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News International brief ~ Nepal Supreme Court disbands royal anti-corruption commission
International brief ~ Nepal Supreme Court disbands royal anti-corruption commission
D. Wes Rist
February 13, 2006 08:22:00 am

Leading Monday's international brief, the Nepal Supreme Court has handed down an historic decision holding that the Royal Commission for Corruption Control (RCCC) , created by King Gyanendra following his dismissal of...

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News International brief ~ Zimbabwe minister says all white-run farms illegal
International brief ~ Zimbabwe minister says all white-run farms illegal
D. Wes Rist
February 10, 2006 09:26:00 am

Leading Friday's international brief, Zimbabwe Lands Minister Didymus Mutasa has told reporters that following controversial constitutional reforms that took effect last year, there are no longer any white farmers operating legally in Zimbabwe. Mutasa said on state...

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News International brief ~ Nepal protesters call for overthrow of king
International brief ~ Nepal protesters call for overthrow of king
D. Wes Rist
February 9, 2006 08:44:00 am

Leading Thursday's international brief, in one of the first directly anti-monarchial protests recorded in Nepal , over one thousand Nepalese citizens gathered to protest the death of a Nepalese protestor on Wednesday at the hands of...

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News International brief ~ Nepal army kills protester during municipal elections
International brief ~ Nepal army kills protester during municipal elections
D. Wes Rist
February 8, 2006 08:38:00 am

Leading Wednesday's international brief, soldiers of the Royal Nepalese Army fired indiscriminately into a crowd of protesters who were urging citizens to boycott the municipal elections held throughout Nepal, the first elections in seven years. The weapons-fire...

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News International brief ~ Sudan to consider UN peacekeepers for Darfur
International brief ~ Sudan to consider UN peacekeepers for Darfur
D. Wes Rist
February 7, 2006 07:06:00 am

Leading Tuesday's international brief, Sudanese Minister for Foreign Affairs al-Samani al-Wasiylah has said that Sudan has backed off its initial refusal to allow a UN peacekeeping force into the Darfur region , but would still...

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News International brief ~ Zimbabwe AG objects to proposed passport revocation law
International brief ~ Zimbabwe AG objects to proposed passport revocation law
D. Wes Rist
February 6, 2006 08:59:00 am

Leading Monday's international brief, in one of the first public signs of division inside the Zimbabwean government of President Robert Mugabe , the Zimbabwean Attorney General and the Zimbabwean Registrar General have expressed sharp disagreement concerning the proposed...

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News Amnesty blasts UK for ‘forgotten prisoners’ at Guantanamo
Amnesty blasts UK for ‘forgotten prisoners’ at Guantanamo
D. Wes Rist
February 6, 2006 08:28:00 am

Amnesty International (AI) Monday condemned as "shameful" the British government's inattention to the plight of nine long-term British residents currently being held at the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba, and called...

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News UK Conservatives call for limiting PM’s war power
UK Conservatives call for limiting PM’s war power
D. Wes Rist
February 6, 2006 08:15:00 am

UK Conservative Party leader David Cameron Monday urged a review of the traditionally-unilateral "royal prerogative" powers exercised by the prime minister in the name of the British monarch, including the powers to go...

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News International brief ~ 500 arrested in Nepal ‘Black Day’ protests against royal takeover
International brief ~ 500 arrested in Nepal ‘Black Day’ protests against royal takeover
D. Wes Rist
February 2, 2006 04:58:00 am

Leading Thursday's international brief, more than 500 people have been arrested in Nepal for protesting the autocratic rule of King Gyanendra on Wednesday, the one year anniversary of the 'Black Day' last February 1 when Gyanendra dismissed...

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News International brief ~ Ugandan court declares Besigye military trial illegal
International brief ~ Ugandan court declares Besigye military trial illegal
D. Wes Rist
February 1, 2006 08:29:00 am

Leading Wednesday's international brief, the Ugandan Constitutional Court has declared that a military court-martial of Ugandan opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye is illegal and ordered all charges against the defendant dropped. The...

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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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