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News International brief ~ Sudan will not challenge ICC Darfur crimes probe
International brief ~ Sudan will not challenge ICC Darfur crimes probe
D. Wes Rist
June 7, 2005 04:37:00 pm

Leading Tuesday's international brief, Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail has told reporters that the Sudan government is not planning to challenge the recently announced probe into Darfur by the International Criminal Court . Ismail reiterated,...

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News No appeal against release of former Kosovo PM pending war crimes trial
No appeal against release of former Kosovo PM pending war crimes trial
Jamie Sterling
June 7, 2005 03:34:00 pm

Prosecutors for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia said Tuesday that they will not appeal the provisional release of former Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj . A trial chamber...

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News War crimes prosecutors say Milosevic police directed Scorpions paramilitary
War crimes prosecutors say Milosevic police directed Scorpions paramilitary
Tom Henry
June 7, 2005 03:27:00 pm

UN war crimes prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia introduced evidence Tuesday that former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic used his police forces to directly control a brutal Serbian paramilitary group called...

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News Senate invokes cloture on Brown judicial nomination
Senate invokes cloture on Brown judicial nomination
Jamie Sterling
June 7, 2005 03:11:00 pm

The US Senate voted 65-32 Tuesday to limit debate on the nomination of California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown to the federal appeals bench, against some opposition from Democrats, some of whom have...

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News Spanish judge wants to question US soldiers about Spanish journo’s Iraq death
Spanish judge wants to question US soldiers about Spanish journo’s Iraq death
Jamie Sterling
June 7, 2005 02:52:00 pm

A Spanish court official said Tuesday that a Spanish judge wants to question three US soldiers in connection with the 2003 killing of Spanish cameraman Jose Couso in Iraq when a US tank fired on a Baghdad hotel housing...

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News Blair hoping to salvage key elements of EU constitution
Blair hoping to salvage key elements of EU constitution
Jamie Sterling
June 7, 2005 02:16:00 pm

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in an interview Tuesday with the Financial Times that Britain will attempt to salvage some key components from the nearly-defunct EU Constitution. UK Secretary of State for Foreign and...

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News Libyan court clears police officers in Bulgarian AIDS case
Libyan court clears police officers in Bulgarian AIDS case
Tom Henry
June 7, 2005 01:32:00 pm

A Libyan court announced Tuesday that nine police officers and one doctor have been acquitted of torturing five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, who were allegedly forced to confess to deliberately infecting Libyan children with HIV. The six...

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News Chile court strips Pinochet of immunity to face tax fraud charges
Chile court strips Pinochet of immunity to face tax fraud charges
David Shucosky
June 7, 2005 12:57:00 pm

The Santiago Appeals Court, the intermediate appellate jurisdiction in Chile, stripped former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet of immunity Tuesday so he can face charges of tax fraud in connection with as much as $17 million...

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News Jordan appeals court reverses conviction of alleged al-Zarqawi funder
Jordan appeals court reverses conviction of alleged al-Zarqawi funder
Krista-Ann Staley
June 7, 2005 11:38:00 am

A Jordanian appeals court has overturned the conviction of a Jordanian man for financing al Qaeda-linked terrorist Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi in an opinion obtained by the Associated Press Tuesday. According to the Court of Cassation [Jordian Judicial Branch...

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News Federal appeals court upholds FL sex offender registration, DNA sample laws
Federal appeals court upholds FL sex offender registration, DNA sample laws
David Shucosky
June 7, 2005 11:21:00 am

A three-judge panel of the US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously upheld two Florida laws that require sex offenders to register with the state and submit a DNA sample after release from prison. A group...

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On January 8, 1973, seven men went on trial in Washington DC in connection with a June 17, 1972 break-in to Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate Hotel. Read more about the Watergate burglary and cover-up.

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