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News Mexican lawmakers approve postal absentee voting
Mexican lawmakers approve postal absentee voting
Kate Heneroty
June 29, 2005 07:32:00 am

Mexican lawmakers Tuesday approved a law permitting Mexicans living abroad to vote by mail in next July's presidential election. The lower house of Congress passed the measure 455 to 6, with 6 abstentions. The measure has already been passed...

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UPDATE ~ Iran extends polling hours for presidential runoff vote for 5th time
Kate Heneroty
June 24, 2005 04:16:00 pm

Iran state television announced Friday that the Iranian Interior Ministry would extend the polling hours of the country's second presidential runoff election for the fifth time. The voting started at 9 AM local time and was scheduled to end...

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News Tight Iranian presidential vote marred by abuses
Tight Iranian presidential vote marred by abuses
Kate Heneroty
June 24, 2005 03:09:00 pm

Iranian Interior Ministry officials said Friday that intimidation and other abuses were impairing the presidential run-off election between relative moderate and former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and hard-liner and mayor of Tehran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . The...

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Judge adds $130M to verdict against Morgan Stanley
Kate Heneroty
June 24, 2005 02:40:00 pm

A judge has added $130 million to the $1.45 billion verdict against Morgan Stanley a jury awarded last month to billionaire financier and Revlon Inc. chairman Ron Perelman. The judge took off about $84.5 million...

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Amnesty presses US on Guantanamo access, commission
Kate Heneroty
June 24, 2005 02:27:00 pm

Amnesty International Friday called for the US to open detention centers around the world to UN experts, expressing "deep regret" at the reluctance to to allow human rights experts to visit with detainees. The organization again called...

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Medical marijuana indictment unsealed
Kate Heneroty
June 24, 2005 01:57:00 pm

Federal law enforcment authorities in San Francisco have unsealed an indictment charging 19 people with drug trafficking and using three San Francisco medical marijuana dispensaries as fronts for organized crime. In marijuana raids conducted earlier this week ...

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News Swiss court says arrested ex-Russian minister must stay in prison
Swiss court says arrested ex-Russian minister must stay in prison
Kate Heneroty
June 24, 2005 01:34:00 pm

A federal court in Lausanne, Switzerland ruled Friday that former Russian nuclear minister Yevgeny Adamov must remain in a Swiss prison pending hearings on an extradition request from Russia, overruling a decision two weeks ago...

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News Appeals court sides with EPA on relaxed anti-pollution plant upgrades
Appeals court sides with EPA on relaxed anti-pollution plant upgrades
Kate Heneroty
June 24, 2005 01:12:00 pm

A three judge panel of the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Friday rejected claims by thirteen states that the Bush administration's decision to let older power plants emit more pollution violates the Clean Air Act . The policy...

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Evidence of Iraq reconstruction fraud handed over to federal prosecutors
Kate Heneroty
June 22, 2005 10:03:00 am

The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction told a House subcommittee hearing focused on the US handling of the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) on Tuesday that evidence relating to finances used for reconstruction has...

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Iraqi judge nominated for constitutional committee killed by gunmen
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June 22, 2005 09:37:00 am

Jassim al-Issawi, a Sunni Muslim Iraqi judge whose name was at one point on the list to serve on a parliamentary committee to draft Iraq's new constitution was killed by gunmen in Baghdad on Wednesday. Al-Issawi,...

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Maurice Papon convicted of war crimes

On April 2, 1998, Maurice Papon was convicted of war crimes for his role in deporting French Jews to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation of France. Under German occupation, Papon served as the supervisor of the Service for Jewish Questions in Bordeaux from which he collaborated with the Nazi S.S. and oversaw the deportation of 1,560 Jewish men, women, and children to concentration camps.

Read an biography of Maurice Papon from the BBC.

Massachusetts enacted Vietnam antiwar bill

On April 2, 1970, the Governor of Massachusetts signed into law an anti-Vietnam War bill providing that no inhabitant of Massachusetts inducted into or serving in the armed forces "shall be required to serve" abroad in an armed hostility that had not been declared a war by Congress under Article I, Section 8, clause 11 of the United States Constitution.

Supporters of the legislation hoped that the US Supreme Court would seize on the obvious conflict that the bill created between state and federal law and would rule on the constitutionality of the Vietnam War itself, but the Court refused to exercise original jurisdiction, forcing the case into the lower federal courts. See Anthony D'Amato, Massachusetts In The Federal Courts: The Constitutionality Of The Vietnam War [PDF], 4 Journal of Law Reform (1970).

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