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News Canada court rules security services may monitor citizens’ communications abroad
Canada court rules security services may monitor citizens’ communications abroad
Amelia Mathias
October 7, 2009 10:02:00 am

The Canadian Federal Court released a decision Tuesday ruling that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service may monitor the communications of Canadian citizens abroad. The case arose from two Canadian nationals who had their...

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News US to improve immigration detention facilities
US to improve immigration detention facilities
Amelia Mathias
October 7, 2009 09:03:00 am

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday announced a plan for improving immigration detention policies and facilities in response to recent widespread allegations of...

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News Obama administration presses Congress for stronger chemical regulations
Obama administration presses Congress for stronger chemical regulations
Amelia Mathias
September 30, 2009 10:04:00 am

The Obama administration on Tuesday called for Congress to enact legislation to tighten chemical and toxin regulations. In a speech before the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lisa Jackson...

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News France prosecutors ask judge to drop Chirac corruption charges
France prosecutors ask judge to drop Chirac corruption charges
Amelia Mathias
September 30, 2009 09:07:00 am

Paris prosecutors requested Tuesday that charges of embezzlement and corruption against former French president and Paris mayor Jacques Chirac be dropped. As mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995, Chirac is alleged to have placed...

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News US bill passage necessary for success of world climate change talks: US negotiator
US bill passage necessary for success of world climate change talks: US negotiator
Amelia Mathias
September 27, 2009 04:40:00 pm

The US will have a hard time convincing other countries to adopt emissions-cutting legislation so long as an American bill capping carbon emissions remains unpassed, US climate change chief negotiator Jonathan Pershing said in an interview with...

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News US officer who objected to Iraq war getting ‘other than honorable’ discharge
US officer who objected to Iraq war getting ‘other than honorable’ discharge
Amelia Mathias
September 27, 2009 04:22:00 pm

US Army First Lt. Ehren Watada has won discharge from military service after a three year battle to avoid redeployment in Iraq, according to media reports Friday. Watada sought to leave the army [Honolulu Star Bulletin...

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News Taiwan ex-president Chen indicted on additional embezzlement charge
Taiwan ex-president Chen indicted on additional embezzlement charge
Amelia Mathias
September 23, 2009 10:03:00 am

Taiwan prosecutors filed a new indictment against former president Chen Shui-bian Wednesday, less than two weeks after Chen was sentenced to life in prison on other corruption charges. The new charge accuses...

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News Karadzic prosecutors unwilling to shorten indictment to expedite case
Karadzic prosecutors unwilling to shorten indictment to expedite case
Amelia Mathias
September 23, 2009 09:00:00 am

Prosecutors for the case against Radovan Karadzic in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) announced Tuesday that they would not drop any charges against the accused in order to...

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News Pakistan to indict seven for 2008 Mumbai attacks
Pakistan to indict seven for 2008 Mumbai attacks
Amelia Mathias
September 20, 2009 03:28:00 pm

Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik announced Saturday that his government would indict seven suspects in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks . He also requested further evidence from India that the head of the erstwhile-Islamic charity...

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News Two more Uighur Guantanamo detainees agree to Palau transfer: report
Two more Uighur Guantanamo detainees agree to Palau transfer: report
Amelia Mathias
September 20, 2009 12:20:00 pm

Two more Uighur detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay have agreed to be transferred to Palau, their lawyer told the Associated Press Saturday. Six of the remaining 13 Uighurs in Guantanamo Bay are now...

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Netherlands becomes the first country to legalize same-sex marriage and euthanasia

On April 1, 2001, the Netherlands became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage. The nation then became the first country to legalize euthanasia on April 1, 2002.

First US wartime conscription law took effect

On April 1, 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, the first wartime conscription law passed in the United States went into effect. It included a clause allowing a person to pay $300 to avoid military service, a controversial "rich man's" exception that precipitated the July 1863 New York City Draft Riots.

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