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News Indiana appeals order blocking Planned Parenthood defunding law
Indiana appeals order blocking Planned Parenthood defunding law
Zach Zagger
August 2, 2011 10:05:08 am

Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller filed an appeal Monday to lift a judge's decision to block parts of a controversial state law denying that medicaid funds go to Planned Parenthood of Indiana (PPIN)...

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News DOJ challenges Alabama immigration law
DOJ challenges Alabama immigration law
Maureen Cosgrove
August 2, 2011 09:20:12 am

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama challenging an Alabama law that expands restrictions on...

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News US top military official says troops need immunity for continued presence in Iraq
US top military official says troops need immunity for continued presence in Iraq
Zach Zagger
August 2, 2011 08:47:16 am

Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff , Admiral Mike Mullen , said Tuesday that US troops must be granted immunity in order to remain in Iraq beyond the end-of-the-year deadline. It is up to the...

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News Belarus lawmakers move to ban silent protests
Belarus lawmakers move to ban silent protests
Zach Zagger
August 1, 2011 03:05:14 pm

Members of the Belarus Parliament have introduced a bill that would ban so-called "silent protests," including those involving large groups of people basically doing nothing. The law seems aimed at stopping numerous silent protests across Belarus with...

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News Austria court rejects Serbia extradition request for war crimes suspect
Austria court rejects Serbia extradition request for war crimes suspect
Maureen Cosgrove
August 1, 2011 02:14:56 pm

An Austrian court on Friday rejected Serbia's extradition request for former Bosnian general and suspected war criminal Jovan Divjak. The court ruled that Divjak likely would not receive a fair trial if he were extradited, expressing concerns...

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Israel to extradite war crimes suspect to Bosnia
Maureen Cosgrove
August 1, 2011 12:47:24 pm

The Jerusalem District Court on Monday ruled that suspected Bosnian war criminal Aleksander Cvetkovic could be extradited to Bosnia to stand trial for crimes committed during the 1992-1995 Bosnian Civil War . Bosnian authorities claim that Cvetkovic...

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Federal judge blocks Kansas law defunding of Planned Parenthood
Zach Zagger
August 1, 2011 12:01:45 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Kansas Monday blocked a Kansas law that would prevent Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri (PPKM) from receiving federal funding....

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Maureen Cosgrove
August 1, 2011 11:35:09 am

The trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak will be televised live, the trial judge announced Monday. The trial will also be held at the national police academy in a room large enough...

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News UN panel calls for release of jailed China dissident Liu
UN panel calls for release of jailed China dissident Liu
Zach Zagger
August 1, 2011 09:50:00 am

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has called for the immediate release of Chinese rights activist and Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo , according to UN documents from May released Monday...

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Venezuela to release 40 percent of prisoners to reduce overcrowding
Maureen Cosgrove
August 1, 2011 09:30:59 am

Venezuelan Minister for Prisons Iris Varela announced Sunday that she plans to release up to 40 percent of the country's prisoners in an effort to reduce prison overcrowding . Varela, who was appointed ...

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WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban

On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans. Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

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