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News Argentina court sentences former police official to life for Dirty War crimes
Argentina court sentences former police official to life for Dirty War crimes
Brett Murphy
September 20, 2006 10:54:00 am

Miguel Osvaldo Etchecolatz , former chief investigator of the Buenos Aires province police, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday for his role during the Dirty War in Argentina . With the conviction,...

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News Gonzales urges Congress to require ISP retention of customer data in child porn fight
Gonzales urges Congress to require ISP retention of customer data in child porn fight
Brett Murphy
September 19, 2006 02:23:00 pm

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told members of the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Tuesday that Congress should mandate the preservation of customer records by Internet service providers in order to aid the...

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FCC chairman orders investigation into ‘destroyed’ media ownership studies
Brett Murphy
September 19, 2006 02:06:00 pm

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has directed the FCC's inspector general to investigate the alleged concealment of a 2004 draft working paper on television ownership and a...

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News London police plead not guilty in subway shooting of Brazilian
London police plead not guilty in subway shooting of Brazilian
Brett Murphy
September 19, 2006 01:38:00 pm

The London Metropolitan Police pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to criminal charges under the 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act for "failing to provide for the health, safety and welfare" of the public in...

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Saddam genocide trial chief judge removed at government insistence
Brett Murphy
September 19, 2006 01:20:00 pm

Chief Judge Abdullah al-Amiri was removed from presiding over the second Saddam Hussein trial on Tuesday, Al-Iraqiya state television reported. A replacement judge, who has not yet been named, has been requested by the Iraqi prime...

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Portugal abortion referendum proposed
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September 16, 2006 03:17:00 pm

Voters in Portugal could go to the polls in January 2007 to vote in a referendum on the legalization of abortion after the ruling Socialist Party made the proposal [press release, in...

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US Army adds to charges against officer who refused service in ‘illegal’ Iraq war
Brett Murphy
September 16, 2006 02:08:00 pm

A US Army spokesman said Friday that the Army has added a new specification to charges against 1st Lt. Ehren Watada based on a speech he gave in August to Veterans for...

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Congo needs to prosecute ‘out of control’ army sex abuse: UN humanitarian chief
Brett Murphy
September 16, 2006 01:23:00 pm

UN humanitarian coordinator Jan Egeland told the UN Security Council on Friday that sexual abuse of women and girls by soldiers in the strife-torn Democratic Republic of Congo "has become a cancer in Congolese...

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Mexico street protest against contested presidential election result ends
Brett Murphy
September 16, 2006 10:43:00 am

Leftist protestors objecting to the official results of Mexico's July 2 presidential election took down their so-called "resistance camps" on Mexico City's Reforma Avenue Friday. Supporters of losing candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador [campaign website, in...

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US judge dismisses Sudan genocide lawsuit against Canadian energy company
Brett Murphy
September 12, 2006 01:42:00 pm

US District Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Canadian oil and gas producer Talisman Energy aided genocide in order to access oil...

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President Lincoln signed first US federal income tax act

On July 1, 1862, the Tax Act of 1862 was passed and signed by President Lincoln, establishing a 3% federal tax on income above $600 and a 5% tax on income above $10,000.

Compliance with the act was poor, even though there were needs for the Civil War. After the war the act was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Review a brief history of the US income tax from the Library of Congress.

UK returns Hong Kong to China

On July 1, 1997, the United Kingdom returned Hong Kong to China at the conclusion of a 99-year lease. The foundation for the transfer of power was set in December of 1984, when China and UK signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong. The Declaration affirmed the handover of Hong Kong along with governing principles. Most significantly, the Chinese agreed not to impose their socialist system on Hong Kong.

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