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News Iran calls for prosecution of ‘false reports’ against government
Iran calls for prosecution of ‘false reports’ against government
Jeannie Shawl
August 20, 2006 05:11:00 pm

A spokesman for the government of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has urged Iranian prosecutors to pursue charges against several Iranian newspapers who have published articles accusing Ahmadinejad of financial wrongdoing in recent weeks. In a...

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News Lebanon PM condemns Israel ‘crimes against humanity’ during Mideast conflict
Lebanon PM condemns Israel ‘crimes against humanity’ during Mideast conflict
Jeannie Shawl
August 20, 2006 01:27:00 pm

Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Sunday that Israel had committed crimes against humanity during its month-long bombing campaign in the current Middle East conflict . Touring areas outside of Beirut that had been hard...

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News Federal judge sets aside verdict in Iraq contract fraud case
Federal judge sets aside verdict in Iraq contract fraud case
Jeannie Shawl
August 20, 2006 09:06:00 am

US District Judge T. S. Ellis III has set aside the $10 million verdict against private military contractor Custer Battles , ruling that the former Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq could not be...

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News Gitmo detainee Hicks stripped of UK citizenship one day after request granted
Gitmo detainee Hicks stripped of UK citizenship one day after request granted
Jeannie Shawl
August 19, 2006 06:34:00 pm

Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks was stripped of British citizenship just one day after he was secretly made a citizen in July, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Saturday. Hicks' court battle for British citizenship ended...

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News Quattrone deal will allow former investment banker to avoid third trial
Quattrone deal will allow former investment banker to avoid third trial
Jeannie Shawl
August 19, 2006 05:33:00 pm

Federal prosecutors have reached a deferred-prosecution agreement with investment banker Frank Quattrone that would allow Quattrone to avoid a third trial on obstruction of justice and witness tampering charges , according to sources close to the...

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News Saddam could be tried posthumously if executed on Dujail charges: US official
Saddam could be tried posthumously if executed on Dujail charges: US official
Jeannie Shawl
August 19, 2006 05:05:00 pm

Saddam Hussein could continue to be tried posthumously if he is found guilty and sentenced to death for crimes against humanity charges stemming from a crackdown in the Iraqi town of Dujail, according to...

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News US to release Guantanamo Bay detainee to Germany: report
US to release Guantanamo Bay detainee to Germany: report
Jeannie Shawl
August 19, 2006 01:31:00 pm

US officials will release Murat Kurnaz , a Turkish national with ties to Germany, from Guantanamo Bay sometime next week, according to reports in the German media Saturday. Kurnaz was born in...

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News Marine commander believed Haditha killings not unusual, no need for probe
Marine commander believed Haditha killings not unusual, no need for probe
Jeannie Shawl
August 19, 2006 12:54:00 pm

Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Chessani, the US Marines commander in charge of the battalion implicated in the death of 24 civilians in Haditha last November, did not order an immediate investigation into the deaths because he...

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Tobacco ruling prompts renewed calls for legislation
Jeannie Shawl
August 19, 2006 12:29:00 pm

US Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) said Friday that Congress should write into law some of the remedies that US District Judge Gladys Kessler imposed on the tobacco industry after finding that tobacco companies conspired...

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Federal judge denies Libby access to additional classified materials
Jeannie Shawl
August 19, 2006 11:12:00 am

US District Judge Reggie B. Walton on Friday denied the latest request by I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to access classified information to prepare his defense on obstruction of justice and perjury charges in connection to...

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US House voted to impeach President Clinton

On December 19, 1998, a divided US House of Representatives voted to impeach President Bill Clinton on charges of lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice in the Monica Lewinsky affair.

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On December 19, 1984, the United Kingdom and China signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which ceded control of Hong Kong to the government of mainland China in 1997. The treaty also ensured that Hong Kong would retain its capitalist and democratic systems for at least 50 year after the transfer of power.

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