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News Microsoft co-founder sues 11 major web companies over patents
Microsoft co-founder sues 11 major web companies over patents
Daniel Makosky
August 28, 2010 02:05:06 pm

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen filed suit Friday against Apple, eBay, Google and eight other corporations in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington , claiming the infringement of four patents related...

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News Federal judge sends immigration law decision to Nebraska high court
Federal judge sends immigration law decision to Nebraska high court
Daniel Makosky
August 27, 2010 08:33:22 am

US District Judge Laurie Smith Camp ruled Wednesday that the Nebraska Supreme Court should be the first forum to address a city of Fremont ordinance banning the hiring, harboring or renting of property to...

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News Spain extradites Montenegrin war crimes suspect to Bosnia
Spain extradites Montenegrin war crimes suspect to Bosnia
Daniel Makosky
August 27, 2010 07:16:05 am

Bosnia and Herzegovina's Presidency Chairman Zeljko Komsic announced Thursday that Spanish officials extradited accused Montenegrin war criminal Veselin Vlahovic to Sarajevo. Vlahovic, known as the "monster of Grbavica," is wanted on...

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News Iraqi convicted of killing UK aid worker escapes prison
Iraqi convicted of killing UK aid worker escapes prison
Daniel Makosky
August 22, 2010 03:29:27 pm

Iraqi Deputy Justice Minister Busho Ibrahim disclosed Sunday that Ali Lutfi Jassar al-Rawi, convicted last year of the 2004 kidnapping and murder of British aid worker Margaret Hassan , escaped custody last...

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US military judge rejects Khadr torture claims
Daniel Makosky
August 21, 2010 01:59:50 pm

US military judge Army Colonel Patrick Parrish rejected claims by Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr that his confession was a byproduct of torture, in a ruling released Friday....

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UN staff protection treaty coming into force after UK ratification
Daniel Makosky
August 15, 2010 09:25:28 am

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Friday praised the United Kingdom's recent ratification of a treaty designed to extend legal safeguards to UN and humanitarian personnel participating in relief efforts. With the UK's formal approval of the...

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Supreme Court permits Guantanamo detainees’ return to Algeria
Daniel Makosky
July 17, 2010 03:32:09 pm

The US Supreme Court on Friday declined to review the decision of a lower court permitting the government to transfer Guantanamo Bay detainee Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed to Algeria....

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EU judges reject US extradition request for Kosovo terror suspect
Daniel Makosky
July 17, 2010 02:06:01 pm

A panel of EU judges on Friday declined a request from US officials to extradite Kosovo terror suspect Bajram Asllani. Nicholas Hawton, a spokesperson for the EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) , stated that the...

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Hundreds protest Spain abortion law changes in run-up to implementation
Daniel Makosky
July 3, 2010 01:15:55 pm

Hundreds of Spaniards gathered outside Spain's Constitutional Court in Madrid Saturday to protest recently approved changes to the country's abortion laws. Demonstrators representing roughly 60 anti-abortion organizations , including Right to...

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Turkish minority party files suit to block proposed constitutional amendments
Daniel Makosky
May 14, 2010 02:48:49 pm

Turkey's opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) filed suit in the country's Constitutional Court Friday in an effort to halt proposed constitutional amendments offered by the ruling Justice...

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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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UK signs Hong Kong over to China

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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