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AU official accuses ICC chief prosecutor of ‘double standards’
Drew Singer
January 30, 2011 01:54:08 pm

African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Jean Ping said on Saturday that International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo is guilty of double standards by targeting citizens of African states for...

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UN SG rejects calls for Ivory Coast recount
Drew Singer
January 30, 2011 11:33:08 am

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday told members of the African Union (AU) that a recount of November's Ivory Coast presidential runoff election results would be a "grave injustice...

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Belarus releases 7 detainees, including presidential candidate
Drew Singer
January 30, 2011 10:28:17 am

Belarusian officials on Saturday released seven people, including one presidential candidate, who were taken in to custody last month following protests surrounding the country's presidential election . The release comes amid speculation that the...

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News Russia president signs bill ratifying New START nuclear treaty
Russia president signs bill ratifying New START nuclear treaty
Drew Singer
January 28, 2011 02:36:43 pm

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev on Friday signed into law a bill that ratifies the New Start treaty , an agreement between Russia and the US intended to reduce nuclear arms...

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Wyoming Senate advances amendment banning same-sex marriage
Drew Singer
January 28, 2011 01:44:35 pm

The Wyoming Senate on Thursday voted 20-10 in favor of Joint Resolution 5 , the first step to a constitutional amendment that would prevent the state from recognizing same-sex marriages from...

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Cell phone company sues FCC over net neutrality rules
Drew Singer
January 27, 2011 08:39:21 am

MetroPCS , the fifth-largest cell phone company in the US, said Tuesday that it has filed an appeal challenging new net neutrality rules that will allow the government to regulate Internet traffic. Roger...

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Guatemala ex-president begins embezzlement trial
Drew Singer
January 22, 2011 12:51:28 pm

Former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo went to trial on Friday facing charges of embezzlement . Portillo denies accusations that he diverted approximately USD $15 million in funds from the Ministry of Defense while he...

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Haiti to probe alleged rights violations by former dictator: report
Drew Singer
January 22, 2011 12:39:46 pm

Amnesty International (AI) announced Friday that Haitian authorities will investigate crimes committed against humanity allegedly committed under the rule of Jean-Claude Duvalier during the 1970s and 80s. The announcement comes one day after...

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Drew Singer
January 21, 2011 02:29:53 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Friday denied a request to throw out the conviction of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani...

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Serbia court sentences 9 Albanians for war crimes
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January 21, 2011 02:00:32 pm

Nine former ethnic Albanian guerrillas have been sentenced to a total of 101 years in prison for killings committed after the Kosovo war ended. Belgrade's War Crimes Chamber of the Senior Court...

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Thomas Becket, former Chancellor of England, murdered by Henry II's knights

On December 29, 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket, former Chancellor of England, was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by knights acting in the name of Henry II.

Becket and Henry had been entangled in a power struggle over, among other things, criminal jurisdiction over clergy. Read a contemporary account of the murder of Thomas Becket.

Texas attains U.S. statehood

On December 29, 1845, Texas became the twenty-eighth state to join the United States of America when U.S. President James K. Polk signed the Ordinance of Annexation. Texas had a complicated path to statehood, because it had formerly been part of Mexico and then an independent republic. The U.S. Congress passed the Annexation of the Republic of Texas Joint Resolution on March 1, 1845. Voters in Texas then approved the Ordinance of Annexation in October, before it was approved by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Polk on this day in 1845.

The U.S. Supreme Court later ruled in Texas v. White that, despite its unique path to statehood, Texas did not have the right to secede from the union.

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