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New Guantanamo Bay legal compound planned
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November 17, 2006 04:11:00 pm

The US military has preliminary plans to build a new legal compound at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba , where trials of detainees may begin to take place as early as June, the Miami Herald reported...

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Gabriel Haboubi
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German officials have expressed some concern about the future of the proposed European Constitution in light of positions taken by two leading rivals for the French presidency. Newly-chosen French Socialist Party candidate Segolene Royal [BBC...

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November 16, 2006 08:57:00 pm

US Army Spc. James P. Barker, who pleaded guilty Wednesday for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family in the Mahmudiya (also "Mahmoudiya") area in March,...

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November 16, 2006 08:05:00 pm

John Altenburg , appointed in 2003 by US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to oversee the military commissions trying terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay , has resigned...

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Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani announced on Al-Iraqiya state television Thursday that an arrest warrant has been issued for Harith al-Dhari , the most prominent leader of Iraq's Sunni minority, and head of the...

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November 9, 2006 09:27:00 pm

The president of Burundi admitted Thursday that instances of torture and brutality by police and members of the military do sometimes occur in the country, but told reporters in Paris that the perpetrators of those ‘isolated’...

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The US Army announced Thursday that it will push forward with a court martial of 1st Lt. Ehren Watada , an Army officer who refused deployment to Iraq and openly protested the war...

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November 8, 2006 12:59:00 pm

Arizona became the first US state to reject an amendment defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman after voters Tuesday narrowly rejected Proposition 107 , which would have amended the Arizona Constitution ...

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November 3, 2006 04:03:00 pm

The US Army said Friday that commanders on the ground have prevented Army Sgt. Santos A. Cardona , found guilty in June of abusing detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison ,...

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November 3, 2006 02:46:00 pm

British-based bank Barclays PLC announced Friday that it has reached an agreement with Enron to settle litigation in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York...

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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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