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Gonzales offers more prosecutors, police to fight New Orleans crime post-Katrina
Kate Heneroty
August 23, 2006 09:15:00 am

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has said that he will divert additional resources to New Orleans to address the city's high crime rates following the Hurricane Katrina disaster . The...

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Saddam court hears testimony on 1987 Balisan gas attack
Kate Heneroty
August 23, 2006 08:41:00 am

Testimony from Kurdish survivors of the 1987-1988 Anfal campaign in Iraq continued Wednesday during the trial of Saddam Hussein , where Hussein and six co-defendants face genocide and crimes against humanity charges . Following...

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Federal judge rules national forest logging plan violates environmental laws
Kate Heneroty
August 23, 2006 08:02:00 am

A plan by the US Forest Service to allow commercial logging inside Central California's Giant Sequoia National Monument violates environmental laws , US District Judge Charles R. Breyer held Tuesday. Breyer had previously issued...

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Kate Heneroty
August 13, 2006 04:17:00 pm

Delegates from around the world will meet Monday in New York in a bid to resolve differences left after a drafting session earlier this year to frame a 33-article draft convention designed to protect the rights...

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New military tribunal process could leave Hicks in Gitmo for 7 more years: lawyer
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August 13, 2006 03:40:00 pm

Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks may serve up to seven more years in US military custody before facing trial under a new military tribunal system, his military lawyer Major Michael Mori said...

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August 13, 2006 03:04:00 pm

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the US to deny a request from Israel to provide cluster munitions for use against targets in Lebanon. HRW wrote a letter to National Security Advisor...

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Iraqi health minister alleges wrongful arrests, theft by US troops
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August 13, 2006 02:21:00 pm

Ali al-Shemri, head of Iraq's Ministry of Health , alleged Sunday that US troops wrongfully detained five members of his personal security force and stole their salaries during an early morning raid of the Health Ministry Building. An...

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August 6, 2006 02:02:00 pm

Radhika Coomaraswamy , the Sri Lankan human rights lawyer now serving as UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict , said in an interview with AFP published Sunday that UN officials are very...

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August 6, 2006 12:26:00 pm

Israel has arrested a Hezbollah guerrilla who is believed to have taken part in the July 12 raid which captured two Israeli soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev , the...

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August 6, 2006 11:42:00 am

Hong Kong's Legislative Council passed a controversial surveillance law 32-0 Sunday, despite more than five days of deliberations and a vote boycott by 25 members of the pro-democracy opposition. The Interception of Communications and Surveillance...

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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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