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News Pennsylvania city illegal immigration law trial concludes
Pennsylvania city illegal immigration law trial concludes
Gabriel Haboubi
March 23, 2007 07:07:00 am

The federal trial of a lawsuit launched by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) challenging the constitutionality of two laws passed by the city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania that make it more difficult...

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EU says Microsoft still not complying with antitrust ruling
Gabriel Haboubi
March 22, 2007 07:47:00 pm

The European Commission (EC) Commissioner on Competition told the European Parliament Thursday that Microsoft continues to use "abusive" business practices which steadily...

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Northern Ireland airport considers rendition flight ban
Gabriel Haboubi
March 22, 2007 01:32:00 pm

Northern Ireland's publicly-owned City of Derry Airport and Amnesty International (AI) are discussing the implementation of an official policy barring the United States and its allies from using the airport for controversial rendition...

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EU developing international criminal fingerprint database
Gabriel Haboubi
March 16, 2007 05:57:00 pm

The European Commission (EC) plans to develop a common fingerprint database that includes data collected from criminals convicted of serious crimes within member states, a spokesperson announced Friday. EC spokesperson Ana-Paula Laiss denied claims made in the...

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March 16, 2007 05:04:00 pm

British coroner Andrew Walker ruled Friday that a US A-10 tank-buster "friendly fire" attack on a UK troop convoy that killed UK soldier Matty Hull "amounted to an assault. It was unlawful because there was...

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Khmer Rouge genocide trial rules agreement reached
Gabriel Haboubi
March 16, 2007 03:56:00 pm

Judges appointed to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) reached an agreement Friday on the most pressing points of contention over the Khmer Rouge genocide trial rules ...

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Gabriel Haboubi
March 15, 2007 08:37:00 pm

International police organization Interpol Thursday agreed to issue arrest notices for six men thought to be connected with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires ...

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Mexico City considers ending abortion ban
Gabriel Haboubi
March 15, 2007 07:51:00 pm

Legislators in Mexico City have begun deliberations on a bill that would legalize abortions during the first trimester of pregnancy. The bill, proposed by the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) , would...

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Canadian Guantanamo detainee to boycott trial
Gabriel Haboubi
March 8, 2007 12:39:00 pm

Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr told his mother Wednesday in the first phone call with his family since his capture in 2002 that he plans to do whatever he can to avoid appearing...

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Europe rights court considers claim by Norwegian children of Nazi soldiers
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March 8, 2007 11:45:00 am

The European Court of Human Rights held a hearing Thursday to determine the admissibility and merits of a case filed in 2003 by 159 children of Norwegian mothers and German fathers born during World War...

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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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