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News Former Gitmo prisoners arrested in Russia, rights group says
Former Gitmo prisoners arrested in Russia, rights group says
Holly Manges Jones
August 31, 2005 11:23:00 am

Human rights group Amnesty International reported Tuesday that two men who were formerly held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp have been detained in Russia by men claiming to be...

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News US court freezes Palestinian assets due to unpaid damages
US court freezes Palestinian assets due to unpaid damages
Holly Manges Jones
August 31, 2005 10:52:00 am

A US federal court has frozen the Palestinian Authority's access to assets held in the US after it failed to pay $116 in damages for the 1996 shooting deaths of an American citizen and his Israeli wife. After the...

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China ratifies World Health Organization tobacco treaty
Holly Manges Jones
August 29, 2005 04:06:00 pm

China's Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress (NPC) has ratified the international World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control , created earlier this year as the first international legal means to...

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News Corruption allegations made against Egyptian presidential confidante
Corruption allegations made against Egyptian presidential confidante
Holly Manges Jones
August 29, 2005 03:25:00 pm

The former chairman of Egypt's largest state-owned newspaper allegedly took millions of dollars in secret payments, according to a report by Cairo's El-Osboa newspaper . Ibrahim Nafie became chairman of the Al-Ahram press group...

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News Deportation hearing starts for former CIA operative
Deportation hearing starts for former CIA operative
Holly Manges Jones
August 29, 2005 03:02:00 pm

An immigration judge held a hearing Monday to determine if former anti-Castro CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles should be granted asylum to the US after illegally entering through Mexico earlier this year. Venezuelan officials have...

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News KPMG reaches $456 million settlement to avoid prosecution for tax fraud
KPMG reaches $456 million settlement to avoid prosecution for tax fraud
Holly Manges Jones
August 29, 2005 02:07:00 pm

KPMG agreed to pay $456 million Monday in a settlement that will allow the accounting firm to avoid federal criminal prosecution for selling abusive tax shelters enabling wealthy individuals to evade income tax liabilities during 1996-2002. KPMG...

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News Judge questions continued detention of Gitmo Uighurs cleared for release
Judge questions continued detention of Gitmo Uighurs cleared for release
Holly Manges Jones
August 25, 2005 04:52:00 pm

A federal judge met with Justice Department lawyer Terry Henry Thursday to discuss why the US has not yet released two Chinese Uighur Muslims still held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp after the government determined...

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News California sues 39 pharmaceutical companies for inflating drug prices
California sues 39 pharmaceutical companies for inflating drug prices
Holly Manges Jones
August 25, 2005 04:26:00 pm

California's Attorney General Bill Lockyer said Thursday that the state is suing 39 pharmaceutical companies for concealing the actual costs of their drugs in an attempt to artificially inflate payments from California's Medicaid program. Lockyer...

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Iran calls for more negotiations on nuclear program
Holly Manges Jones
August 25, 2005 04:00:00 pm

Iran said Thursday that it is working on a new proposal to negotiate with the West regarding its nuclear program, expressing an interest in negotiating with countries other than Great Britain, France and Germany. The three core...

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EU official: Ethiopian elections resulted in human rights violations
Holly Manges Jones
August 25, 2005 02:12:00 pm

The chief observer of the European Union Election Observation Mission to Ethiopia 2005 (EU EOM) said Thursday that the country's May 15 parliamentary elections did not meet international voting standards. In the first EU report released since...

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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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