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News Annan to propose Security Council expansion, rights panel changes at UN
Annan to propose Security Council expansion, rights panel changes at UN
Alexandria Samuel
March 19, 2005 02:32:00 pm

Saturday's Los Angeles Times reports that UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan will propose significant changes to the organization at a General Assembly meeting Monday. According to a draft copy of Annan's scheduled Report on Larger Freedom [available on...

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News Former Serbian PM says CIA agents helped search for war crimes suspect
Former Serbian PM says CIA agents helped search for war crimes suspect
Alexandria Samuel
March 18, 2005 03:22:00 pm

Former Serbian prime minister Zoran Zivkovic said Friday that in 2003 CIA agents aided Serbian police in dozens of unsuccessful attempts to capture former commander General Ratko Mladic . Mladic is accused of atrocities and...

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News Wal-Mart to pay $11M to settle DOJ illegal immigrant labor case
Wal-Mart to pay $11M to settle DOJ illegal immigrant labor case
Alexandria Samuel
March 18, 2005 02:41:00 pm

Retail giant Wal-Mart agreed Friday to pay $11 million to settle US Department of Justice allegations that it had employed hundreds of illegal immigrants to perform janitorial services in 60 stores across the country. The...

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News Taiwanese to protest China ‘anti-secession’ law
Taiwanese to protest China ‘anti-secession’ law
Alexandria Samuel
March 5, 2005 03:57:00 pm

Thousands in Taiwan are expected to protest China's proposed anti-secession law in demonstrations Sunday. The proposed legislation authorizes China to take military action if Taiwan declares formal independence from the mainland. In Saturday's the opening spring session...

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Dutch parliament considers new terror laws
Alexandria Samuel
March 5, 2005 02:48:00 pm

The Dutch Parliament's lower house passed a new terror bill Friday that will lower the level of evidence needed to hold a terror suspect, allow the government to hold suspects for up to two...

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News German court denies retailer’s Nazi reparations claim
German court denies retailer’s Nazi reparations claim
Alexandria Samuel
March 5, 2005 02:05:00 pm

A Berlin administrative court Friday dismissed the title and reparation claim of Germany's largest department store operator, and ordered the government to pay compensation directly to the heirs of a Jewish family that owned property taken by the Nazi...

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News Bush sets new EPA chief to work on ‘Clear Skies’ bill
Bush sets new EPA chief to work on ‘Clear Skies’ bill
Alexandria Samuel
March 4, 2005 11:50:00 am

President Bush Friday nominated acting Environmental Protection Agency administrator Stephen Johnson to fill the job permanently. In White House remarks, the President said: ... his immediate task is to work with Congress to pass my...

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News US citizen indicted for attempting to sell spy list to Iraq
US citizen indicted for attempting to sell spy list to Iraq
Alexandria Samuel
March 4, 2005 11:14:00 am

A federal grand jury in Indianapolis Indiana has indicted Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban on charges he tried to sell the names of US intelligence operatives in Iraq to Saddam Hussein's government. Charges outlined in the indictment include conspiracy,...

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News Bosnian Muslim commander pleads not guilty at war crimes tribunal
Bosnian Muslim commander pleads not guilty at war crimes tribunal
Alexandria Samuel
March 3, 2005 12:52:00 pm

Rasim Delic , the former commander of Bosnia's Muslim army during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, pleaded not guilty Thursday in his first appearance before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague on charges...

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Former Canadian PM wants court to oust sponsorship inquiry chair
Alexandria Samuel
March 3, 2005 12:30:00 pm

Lawyers for former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien filed a motion in Canada's Federal Court Thursday to remove Justice John Gomery from the chairmanship of a judicial commission of inquiry [Gomery...

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US House voted to impeach President Clinton

On December 19, 1998, a divided US House of Representatives voted to impeach President Bill Clinton on charges of lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice in the Monica Lewinsky affair.

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On December 19, 1984, the United Kingdom and China signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which ceded control of Hong Kong to the government of mainland China in 1997. The treaty also ensured that Hong Kong would retain its capitalist and democratic systems for at least 50 year after the transfer of power.

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