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Spain court asks to transfer naval officer charged with genocide to Argentina
Katerina Ossenova
February 21, 2007 03:51:00 pm

A Spanish judge requested permission from Mexico Wednesday to extradite former Argentine naval officer Ricardo Miguel Cavallo back to Argentina. Cavallo was extradited from Mexico to Spain and has been in Spanish custody since 2003. In January...

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Romania commission reports no official cooperation with CIA rendition program
Katerina Ossenova
February 21, 2007 03:15:00 pm

A Romanian parliamentary commission announced Wednesday that it had found no evidence that Romania cooperated with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in operating illegal secret prisons and extraordinary rendition flights in Europe, or...

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News Zimbabwe police ban political rallies in capital for three months
Zimbabwe police ban political rallies in capital for three months
Katerina Ossenova
February 21, 2007 02:52:00 pm

Police imposed a three-month ban on political rallies and protests Wednesday in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare after a political rally held Sunday by opposition group Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) . Despite a court order ...

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News France parliament amends constitution to ban death penalty, allow impeachment
France parliament amends constitution to ban death penalty, allow impeachment
Katerina Ossenova
February 20, 2007 02:03:00 pm

The French parliament voted Monday to amend the French Constitution to include an explicit ban on the death penalty. In a special joint session of both the National Assembly and the Senate [official websites,...

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Australia asks court to uphold control orders for terror suspect
Katerina Ossenova
February 20, 2007 01:07:00 pm

Lawyers for the Australian government argued that control orders do not violate the country's constitution during a Tuesday court hearing in the case of an Australian man convicted in February 2006 of receiving money from an al...

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Former Canada chief justice warns PM not to influence judiciary
Katerina Ossenova
February 19, 2007 09:49:00 am

Former Canadian chief justice Antonio Lamer , who led the Supreme Court of Canada from 1990-2000, warned Prime Minister Stephen Harper Monday against influencing the judiciary to carry out his legislative agenda. In an...

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San Diego diocese weighs bankruptcy in face of clergy abuse lawsuits
Katerina Ossenova
February 19, 2007 09:26:00 am

The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego said in letter to parishioners Sunday that it will consider declaring bankruptcy in light of the more than 140 pending lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by priests. Signed by...

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Australia PM to press Cheney for speedy Hicks trial
Katerina Ossenova
February 19, 2007 08:54:00 am

Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Monday that the Australian government will put more pressure on the US to expedite the trial of Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks when US Vice President Dick Cheney...

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Romania president urges changes to voting laws to combat corruption
Katerina Ossenova
February 15, 2007 12:27:00 pm

Romanian President Traian Basescu has called for a national referendum to allow citizens to vote on amendments to the constitution aimed at reducing corruption. In a speech to parliament...

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February 15, 2007 11:43:00 am

The Serbian Parliament voted Thursday to reject a United Nations plan released by the United Nations that calls for Kosovo's autonomy and for the right of Kosovo to govern itself as a...

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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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