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News Italian PM calls latest corruption case ‘baseless’
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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News Radical Shiite cleric al-Sadr rejects Iraq constitution
Radical Shiite cleric al-Sadr rejects Iraq constitution
Elizabeth Schultz
February 19, 2006 11:28:00 am

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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News Muhammad cartoons furor kills 15 in Nigeria as Saudi papers print newspaper apology
Muhammad cartoons furor kills 15 in Nigeria as Saudi papers print newspaper apology
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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News Yemen to prosecute newspaper editors for publishing Muhammad cartoons
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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News Confusion surrounds possible Saddam hunger strike
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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UK to investigate video of troops beating Iraqi detainees
Elizabeth Schultz
February 12, 2006 10:44:00 am

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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News Domestic surveillance program said to provide few terror leads
Domestic surveillance program said to provide few terror leads
Elizabeth Schultz
February 5, 2006 01:10:00 pm

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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News Danish embassy in Beirut burned over Muhammad cartoons
Danish embassy in Beirut burned over Muhammad cartoons
Elizabeth Schultz
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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Iran confirms end of cooperation with IAEA after UN referral
Elizabeth Schultz
February 5, 2006 10:08:00 am

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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News Saddam trial adjourned again after outbursts, walkouts, ejections
Saddam trial adjourned again after outbursts, walkouts, ejections
Elizabeth Schultz
January 29, 2006 09:52:00 am

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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Accused Nazi war criminal, John Demjanjuk, put on trial in Israel

On February 16, 1987, accused Nazi war criminal, John Demjanjuk, went on trial in Jerusalem, Israel. The prosecution claimed that Demjanjuk was a notorious prison guard known as "Ivan the Terrible" at the Treblinka extermination camp during World War II. On this basis, Demjanjuk was convicted by the Israeli court of crimes against humanity. However, in August 1993, the conviction overturned by Israel's Supreme Court on a finding of reasonable doubt.

After the decision by the Supreme Court of Israel, Demjanjuk was returned to the United States, where he had been moved after World War II. On December 22, 2006, the U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals ordered him deported to the Ukraine on a finding that he had been a guard at other Nazi concentration camps.

American feminist arrested for advocating birth control

On February 16, 1916, feminist and anarchist Emma Goldman was arrested in New York City for advocating birth control.

Learn more about Emma Goldman and her defense of reproductive rights from the University of California, Berkeley.

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