind many years to reach this moment. By the solemn undertaking they have given here in open court, these 11 men and seven women, representing all regions of the world and many different cultures and legal traditions, have made themselves the embodiment of our collective conscience. Learn more about the work of the ICC.  

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