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News Milosevic war crimes trial back on after cardiac scare
Milosevic war crimes trial back on after cardiac scare
Russell Adkins
April 25, 2005 10:31:00 am

Following yet another interruption because of his health problems, the war crimes trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic resumed Monday at the International Court Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia . Milosevic stayed out of...

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News China draft interpretation of HK law allows limited executive term
China draft interpretation of HK law allows limited executive term
D. Wes Rist
April 25, 2005 09:12:00 am

The Legislative Commission of the National People's Congress of China has presented a draft interpretation of Hong Kong's Basic Law that would permit a new Hong Kong Chief Executive to be elected to the remainder of...

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News UK report on legality of Iraq war altered prior to release to public
UK report on legality of Iraq war altered prior to release to public
D. Wes Rist
April 25, 2005 08:43:00 am

A UK newspaper has disclosed that the legal advice rendered to Prime Minister Tony Blair's government on the eve of the Iraq war included multiple caveats that were not included in a one-page summary supporting the conflict that was...

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News UN rights investigator removed from Afghan post after report critical of US
UN rights investigator removed from Afghan post after report critical of US
D. Wes Rist
April 25, 2005 08:29:00 am

The top UN investigator in Afghanistan, M. Cherif Bassiouni , has been released from his post following his issuance Thursday of a report to the UN Commission on Human Rights heavily critical of US-led...

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News US incarceration rates hit record high in 2003-2004
US incarceration rates hit record high in 2003-2004
D. Wes Rist
April 25, 2005 08:16:00 am

The US Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics reported Sunday that prison incarceration rates for 2003 - 2004 hit an all-time high, with nearly 2.3 percent of the population being jailed for some length of time....

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News Legal agenda and live webcasts ~ Monday, April 25
Legal agenda and live webcasts ~ Monday, April 25
Chris Buell
April 25, 2005 12:01:00 am

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Monday, April 25.The US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in two cases beginning at 10 AM ET today. In the first, Halbert...

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News Family, Euro governments balk at  US death penalty bid for Moussaoui
Family, Euro governments balk at US death penalty bid for Moussaoui
Kate Heneroty
April 24, 2005 02:36:00 pm

Francois Roux, a French lawyer advising Aicha El Wafi, the mother of indicted US terror suspect Zacarias Moussaoui, the French citizen who earlier this week pleaded guilty to six counts of conspiracy stemming from the September 11th terrorist attacks,...

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News Frist urges judicial respect at conservative Christian anti-filibuster event
Frist urges judicial respect at conservative Christian anti-filibuster event
Kate Heneroty
April 24, 2005 02:03:00 pm

Senate majority leader Bill Frist, in a taped statement to be aired Sunday evening, urged conservatives to recognize that judges "deserve respect, not retaliation no matter how they rule," and defended his actions to stop Democrats...

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News Report on command responsibility for detainee abuse [HRW]
Report on command responsibility for detainee abuse [HRW]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 24, 2005 12:13:00 pm

Getting Away with Torture? Command Responsibility for the U.S. Abuse of Detainees, Human Rights Watch, April 24, 2005 [calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the roles of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former CIA director George Tenet...

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News Pope Benedict XVI officially installed
Pope Benedict XVI officially installed
David Shucosky
April 24, 2005 10:57:00 am

Pope Benedict XVI was officially installed as the 265th head of the Catholic Church on Sunday, receiving the symbolic pallium and the Ring of the Fisherman , and celebrating...

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On January 18, 1919, the World War I Paris Peace Conference began in Versailles, France. The negotiations lasted six months before producing the Treaty of Versailles, which redrew the borders of Europe and created the League of Nations.

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