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Mexico presidential challenger calls for ‘civil resistance’ in bid for manual recount
Jaime Jansen
July 17, 2006 08:01:00 am

Mexican leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , who lost the July 2 presidential election by 0.6 percent of the vote to conservative Felipe Calderon ,...

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News Guantanamo accusations questioned after review turns up basic errors
Guantanamo accusations questioned after review turns up basic errors
Jaime Jansen
July 14, 2006 01:38:00 pm

Accusations against Guantanamo Bay detainees made in declassified documents contain basic factual errors and easily-refuted claims, the Boston Globe reported Friday. After reviewing declassified records, Globe journalists uncovered a number of simple mistakes that they said...

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India names three Mumbai bombings suspects
Jaime Jansen
July 14, 2006 12:39:00 pm

Indian officials have named three suspects in Tuesday's Mumbai train bombings that killed some 180 people in seven different coordinated blasts after authorities detained 350 people for questioning Thursday. The suspects...

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News UN lacks legal basis for imposing Kosovo status solution: Russian diplomat
UN lacks legal basis for imposing Kosovo status solution: Russian diplomat
Jaime Jansen
July 14, 2006 11:37:00 am

Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said Thursday that the United Nations does not have the authority to compel Serbia on the status of Kosovo, and that the two parties need to reach a negotiated agreement on the...

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News Senate approves measure to bar emergency gun confiscation
Senate approves measure to bar emergency gun confiscation
Jaime Jansen
July 14, 2006 10:43:00 am

The US Senate approved an amendment to a Homeland Security Appropriations Act 2007 Thursday that would prohibit the confiscation of legally owned guns during emergencies by a margin of 84-16 ....

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Sarajevo court sentences Bosnian Muslim for 1993 war crimes against Serbs
Jaime Jansen
July 14, 2006 10:03:00 am

Sarajevo's Canton Court sentenced former Bosnian Army soldier Samir Bejtic to 14 1/2 years in prison Thursday for killing Bosnian Serbs in 1993 during the 1992-95 Bosnian war . A member of the Sarajevo-based Tenth Mountain...

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Saudi Arabia wants US to return Guantanamo nationals within a year
Jaime Jansen
July 14, 2006 09:27:00 am

Saudi Arabia would like to have all of its nationals held at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay returned to Saudi custody within one year, Saudi ambassador to the United States Prince Turki Al-Faisal [official...

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Ex-Guatemala dictator says Spanish arrest warrant on genocide charges unfounded
Jaime Jansen
July 14, 2006 08:59:00 am

Efrain Rios Montt , a former Guatemalan dictator, has called Spanish National Court Judge Santiago Pedraz's order for Montt's arrest last week unfounded, insisting that he did not know of any crimes against humanity committed by...

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Merck wins fourth Vioxx trial in New Jersey court
Jaime Jansen
July 14, 2006 08:01:00 am

A New Jersey state jury in Atlantic City found Merck not liable Thursday for a woman's heart attack, saying that Merck adequately warned doctors of the health risks from the company's painkiller Vioxx [Merck...

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Bush to press Putin on NGOs at G8 summit
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July 13, 2006 01:05:00 pm

US President George Bush has said he will tell Russian President Vladimir Putin that non-governmental organizations should be able to function "without intimidation" and that Russia needs to have an "active civil society"...

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President Lincoln signed first US federal income tax act

On July 1, 1862, the Tax Act of 1862 was passed and signed by President Lincoln, establishing a 3% federal tax on income above $600 and a 5% tax on income above $10,000.

Compliance with the act was poor, even though there were needs for the Civil War. After the war the act was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Review a brief history of the US income tax from the Library of Congress.

UK returns Hong Kong to China

On July 1, 1997, the United Kingdom returned Hong Kong to China at the conclusion of a 99-year lease. The foundation for the transfer of power was set in December of 1984, when China and UK signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong. The Declaration affirmed the handover of Hong Kong along with governing principles. Most significantly, the Chinese agreed not to impose their socialist system on Hong Kong.

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