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News Oregon Supreme Court upholds property compensation law
Oregon Supreme Court upholds property compensation law
Andrew Wood
February 21, 2006 03:57:00 pm

The Oregon Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a controversial property rights compensation law, reversing a circuit court decision and declaring the law constitutional. The law, known as Measure 37 , requires the government...

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News Pennsylvania voter ID bill to be vetoed by governor
Pennsylvania voter ID bill to be vetoed by governor
Andrew Wood
February 21, 2006 03:30:00 pm

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell has said he will veto House Bill 1318 , a bill that would require voters to provide identification at the polls in order to vote. Noting that voter turnout in elections is currently...

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News Highest New York court rules against Brooklyn clergy abuse victims
Highest New York court rules against Brooklyn clergy abuse victims
Andrew Wood
February 21, 2006 03:07:00 pm

The New York Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn could use the statute of limitations as a defense in two sexual abuse cases. In one case the...

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News Serbia denies reports of Mladic arrest
Serbia denies reports of Mladic arrest
Jeannie Shawl
February 21, 2006 02:00:00 pm

The Serbian government on Tuesday denied earlier reports that Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic had been arrested and would be turned over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former...

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News Supreme Court to hear sentencing, communications cases
Supreme Court to hear sentencing, communications cases
Holly Manges Jones
February 21, 2006 01:36:00 pm

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in four cases Tuesday. In Cunningham v. California, the Court will consider whether California's determinate sentencing law is invalid because judges are able to impose increased sentences based on their own findings of...

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News Three Ohio men indicted for conspiring to kill US soldiers in Iraq
Three Ohio men indicted for conspiring to kill US soldiers in Iraq
Holly Manges Jones
February 21, 2006 01:05:00 pm

Three Ohio men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for planning terrorist attacks on US military overseas , according to court documents unsealed Tuesday. The men were recruited by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi , who leads...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Serb war crimes fugitive Mladic arrested: report
BREAKING NEWS ~ Serb war crimes fugitive Mladic arrested: report
Jeannie Shawl
February 21, 2006 12:21:00 pm

Reuters is reporting that top Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has been arrested, according to Serbian news sources. Mladic's arrest has not been officially confirmed. The former general has been charged by...

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News Australia oil-for-food inquiry to probe government knowledge of AWB bribes
Australia oil-for-food inquiry to probe government knowledge of AWB bribes
Krystal MacIntyre
February 21, 2006 12:09:00 pm

The Australian judicial inquiry looking into allegations that leading Australian wheat exporter Australian Wheat Board (AWB) provided over $200 million in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's former regime as part of the now-defunct...

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News UK High Court allows extradition of bankers facing Enron charges
UK High Court allows extradition of bankers facing Enron charges
Chris Buell
February 21, 2006 11:39:00 am

The UK High Court on Tuesday rejected a bid by three UK bankers to halt their extradition to the US to face fraud charges in connection with the Enron scandal. The British...

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UK historian to appeal jail sentence for denying Holocaust
Krystal MacIntyre
February 21, 2006 11:36:00 am

British historian David Irving has said he will appeal the three-year sentence he received after pleading guilty Monday to charges of denying the Holocaust . Irving was charged in connection to two...

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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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