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Saddam Hussein hanging documented on video
Katerina Ossenova
December 30, 2006 09:59:00 am

Video and pictures released by Iraqi state television Saturday confirmed the execution of Saddam Hussein which took place around 6 AM Saturday local time (10 PM Friday ET) at an...

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Bulgaria calls for speedy appeal in Libya AIDS trial
Katerina Ossenova
December 30, 2006 09:39:00 am

Bulgaria has urged a speedy appeal in the retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor accused of infecting over 400 Libyan patients, primarily children . The medics were convicted and sentenced ...

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FCC approves $86B telecom merger
Katerina Ossenova
December 30, 2006 08:24:00 am

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the proposed $86 billion AT&amptT-BellSouth merger Friday, after several months delay. The telecom merger was approved 4-0 by the FCC commissioners, who found that "significant public interest...

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Son of former Liberia president Taylor pleads not guilty to US torture charges
Katerina Ossenova
December 7, 2006 04:51:00 pm

Charles McArthur Emmanuel, also known as Roy Belfast Jr. and Charles Taylor Jr., son of former Liberia president Charles Taylor, pleaded not guilty in a US district court in Florida Thursday to charges of committing...

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Interim Fiji PM installed by military acknowledges coup ‘illegal’
Katerina Ossenova
December 7, 2006 02:20:00 pm

Interim Fiji Prime Minister Dr. Jona Senilagakali admitted Thursday that the military coup carried out in the country earlier this week is "illegal" but defended the takeover as necessary "to clean up the mess of a much...

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New Libya AIDS trial evidence could exonerate foreign medics
Katerina Ossenova
December 7, 2006 11:00:00 am

Scientists produced new evidence Wednesday supporting the claim of innocence of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor accused of infecting over 400 Libyan patients, primarily children, with the HIV virus. An analysis published...

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December 7, 2006 10:12:00 am

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert S. Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday that the FBI has launched internal investigations into media leaks of details relating to several public corruption probes. The...

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Bulgaria parliament votes to declassify Communist-era secret police files
Katerina Ossenova
December 7, 2006 10:10:00 am

The Bulgarian Parliament voted Wednesday to open the archives of the nation's former communist secret service in order to disclose information about 29 categories of people who currently hold or have held positions of responsibility...

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Senate Judiciary leaders introduce bill to restore habeas rights for detainees
Katerina Ossenova
December 7, 2006 09:27:00 am

US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , outgoing chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee , and current ranking member of the committee Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) have introduced a bill which would restore...

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November 30, 2006 10:43:00 am

Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina must arrest former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander Ratko Mladic , both wanted on war crimes charges, in order to be further...

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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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