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News Libya court sentences foreign medics to death in second HIV infection trial
Libya court sentences foreign medics to death in second HIV infection trial
Jeannie Shawl
December 19, 2006 08:19:00 am

Five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor were convicted and sentenced to death Tuesday for knowingly infecting over 400 Libyan patients, primarily children, with the HIV virus. This is the second time a Libyan court has convicted the medics;...

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News Australia terror suspects plead not guilty to plotting ‘large scale’ attack
Australia terror suspects plead not guilty to plotting ‘large scale’ attack
Jeannie Shawl
December 18, 2006 06:42:00 pm

Thirteen men arrested last year in Australia's largest counter-terrorism raid pleaded not guilty to the charges against them during a pre-trial hearing Monday. Eighteen suspects were arrested in raids in Sydney and Melbourne and were charged with...

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News Former Fannie Mae executives face civil charges over alleged accounting fraud
Former Fannie Mae executives face civil charges over alleged accounting fraud
Jeannie Shawl
December 18, 2006 05:54:00 pm

The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) filed a notice of charges Monday against three former Fannie Mae executives over their role in fraudulently reporting future earnings so that...

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News Nebraska AG to appeal corporate farming ban ruling to Supreme Court
Nebraska AG to appeal corporate farming ban ruling to Supreme Court
Jeannie Shawl
December 18, 2006 05:44:00 pm

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning said Monday that he will appeal last week's federal appeals court ruling striking down the state's corporate farming ban to the US Supreme Court. Although Bruning...

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News Annan urges cooperation in ending rights abuses of migrant workers
Annan urges cooperation in ending rights abuses of migrant workers
Jeannie Shawl
December 18, 2006 03:35:00 pm

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has urged countries to sign and ratify the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families in order "to provide all migrants with the rights...

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News Israel high court overturns blanket Palestinian student entry ban
Israel high court overturns blanket Palestinian student entry ban
Jeannie Shawl
December 18, 2006 02:52:00 pm

The Israeli Supreme Court ordered the government Monday to establish more specific criteria to be used by military officials when deciding whether Palestinian students may enter Israel to study. The supreme court's decision came in a lawsuit...

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News States file Clean Air Act lawsuit against EPA over soot levels
States file Clean Air Act lawsuit against EPA over soot levels
Jeannie Shawl
December 18, 2006 02:25:00 pm

Officials from 13 states, the District of Columbia, and the South Coast Air Quality Management District filed a lawsuit Monday against the US Environmental Protection Agency "for failing to mandate lower levels of disease-causing soot...

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News Violent crime in US continues to rise: FBI report
Violent crime in US continues to rise: FBI report
Jeannie Shawl
December 18, 2006 12:51:00 pm

Violent crime in the US increased during the first half of 2006 when compared with the same period in 2005, according to the FBI's Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report released Monday. Violent crime, including...

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News Zuma ex-associate appeals corruption conviction to South Africa high court
Zuma ex-associate appeals corruption conviction to South Africa high court
Jeannie Shawl
December 18, 2006 12:35:00 pm

Lawyers for a business associate of former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma filed an appeal Monday with the South African Constitutional Court asking that the corruption conviction of Schabir Shaik be overturned....

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News Iraqis probe prison break by ex-electricity minister convicted of corruption
Iraqis probe prison break by ex-electricity minister convicted of corruption
Jeannie Shawl
December 18, 2006 11:24:00 am

Iraqi authorities are investigating the escape from prison of a former head of the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity . Ayham al-Samaraie , a member of the 2004-2005 interim Iraqi government , was serving a two-year sentence...

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First impeachment trial began in US Senate

On December 17, 1798, the US Senate began its first impeachment trial. Senator William Blount of Tennessee, a land speculator, was accused of plotting with England to wrest control of Florida from Spain.

The Senate ultimately dismissed the charges for lack of jurisdiction - and, perhaps incidentally, lack of Blount, who had gone to Tennessee and had refused to return to the Senate for trial. Read more on the attempted arrest of William Blount.

Simon Bolivar dies

On December 17, 1830, South American revolutionary Simon Bolivar died in Colombia. During his lifetime, Bolivar led successful revolutions against Spanish colonial rule throughout South America. His efforts led to the independence of the modern-day nations of Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Panama, Ecuador and Bolivia, a nation named in his honor.

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