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News UK military officer suspected of leaking secret Afghanistan data to rights group
UK military officer suspected of leaking secret Afghanistan data to rights group
Jake Oresick
February 4, 2009 12:44:00 pm

The British Ministry of Defence (MOD) confirmed Wednesday that a UK Army officer was arrested in Afghanistan and returned to the London for questioning on suspicion of revealing secret information to a human rights...

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News ICC to weigh Palestinian Authority standing to bring Gaza war crimes case
ICC to weigh Palestinian Authority standing to bring Gaza war crimes case
Jake Oresick
February 4, 2009 11:55:00 am

International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Tuesday that Palestinian National Authority (PNA)  president Mahmoud Abbas had petitioned the court to exercise jurisdiction over possible war crimes committed in the Gaza Strip, but indicated...

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News ICJ rules for Romania in underwater oil reserves dispute with Ukraine
ICJ rules for Romania in underwater oil reserves dispute with Ukraine
Jake Oresick
February 3, 2009 12:48:00 pm

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) resolved a long-standing dispute between Ukraine and Romania Tuesday by drawing a new maritime border between the countries, giving Romania four-fifths of waters believed...

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News Australia court sentences Algerian cleric convicted of plotting terrorist attacks
Australia court sentences Algerian cleric convicted of plotting terrorist attacks
Jake Oresick
February 3, 2009 12:10:00 pm

Australia's Supreme Court of Victoria Tuesday sentenced Algerian cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika , also known as Abu Bakr, to at least 12 years in prison for his role in plotting large-scale terror attacks aimed...

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Japan orders navy to engage pirates despite constitutional risk
Jake Oresick
January 28, 2009 01:54:00 pm

Japanese defense minister Yasukazu Hamada on Wednesday ordered the country's Maritime Self-Defense Force to prepare to travel to the waters surrounding Somalia to combat piracy in the region, despite concerns that combat could...

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Malawi court rules ex-president can be investigated for corruption
Jake Oresick
January 28, 2009 01:02:00 pm

Former Malawi President Bakili Muluzi will likely be tried for corruption after the country's Supreme Court of Appeal Tuesday struck down an injunction that had stalled the investigation into his alleged theft of international aid money. Muluzi...

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Canada court upholds media blackout in terrorism trial
Jake Oresick
January 27, 2009 12:59:00 pm

The Ontario Court of Appeal Monday affirmed a lower court ruling that prohibits the media from reporting on the terrorism trial of a group known as the "Toronto 18" . The 3-2 decision...

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US to continue sending Guantanamo detainees to Saudi Arabia: Pentagon
Jake Oresick
January 27, 2009 12:15:00 pm

A spokesperson for the US Department of Defense (DOD) said Monday that the US will not change its policy on the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to Saudi Arabia, despite reports that two former...

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Khadr admitted throwing grenade that killed soldier: US interrogator
Jake Oresick
January 20, 2009 12:34:00 pm

Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr admitted throwing a hand grenade that killed a US soldier in Afghanistan, according to the pre-trial testimony Monday of an American intelligence official. The official, identified as Interrogator 11,...

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Russia amends constitution to extend presidential terms
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December 30, 2008 01:02:00 pm

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday signed into law amendments to the Russian Constitution extending presidential terms from four to six years and terms for parliament members [Article...

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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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