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News Delay in Iraq constitution vote unlikely to resolve differences
Delay in Iraq constitution vote unlikely to resolve differences
Kate Heneroty
August 23, 2005 08:06:00 am

Humam Hammoudi, head of Iraq's constitutional drafting committee , told reporters Tuesday that it was unlikely that the three additional days provided by the National Assembly to settle differences over the charter would be sufficient...

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News Atlanta Olympics bomber sentenced to life in prison
Atlanta Olympics bomber sentenced to life in prison
Kate Heneroty
August 22, 2005 02:40:00 pm

Eric Rudolph , who pleaded guilty in April to the 1996 Olympic Park bombing and later bombings at an abortion clinic and gay nightclub in Atlanta, Monday was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences plus 120...

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News Egypt rejects international supervision of elections
Egypt rejects international supervision of elections
Kate Heneroty
August 22, 2005 01:27:00 pm

Egypt's Supreme Committee of Presidential Elections has rejected any international assistance in monitoring the upcoming presidential elections, the first multi-candidate election in Egypt's history. Committee spokesperson Osama Attawiya told the Kuwait News Agency Monday that under Egypt's...

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News "Federal" language reportedly used in Iraqi constitution draft
"Federal" language reportedly used in Iraqi constitution draft
Kate Heneroty
August 22, 2005 11:24:00 am

Reuters is reporting Monday that a draft of Iraq's constitution calls the country a "republican, parliamentarian, democratic and federal" state, but fails to detail the extent of the federalism. The vague language may indicate a compromise...

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News End of jailed Iranian journalist hunger strike confirmed
End of jailed Iranian journalist hunger strike confirmed
Kate Heneroty
August 22, 2005 10:28:00 am

Iranian political prisoner, dissident journalist Akbar Ganji , has ended the hunger strike he began on June 11 to protest the conditions of his confinement, his wife confirmed Monday. The confirmation follows an earlier announcement from...

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News UN report says Yemen judiciary "infested with corruption"
UN report says Yemen judiciary "infested with corruption"
Kate Heneroty
August 22, 2005 10:06:00 am

The Arab Regional Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has issued a report saying the Yemen judiciary system and employment in the country's monitoring and control bodies is "infested with corruption." The...

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News Kyrgyzstan refusal to surrender Uzbek refugees continues
Kyrgyzstan refusal to surrender Uzbek refugees continues
Kate Heneroty
August 22, 2005 08:46:00 am

A Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry official announced Monday that Kyrgyzstan will not return refugees who fled Uzbekistan after an uprising in the eastern Uzbek city of Andijan in May. Zafar Hakimov, director of the Foreign Ministry's migration service...

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News Deadline looms for Iraqi constitution, several issues remain unsettled
Deadline looms for Iraqi constitution, several issues remain unsettled
Kate Heneroty
August 22, 2005 08:33:00 am

With just a few hours remaining before Monday's midnight deadline , drafters of the Iraqi constitution have settled some crucial issues, but are still struggling with the role that Islam should play in the nation's...

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News Jury finds Merck liable for $253 million in Vioxx wrongful death suit
Jury finds Merck liable for $253 million in Vioxx wrongful death suit
Kate Heneroty
August 19, 2005 04:25:00 pm

A Texas jury on Friday awarded a $253.4 million verdict in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the widow of a man who suffered cardiac arrest after using the prescription osteoarthritis drug Vioxx . Merck ,...

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News DC sniper Muhammad moved to Maryland to face second trial
DC sniper Muhammad moved to Maryland to face second trial
Kate Heneroty
August 19, 2005 04:11:00 pm

John Allen Muhammad , who has been convicted of murder in Virginia for one of the ten Washington DC area sniper killings, was moved Friday from Virginia's death row to Maryland in order to face trial...

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Accused Nazi war criminal, John Demjanjuk, put on trial in Israel

On February 16, 1987, accused Nazi war criminal, John Demjanjuk, went on trial in Jerusalem, Israel. The prosecution claimed that Demjanjuk was a notorious prison guard known as "Ivan the Terrible" at the Treblinka extermination camp during World War II. On this basis, Demjanjuk was convicted by the Israeli court of crimes against humanity. However, in August 1993, the conviction overturned by Israel's Supreme Court on a finding of reasonable doubt.

After the decision by the Supreme Court of Israel, Demjanjuk was returned to the United States, where he had been moved after World War II. On December 22, 2006, the U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals ordered him deported to the Ukraine on a finding that he had been a guard at other Nazi concentration camps.

American feminist arrested for advocating birth control

On February 16, 1916, feminist and anarchist Emma Goldman was arrested in New York City for advocating birth control.

Learn more about Emma Goldman and her defense of reproductive rights from the University of California, Berkeley.

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