US President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged that the US Central Intelligence Agency has operated secret prisons outside the US where high-value terror suspects were detained, and said that 14 of those suspects have now been transferred to the Defense Department's military prison at Guantanamo Bay where they will face trial. The suspects transferred to Guantanamo [...]

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A new US Army Field Manual on intelligence interrogations released Wednesday specifies that the Geneva Conventions apply to all detainees and eliminates separate standards for the questioning of prisoners of war and enemy combatants . The new manual also abandons plans to keep specific interrogation techniques classified . Military officials said in June that the [...]

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A federal judge in Argentina Tuesday ruled unconstitutional a presidential pardon extended to Jorge Rafael Videla , who prosecutors say led Argentina's military junta during the worst periods of the so-called "Dirty War" crackdown on dissidents between 1976 and 1983 that resulted in an official "missing" count of 13,000 people. Videla was tried and convicted [...]

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The Court of Appeals of Virginia , the state's second-highest court, upheld the nation's first felony conviction for computer spamming on Tuesday, ruling that Virginia's anti-spamming statute does not violate the First Amendment or the so-called Dormant Commerce Clause, and is not unconstitutionally vague. On appeal, admitted spammer Jeremy Jaynes argued that the Virginia statute [...]

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Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , the defeated Mexican presidential candidate, said Tuesday that he refused to recognize the officially-declared victory of president-elect Felipe Calderon and confirmed plans to establish a parallel government representing what he called a "true, authentic republic." Lopez Obrador rejected Tuesday's decision by the Federal Electoral Tribunal to certify Calderon as the [...]

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Andrew Wood : "Cambodia's role in the Textile and Garment (T&G) industry has only recently developed into the nation's largest export industry. With Cambodia's first garment factories opened in 1994, the industry is relatively young, especially when compared to its neighbors such as China. Over 70% of Cambodia's textiles are exported to the United States, [...]

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US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy underwent a "routine" stent replacement procedure at Washington Hospital Center on Saturday after complaining of chest pains, spokesperson Kathy Arberg revealed in a Tuesday statement . The 70-year-old Kennedy had a similar procedure performed in November, and has returned to work at the court. Although a stent is used [...]

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New York Times researcher Zhao Yan is appealing the three-year prison sentence he received last week from a Beijing court that convicted him of fraud. Zhao was charged with accepting $2,500 from an official, and his appeal maintains that he was acting as a reporter when the incident took place. Zhao lawyer Guan Anping also [...]

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