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EU to take action against Google over privacy laws
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February 18, 2013 11:48:31 am

The French data protection agency Commission nationale de l'nformatique et des libertes (CNIL) said Monday that EU data protection agencies intend to take action against Google and investigate the Internet...

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February 11, 2013 11:47:59 am

The UN International Labor Organization (ILO) on Friday released a report urging greater efforts to end forced labor. The ILO estimates that 21 million people are subject to forced labor, which often includes human trafficking...

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Arkansas Senate approves lethal injection law revision
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February 8, 2013 01:20:45 pm

The Arkansas Senate on Thursday approved revisions to the state's lethal injection law. The Arkansas Supreme Court struck down the 2009 version of the law last year, finding that a provision allowing the...

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India president signs sexual assault ordinance
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February 4, 2013 01:08:27 pm

Indian President Pranab Mukherjee signed an ordinance on Sunday imposing stricter penalties for rape. The ordinance, which was passed by the Union Cabinet on Friday , will be tabled before the parliament within...

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Italy court convicts 3 Americans for 2003 rendition kidnapping
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February 2, 2013 07:40:03 am

The Milan Court of Appeals on Friday convicted three Americans for their roles in the 2003 rendition kidnapping of Egyptian cleric and terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr. Due to diplomatic immunity,...

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Illinois governor signs bill allowing illegal immigrant driver’s licenses
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January 28, 2013 11:27:53 am

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a bill on Sunday that will permit immigrants in the country illegally to obtain temporary driver's licenses if they can provide proof of one-year state residence and an...

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January 25, 2013 12:53:20 pm

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday praised a recent report as "a groundbreaking basis for action against violence against women in India." The report advocates for reform in...

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Alison Sacriponte
January 21, 2013 10:37:05 am

A Milan court on Monday set a timetable for hearings in the underage sex trial of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi , setting the last session of the trial for early March, two weeks...

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January 18, 2013 12:37:26 pm

Judges for the Second Court of Appeals of Milan on Friday rejected a request by the lawyers of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berulsconi to suspend his appellate proceedings until...

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HRW to Myanmar: drop charges against activists
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January 14, 2013 12:39:43 pm

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday called on authorities in Myanmar to drop charges against nine peaceful protesters who are facing criminal charges for demonstrating without a permit in Rangoon in September on International Peace...

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Maurice Papon convicted of war crimes

On April 2, 1998, Maurice Papon was convicted of war crimes for his role in deporting French Jews to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation of France. Under German occupation, Papon served as the supervisor of the Service for Jewish Questions in Bordeaux from which he collaborated with the Nazi S.S. and oversaw the deportation of 1,560 Jewish men, women, and children to concentration camps.

Read an biography of Maurice Papon from the BBC.

Massachusetts enacted Vietnam antiwar bill

On April 2, 1970, the Governor of Massachusetts signed into law an anti-Vietnam War bill providing that no inhabitant of Massachusetts inducted into or serving in the armed forces "shall be required to serve" abroad in an armed hostility that had not been declared a war by Congress under Article I, Section 8, clause 11 of the United States Constitution.

Supporters of the legislation hoped that the US Supreme Court would seize on the obvious conflict that the bill created between state and federal law and would rule on the constitutionality of the Vietnam War itself, but the Court refused to exercise original jurisdiction, forcing the case into the lower federal courts. See Anthony D'Amato, Massachusetts In The Federal Courts: The Constitutionality Of The Vietnam War [PDF], 4 Journal of Law Reform (1970).

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