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News New Yorkers favor random bag searches on subways, poll says
New Yorkers favor random bag searches on subways, poll says
Kate Heneroty
August 19, 2005 03:54:00 pm

A survey conducted by Quinnipiac University's Polling Institute found that 72% of 1,601 New York residents polled supported the random bag searches being conducted on city subways and buses following the terrorist attacks in London...

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News Iranian exiles describe plutonium project; Khamenei denies nuclear ambitions
Iranian exiles describe plutonium project; Khamenei denies nuclear ambitions
Kate Heneroty
August 19, 2005 03:06:00 pm

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) , the political wing of the outlawed Mujahideen-e-Khalq guerrilla movement , said Friday that Iran is developing a plan to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons. While the European Union...

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News Guatemalan prison riots continue; rights groups call for reform
Guatemalan prison riots continue; rights groups call for reform
Kate Heneroty
August 19, 2005 02:34:00 pm

Three days after gang related riots in seven Guatemalan prisons killed 35 inmates, three more inmate gang members were injured in riots Thursday. A later search of the prison uncovered 3 grenades, 6 guns and many homemade...

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News Cigarette makers sue Kentucky for violation of tobacco settlement agreement
Cigarette makers sue Kentucky for violation of tobacco settlement agreement
Kate Heneroty
August 19, 2005 02:11:00 pm

Four tobacco companies have filed suit against the state of Kentucky for violating the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) made between 46 states and more than 40 tobacco companies, regulating payments to states and restrictions on tobacco...

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News Danish supplier admits role in UN oil-for-food fraud
Danish supplier admits role in UN oil-for-food fraud
Kate Heneroty
August 19, 2005 01:38:00 pm

Grundfos , a Danish company that produces industrial pumps, admitted Friday that two employees paid kickbacks to authorities in Saddam Hussein's government under the UN oil-for-food program . An internal Grundfos investigation uncovered the bribes, which...

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News Lawyer says former Iraq deputy PM Aziz will be released without trial
Lawyer says former Iraq deputy PM Aziz will be released without trial
Kate Heneroty
August 19, 2005 01:03:00 pm

The lawyer for former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz announced Thursday that he expects his client to be released from US custody shortly without being put on trial. Badia Aref told Reuters that due to legal...

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News Italy will extradite London bombing suspect within 35 days
Italy will extradite London bombing suspect within 35 days
Kate Heneroty
August 17, 2005 11:09:00 am

An Italian court Wednesday ordered that Ethiopian-born Hamdi Issac, a suspect in the failed July 21 London transport attacks , be extradited to Britain within 35 days. The three judge panel allowed the 35-day delay so...

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News Luxembourg lawyer files suit to annul national EU constitution referendum
Luxembourg lawyer files suit to annul national EU constitution referendum
Kate Heneroty
August 17, 2005 10:44:00 am

A lawyer in Luxembourg filed suit Tuesday challenging the country's July 10th referendum approving the European Constitution . Lawyer Roy Reding claims the government violated Luxembourg's constitution ...

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News Federal appeals court upholds Tyson price-fixing dismissal
Federal appeals court upholds Tyson price-fixing dismissal
Kate Heneroty
August 17, 2005 10:12:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Tuesday upheld a ruling by a federal district court in Alabama, throwing out a jury verdict that said that a Tyson Foods subsidiary, Tyson Fresh Meats,...

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News Bali bombers get Independence Day sentence reductions
Bali bombers get Independence Day sentence reductions
Kate Heneroty
August 17, 2005 09:57:00 am

Eighteen people convicted in the 2002 bombings in Bali that killed 202 people, have had their sentences cut by several months to celebrate Indonesia's Independence Day, prison wardens announced Wednesday. It is an Indonesian custom to...

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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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