Unauthorized immigrants who arrived in the United States before an as-yet-undetermined cutoff date would be allowed to apply for permanent residency provided they pay fines and back taxes and learn English under the latest alternative immigration reform proposal advanced by a group of conservative senators Wednesday. Under the plan, those who had been in the [...]

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Nineteen-year-old Canadian Omar Khadr refused to take part in military commission proceedings during a pretrial hearing at Guantanamo Bay Wednesday, claiming that he was mistreated and sent to solitary confinement for no reason. Khadr currently faces charges of murder and conspiracy to commit war crimes stemming from a 2002 incident in Afghanistan where he allegedly [...]

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Nepal's royal government on Wednesday arrested 13 lawyers for holding peaceful rallies demanding peace and restoration of democracy in the Himalayan Kingdom on the eve of a general strike called by the opposition. The group was released later in the evening, a few hours after the Supreme Court of Nepal ordered the government to present [...]

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Dutch investigators on Wednesday released their final report on their independent investigation into the death of Slobodan Milosevic , saying that the former Yugoslavian leader died of a heart attack on the morning that guards found him dead in his cell at The Hague . The report confirms earlier investigations concluding that Milosevic died of [...]

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