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News Navajo council overrides veto on same-sex marriage ban
Navajo council overrides veto on same-sex marriage ban
Holly Manges Jones
June 4, 2005 11:23:00 am

The Navajo Nation's Tribal Council voted Friday to override Navajo President Joe Shirley Jr.'s veto of a same-sex marriage ban it approved last month for the UnitedS States' largest Indian reservation. The Dine Marriage...

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News Italian prosecutors appeal bribery acquittal of PM Berlusconi
Italian prosecutors appeal bribery acquittal of PM Berlusconi
Holly Manges Jones
June 4, 2005 10:41:00 am

Italian prosecutors have appealed the 2004 acquittal of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on charges that he bribed judges to block competing industrialist Carlo De Benedetti from buying a state-owned food conglomerate. In 1985, judges...

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News Gonzales: FBI "Deep Throat" not likely to be prosecuted
Gonzales: FBI "Deep Throat" not likely to be prosecuted
Holly Manges Jones
June 4, 2005 09:54:00 am

Former FBI No. 2 W. Mark Felt , also known as "Deep Throat", is not likely to be prosecuted for revealing information to reporters during the Watergate scandal according to US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales,...

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News Gitmo Koran inquiry incidents report [US Southern Command]
Gitmo Koran inquiry incidents report [US Southern Command]
June 3, 2005 10:05:00 pm

Koran Inquiry: Description of Incidents, US Southern Command, June 3, 2005 . Excerpt:During an interrogation in FEB 02,...

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News Kansas school funding ruling [KS SC]
Kansas school funding ruling [KS SC]
June 3, 2005 10:03:00 pm

Montoy, et al., v. Kansas, et al., Supreme Court of the State of Kansas, June 3, 2005 . Excerpt:The initial attractiveness of the Board's suggestion...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Pentagon details disrepectful acts involving Koran at Gitmo
BREAKING NEWS ~ Pentagon details disrepectful acts involving Koran at Gitmo
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
June 3, 2005 08:12:00 pm

AP is reporting that the Pentagon has confirmed that a US soldier at the terror detention camp at Guantanamo Bay kicked a detainee's Koran and that a guard's urine was splashed on the Islamic sacred text.8:35 PM ET -...

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News Kansas high court strikes down state school funding program
Kansas high court strikes down state school funding program
Tom Henry
June 3, 2005 04:25:00 pm

In a long-awaited decision handed down Friday, the Kansas Supreme Court rejected the state's proposed $145 million dollar finance plan for public schools. In late March 2005 lawmakers approved the additional $145 million in state...

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News International brief ~ Turk president vetoes penal code provision on Koran teaching
International brief ~ Turk president vetoes penal code provision on Koran teaching
D. Wes Rist
June 3, 2005 03:35:00 pm

Leading Friday's international brief, Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer Friday vetoed a part of the new penal code {JURIST report] approved by the Turkish Parliament that would have lowered the penalty for anyone...

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News Kentucky diocese settles abuse claims for $120 million
Kentucky diocese settles abuse claims for $120 million
David Shucosky
June 3, 2005 03:22:00 pm

In the biggest settlement yet in the Catholic clergy child sex abuse scandal , the Kentucky Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington agreed on Friday to set up a $120 million fund to pay victims. A...

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News Serb minister says Srebrenica video may lead to arrest of war criminal Mladic
Serb minister says Srebrenica video may lead to arrest of war criminal Mladic
Tom Henry
June 3, 2005 01:39:00 pm

Following up on a report Thursday in JURIST's Paper Chase, Serbian Minister for Human Rights Rasim Ljajic said Friday that Serbian TV's broadcast of a disturbing video of six Bosnian Muslim youths being...

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