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Philippines police reluctant to enforce new anti-terror law: security adviser
Josh Camson
October 14, 2007 10:05:00 am

Philippine law enforcement officers are reluctant to use the powers allocated them in a new anti-terrorism law due to strict punishments provided for rights violations, according to a government security advisor speaking to AP Sunday. The controversial Human Security...

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Josh Camson
October 12, 2007 04:05:00 pm

Four Thai prosecutors traveled to London Friday to discuss the extradition of ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on corruption charges , in order to discuss what evidence is necessary in UK courts...

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Myanmar rejects UN denunciation of violent crackdown against protestors
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October 12, 2007 03:00:00 pm

Myanmar's military government Friday rejected a UN Security Council denunciation of its use of violence against peaceful demonstrators and its accompanying call on the government to release political prisoners and negotiate with the...

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Japan ruling party narrows scope of anti-terror bill
Josh Camson
October 7, 2007 10:38:00 am

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has submitted a new draft anti-terrorism law that would limit Japan's naval support for US operations in Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom to refueling and supplying water...

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October 7, 2007 09:57:00 am

Saudi Arabian Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz announced Saturday that 55 Saudi prisoners recently transferred from Guantanamo Bay back to their home country will be given a temporary release and stipend of...

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Convention on Psychotropic Substances signed

On February 21, 1971, the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances was signed in Vienna, Austria. The Convention was promulgated to regulate psychotropic drugs, extending the 1961 U.N. Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which applied to cannabis-, cocoa-, and opium-based drugs. In 1988, the U.N. Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances was promulgated to address international drug manufacture, possession, and distribution, primarily in organized crime.

175 nations are now parties to the Convention. Member nations have implemented the Convention in the form of domestic laws such as the U.S. Psychotropic Substances Act, the U.K. Misuse of Drugs Act, and the Canadian Controlled Substances Act.

Former Nixon AG Mitchell sentenced to prison for Watergate

On February 21, 1975, former US Attorney General John Mitchell, Nixon Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman and domestic adviser John Ehrlichman were sentenced to prison terms of 2 1/2 to 8 years for obstructing justice in the Watergate affair.

Learn more about John Mitchell from the Washington Post.

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