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Italian PM calls latest corruption case ‘baseless’
Elizabeth Schultz
February 19, 2006 11:59:00 am

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi , facing possible indictment for allegedly bribing his former lawyer to give false testimony in two criminal cases, told supporters at a campaign rally in Verona Saturday that the...

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Elizabeth Schultz
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Influential radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has parted ways with his partners in the biggest Iraqi parliamentary bloc by rejecting the federal system described in the new Iraqi constitution . Al-Sadr told...

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Elizabeth Schultz
February 19, 2006 10:15:00 am

A Saturday protest by Nigerian Muslims in the northeastern city of Maiduguru over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad led to sectarian violence in which at least 15 people were killed, 15 Christian churches...

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Yemen to prosecute newspaper editors for publishing Muhammad cartoons
Elizabeth Schultz
February 12, 2006 11:28:00 am

The government of Yemen has announced it will prosecute the editors of three privately owned Yemeni newspapers, the Yemen Observer , al-Ra'i el-Am and al-Huriya, for offending Islam after the newspapers reprinted caricatures of...

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Confusion surrounds possible Saddam hunger strike
Elizabeth Schultz
February 12, 2006 10:58:00 am

Saddam Hussein chief defense counsel Khalil Dulaimi and an associate told reporters Sunday that Saddam and his seven co-defendants would begin a hunger strike Monday to protest the legitimacy of the proceedings against them but shortly...

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Britain's Ministry of Defense has said it will launch an investigation into video images published Sunday in the British News of the World tabloid which show British soldiers beating four young Iraqi men they...

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Current and former intelligence officials and private sector sources, speaking anonymously, have said that the National Security Agency warrantless surveillance program monitoring communication coming from outside the US to US residents has yielded few actionable results,...

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February 5, 2006 10:41:00 am

Thousands of Lebanese Muslims angered at caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September and last week were reprinted in other European newspapers protested outside the Danish...

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Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki confirmed Sunday that Iran had ceased cooperating with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) , allowing the country to resume uranium enrichment without being subject to IAEA inspections. The move, ordered Saturday...

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The Saddam Hussein trial resumed briefly Sunday under new Kurdish chief judge Ra'uf Rasheed Abdel-Rahman but was adjourned again after Hussein, defense lawyers, and two co-defendants left the courtroom protesting the earlier removal of...

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US suffragists formed Equal Rights Party, named Presidential candidate

On September 20, 1884, a group of American suffragists formed the Equal Rights Party in San Francisco, dedicated to "equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens, without distinction of color, sex, or nationality" and in support of the proposition that "the laws of the several states be so amended that women will be recognized as voters, and their property-rights made equal with that of the male population, to the end that they may become self-supporting - rather than a dependent class."
Read the full text of the first platform of the Equal Rights Party.

The party immediately nominated Mrs. Belva Lockwood for US President and Marietta Snow for Vice-President. Grover Cleveland won that election, but Lockwood was included in a number of presidential primaries, and is recorded to have won some 4149 votes from the male voters of the time.

Catholic Church tries Galileo for heresy

On September 20, 1633, the Roman Catholic Church tried Galileo Galilei on charges of heresy. Galileo was brought before the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith for his assertion that the Earth orbits the Sun. He was sentenced to spend the rest of his life under house arrest.
Read documents from the trial of Galileo.

Suffragists formed Equal Rights Party, named Presidential candidate

On September 20, 1884, a group of suffragists formed the Equal Rights Party in San Francisco, dedicated to "equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens, without distinction of color, sex, or nationality" and in support of the proposition that "the laws of the several states be so amended that women will be recognized as voters, and their property-rights made equal with that of the male population, to the end that they may become self-supporting - rather than a dependent class."
Read the full text of the first platform of the Equal Rights Party.

The party immediately nominated Mrs. Belva Lockwood for US President and Marietta Snow for Vice-President. Grover Cleveland won that election, but Lockwood was included in a number of presidential primaries, and is recorded to have won some 4149 votes from the male voters of the time.

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