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Australian citizen executed by Singapore for drug conviction
Joshua Pantesco
December 1, 2005 07:19:00 pm

Convicted drug trafficker and Australian citizen Van Tuong Nguyen was executed by Singapore Thursday, despite a strong plea for clemency submitted by the Australian government to the president of Singapore. Nguyen was caught with 14 ounces of...

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News Ex-Hollinger CEO Black pleads not guilty to 8 fraud counts
Ex-Hollinger CEO Black pleads not guilty to 8 fraud counts
Joshua Pantesco
December 1, 2005 06:53:00 pm

Conrad Black , press baron and former chairman of Hollinger International, pleaded not guilty to eight fraud charges during his arraignment in Chicago Thursday. Along with other former Hollinger executives, he is accused by the US government of...

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News Italian judge denies immunity claim of CIA agent accused in kidnapping plot
Italian judge denies immunity claim of CIA agent accused in kidnapping plot
Joshua Pantesco
November 29, 2005 07:11:00 pm

An Italian judge ruled Tuesday that a former CIA station chief in Milan is not protected by diplomatic immunity, upholding an arrest warrant issued for his alleged participation in the kidnapping of Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr [Wikipedia...

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News Mexico Supreme Court allows extradition of life prisoners
Mexico Supreme Court allows extradition of life prisoners
Joshua Pantesco
November 29, 2005 06:56:00 pm

The Supreme Court of Mexico ruled Tuesday that prisoners serving life sentences can be extradited abroad, overturning a 2001 decision that prevented such prisoners from answering to charges in the US insofar as punishment there...

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DOJ defends use of National Security Letters
Joshua Pantesco
November 29, 2005 06:15:00 pm

US Assistant Attorney General William E. Moschella defended the use of National Security Letters in a 10-page letter sent to the Chairmen of the US House and Senate Judiciary Committees Tuesday, rebutting...

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Israel parliament passes dissolution bill following Sharon exit from Likud
Joshua Pantesco
November 21, 2005 07:38:00 pm

The Israeli Knesset voted 84-0 Monday in favor of a preliminary motion to dissolve itself shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon defected from the right-wing Likud political party he helped...

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Abramoff lobbying partner pleads guilty to congressional bribery charge
Joshua Pantesco
November 21, 2005 07:18:00 pm

Lobbyist Michael Scanlon pleaded guilty in federal district court Monday to one count of bribery, a charge anticipated after a DOJ criminal information disclosed Friday accused him of defrauding Indian clients and "providing things of...

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Ex-UN human rights chief says US record on detainees weakening influence on rights
Joshua Pantesco
November 21, 2005 06:52:00 pm

Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson said in an interview with Reuters reported Monday that the US has lost international influence due to its position on the Iraq war and the its record on...

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IAEA not referring Iran to UN Security Council for nuclear program
Joshua Pantesco
November 21, 2005 06:20:00 pm

Anonymous officials revealed Monday that a US-European coalition has backed down from earlier threats to refer Iran to the UN Security Council to account for its allegedly unsafe nuclear program. The officials say the...

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Southern GOPers to challenge Voting Rights Act extension
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November 19, 2005 05:20:00 pm

A small minority of southern Republicans have announced their intention to challenge the renewal of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act , currently being evaluated by Congress for a 25-year renewal on the grounds that it...

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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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