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ICTY knew Milosevic had access to drugs, alcohol: officials
Joshua Pantesco
March 14, 2006 08:38:00 pm

Two anonymous officials at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said Tuesday that the Tribunal had been informed several times by the ICTY prison warden that former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic ,...

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News Energy executives defend high prices, mergers at Judiciary Committee hearing
Energy executives defend high prices, mergers at Judiciary Committee hearing
Joshua Pantesco
March 14, 2006 08:00:00 pm

Top executives from Exxon, Chevron, Shell and other major oil companies told members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing Tuesday that high oil prices could be reduced by opening onshore and offshore locations...

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News US Interior Secretary Norton resigns, leaving legal problems behind
US Interior Secretary Norton resigns, leaving legal problems behind
Joshua Pantesco
March 10, 2006 03:16:00 pm

US Interior Secretary Gale Norton resigned from the Bush cabinet Friday after a five-year run, and will officially leave office at the end of March. In her resignation letter , the former Colorado Attorney General...

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News Military contractor fined $10 million for defrauding US administration in Iraq
Military contractor fined $10 million for defrauding US administration in Iraq
Joshua Pantesco
March 10, 2006 02:48:00 pm

A federal jury has found private military contractor Custer Battles guilty of 37 fraudulent acts against the US Coalition Provisional Authority in the first application of the federal False Claims Act against an Iraq...

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Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal selection process underway
Joshua Pantesco
March 10, 2006 12:14:00 pm

Both the UN and Cambodia have submitted "short lists" of possible judges for the Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal that will be probing crimes against humanity by the Cambodian communist regime...

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News Zimbabwe police arrest 15 for plotting Mugabe overthrow
Zimbabwe police arrest 15 for plotting Mugabe overthrow
Joshua Pantesco
March 10, 2006 11:53:00 am

Zimbabwean police have arrested 15 members of the opposition group Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) after reportedly uncovering a collection of stockpiled weapons connected to the clandestine Zimbabwe Freedom Movement (ZFM) , a group established in 2003...

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China creates special intellectual property court
Joshua Pantesco
March 10, 2006 11:50:00 am

China has established a Judicial Court of Intellectual Property to handle piracy and intellectual property cases nationwide, according to a court spokesman speaking Friday at a Beijing news conference held during the annual meeting of the parliamentary National People's...

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News Jury empanelled in Moussaoui sentencing trial
Jury empanelled in Moussaoui sentencing trial
Joshua Pantesco
March 6, 2006 12:13:00 pm

US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema on Monday sat 12 jurors and 6 alternates in the sentencing trial of al Qaeda co-conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui following several weeks of jury selection . While Moussaoui's...

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News Vioxx long-term use trial underway in New Jersey
Vioxx long-term use trial underway in New Jersey
Joshua Pantesco
March 6, 2006 11:53:00 am

Opening statements began Monday in the second New Jersey state trial against New Jersey-based Merck over their distribution of the painkiller Vioxx . Although a New Jersey jury found Merck...

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Former South Africa deputy president pleads not guilty to rape charges
Joshua Pantesco
March 6, 2006 11:24:00 am

During a closed session of the Johannesburg High Court on Monday, former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma pleaded not guilty to charges that he raped a guest staying at his house. The guest, a woman who...

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Georgia became first US state to ban lynching

On December 20, 1893, Georgia became the first state in the Union to pass a law against lynching, making the act punishable by four years in prison.

The statute was not particularly effective - read the text of the 1899 pamphlet Lynch Law in Georgia by anti-lynching activist Ida Wells-Barnett.

UN Drug Trafficking Convention signed

On December 20, 1988, the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances was signed in Vienna, Austria. The treaty provides mechanisms for international coordination in preventing the manufacture and distribution of drugs worldwide. Over 170 countries have signed the treaty to date.

Learn more about the treaty from the UN.

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