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News Hasina elected Bangladesh PM in heavily-monitored elections
Hasina elected Bangladesh PM in heavily-monitored elections
Devin Montgomery
December 30, 2008 12:45:00 pm

The Bangladesh Election Commission (BEC) on Tuesday released results for the country's Monday elections, in which voters elected Sheikh Hasina as prime minister and members of her Bangladesh Awami League party as...

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News China dairy companies to pay $160 million in compensation for contaminated milk
China dairy companies to pay $160 million in compensation for contaminated milk
Devin Montgomery
December 30, 2008 10:49:00 am

Twenty-two Chinese dairy companies are expected to pay a total of $160 million to compensate the families of nearly 300,000 children harmed by melamine-contaminated milk , according to a Tuesday report by China Daily. Government sources...

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News UK court rules suspects may be transferred to Iraq custody
UK court rules suspects may be transferred to Iraq custody
Devin Montgomery
December 19, 2008 05:06:00 pm

A panel of the UK High Court of Justice ruled Friday that Iraqis Faisal Attiyah Nassar al-Saadoon and Khalaf Hussain Mufdhi, suspected in the 2003 deaths of two British soldiers , may be transferred...

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Luxembourg parliament limits monarch’s legislative role
Devin Montgomery
December 12, 2008 11:57:00 am

The Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies on Thursday voted to amend the country's constitution to eliminate the requirement that its Grand Duke approve legislation before it becomes law. The country's parliament passed...

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News US detainee abuses approved by senior officials: Senate report
US detainee abuses approved by senior officials: Senate report
Devin Montgomery
December 12, 2008 09:54:00 am

US senators Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ) on Thursday released the executive summary of a Senate Armed Services Committee report that says senior US officials are to blame for...

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Cambodia genocide court adds charges against Khmer Rouge leader ‘Duch’
Devin Montgomery
December 5, 2008 03:35:00 pm

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) said Friday that it would add charges of murder and torture to the case against Khmer Rouge leader Kaing Guek-Eav...

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Morocco court sentences Madrid train bombers supporter
Devin Montgomery
December 5, 2008 02:41:00 pm

A Moroccan court on Friday sentenced Hicham Ahmidan to 10 years in prison for his role in the 2004 Madrid train bombings , which killed almost 200 people. Ahmidan, who was...

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DOJ objects to stay of US military execution
Devin Montgomery
December 3, 2008 04:34:00 pm

US Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers on Tuesday filed a challenge to a federal judge's decision to stay the execution of convicted murder suspect US Army private Ronald Gray. Judge Richard Rogers for the US...

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Massachusetts Catholic diocese settles abuse claims in arbitration
Devin Montgomery
December 3, 2008 11:52:00 am

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Massachusetts announced Tuesday that it has settled 59 sexual abuse claims against the church through voluntary arbitration. The total amount for the settlements was $4.5 million with individual awards...

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Thailand court disbands ruling party, bans PM
Devin Montgomery
December 2, 2008 09:29:00 am

The Constitutional Court of Thailand on Tuesday ordered the dissolution of the ruling People's Power Party (PPP) , and banned prime minister Somchai Wongsawat from politics for...

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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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