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News Russia proposes tougher immigration laws after Putin call for crackdown
Russia proposes tougher immigration laws after Putin call for crackdown
Melissa Bancroft
October 8, 2006 03:09:00 pm

Russian immigration officials have proposed stricter migrant laws hard on the heels of a call by President Vladimir Putin to crack down on illegal immigrants at a Thursday cabinet meeting. The proposals include harsher...

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Australia AG reconsidering access to books banned under terror laws
Melissa Bancroft
October 2, 2006 07:21:00 pm

Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock is reconsidering the removal from Australian libraries of books which the government fears may incite terrorist activity. In a television interview Monday Ruddock expressed a willingness to allow structured and limited...

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News Judge refuses to throw out fraud convictions of Siegelman, Scrushy
Judge refuses to throw out fraud convictions of Siegelman, Scrushy
Melissa Bancroft
October 2, 2006 07:08:00 pm

A federal judge Monday denied motions by former Alabama governor Don Siegelman and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy to overturn their corruption convictions. US District Judge Mark Fuller ruled there...

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US House voted to impeach President Clinton

On December 19, 1998, a divided US House of Representatives voted to impeach President Bill Clinton on charges of lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice in the Monica Lewinsky affair.

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UK signs Hong Kong over to China

On December 19, 1984, the United Kingdom and China signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which ceded control of Hong Kong to the government of mainland China in 1997. The treaty also ensured that Hong Kong would retain its capitalist and democratic systems for at least 50 year after the transfer of power.

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