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News Mexico presidential candidate alleges fraud as basis for election challenge
Mexico presidential candidate alleges fraud as basis for election challenge
James M Yoch Jr
July 9, 2006 09:23:00 am

Mexican leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters in Mexico City Saturday ahead of a mass rally that voting fraud caused his official loss to ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon [campaign...

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News UK Attorney General confirms extradition of Enron bankers to US for fraud trial
UK Attorney General confirms extradition of Enron bankers to US for fraud trial
James M Yoch Jr
July 9, 2006 08:44:00 am

UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith confirmed Saturday that three British bankers charged in the US with wire fraud in connection with the Enron scandal will be extradited and tried in the United...

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News Senior US Iraq general finds Marine commanders at fault in Haditha probe
Senior US Iraq general finds Marine commanders at fault in Haditha probe
James M Yoch Jr
July 8, 2006 11:06:00 am

Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, chief of US ground forces in Iraq, has found several Marine commanders negligent in their handling of an investigation into the shooting deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians at Haditha in...

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News Georgia judge blocks voter ID law as unconstitutional
Georgia judge blocks voter ID law as unconstitutional
James M Yoch Jr
July 8, 2006 10:10:00 am

Judge Melvin K. Westmoreland of Fulton County Superior Court issued a temporary restraining order Friday blocking the implementation of Georgia's photo identification cards for voters, holding that the authorizing bill violates the state constitution...

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News Spain judge charges ex-generals in Guatemala genocide case
Spain judge charges ex-generals in Guatemala genocide case
James M Yoch Jr
July 8, 2006 09:44:00 am

Spanish National Court Judge Santiago Pedraz on Friday charged several former Guatemalan military officers with genocide, torture, and other crimes against humanity, and issued international arrest warrants for their involvement in atrocities committed during Guatemala's brutal 36-year civil war...

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News Bush says Supreme Court approved Guantanamo detentions by silence
Bush says Supreme Court approved Guantanamo detentions by silence
James M Yoch Jr
July 8, 2006 09:44:00 am

President Bush suggested Friday in a Chicago news conference that the US Supreme Court had approved the decision to establish a military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by its silence on the...

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News Bolivia votes on constitutional reform assembly
Bolivia votes on constitutional reform assembly
James M Yoch Jr
July 2, 2006 06:08:00 pm

Bolivians voted Sunday to elect 255 delegates to a special assembly that will rewrite the country’s constitution and decide whether to entrench greater power in the states or in the national government. The Movement Toward Socialism...

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News Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal judges arrive in Cambodia
Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal judges arrive in Cambodia
James M Yoch Jr
July 2, 2006 10:59:00 am

Foreign judges who will preside over the trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders arrived in Cambodia on Sunday in preparation for the genocide tribunal that is slated to begin proceedings [JURIST...

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News Georgia ‘shoot first’ law takes effect
Georgia ‘shoot first’ law takes effect
James M Yoch Jr
July 2, 2006 10:37:00 am

A new so-called “shoot first” (alternatively, "stand your ground") law took effect in Georgia on Saturday allowing state residents to use deadly force to respond to threats in public places with no duty to retreat. The law, which easily...

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News African Union panel says Chad ex-president should be tried in Africa
African Union panel says Chad ex-president should be tried in Africa
James M Yoch Jr
July 1, 2006 12:11:00 pm

An African Union panel recommended on Friday that former Chadian president Hissene Habre , accused of committing torture, mass killings, and other abuses in the 1980s, face trial in Africa instead of in...

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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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UK signs Hong Kong over to China

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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