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News Canadian Supreme Court suspends Quebec private health care ruling for one year
Canadian Supreme Court suspends Quebec private health care ruling for one year
Tom Henry
August 5, 2005 08:39:00 am

The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday granted a one-year stay of its June ruling that the Quebec government can't block people from obtaining private insurance for health care procedures covered under the public system....

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News Blair unveils new anti-terrorism measures, bans two Islamist groups
Blair unveils new anti-terrorism measures, bans two Islamist groups
Tom Henry
August 5, 2005 08:00:00 am

British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Friday announced a new set of measures to combat terrorism , saying anyone who "has anything to do with , anywhere, will automatically be refused asylum in our country." Blair...

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News Group fears UK headlines may prejudice bombing trials
Group fears UK headlines may prejudice bombing trials
Tom Henry
August 4, 2005 03:40:00 pm

London-based human rights group Liberty has urged English Attorney General Lord Goldsmith to warn British newspapers and media reporting on the London bombings not to prejudice upcoming trials of the bombers by creating an assumption...

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News New Saudi ruler Abdullah pledges ‘justice’
New Saudi ruler Abdullah pledges ‘justice’
Tom Henry
August 4, 2005 03:04:00 pm

Saudi Arabia's new ruler King Abdullah has vowed to "work for justice and serve all citizens without discrimination," in his first address to the nation as its official leader. Saudi King Fahd died early Monday...

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News UN experts call on Israel to halt West Bank ‘wall’ construction
UN experts call on Israel to halt West Bank ‘wall’ construction
Tom Henry
August 4, 2005 02:33:00 pm

Eight members of the UN Commission on Human Rights Thursday called on Israel to stop building a barrier to close off the West Bank. The group, marking the first anniversary this summer of an International...

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News Rights group: FBI treating peaceful protesters as would-be terrorists
Rights group: FBI treating peaceful protesters as would-be terrorists
Tom Henry
August 4, 2005 01:21:00 pm

The Colorado chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday that recently-released FBI files support the contention that the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force is monitoring peaceful protesters as if they were terrorists ....

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News UK Muslim women criticize imam council advisory to cease wearing headscarves
UK Muslim women criticize imam council advisory to cease wearing headscarves
Tom Henry
August 4, 2005 10:58:00 am

The London-based Assembly for the Protection of the Hijab , a Muslim women's group, voiced opposition Thursday to a suggestion from the UK Council of Mosques and Imams that women should cease wearing headscarves because of their potential...

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News Last files of segregation-era commission unsealed
Last files of segregation-era commission unsealed
Tom Henry
August 4, 2005 09:47:00 am

The last four files of the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace were released to the public this week by Alabama state archivists . The segregation-era state agency secretly monitored the activities of a range of groups...

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News Extradition hearing set for bombing suspect arrested in Italy
Extradition hearing set for bombing suspect arrested in Italy
Tom Henry
August 4, 2005 08:55:00 am

Italian anti-terror magistrate Pietro Saviotti said Thursday that an extradition hearing has been scheduled for August 17 for Hamdi Issac, a suspect in the failed July 21 London bombing attacks , who was apprehended in Rome last week...

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Amnesty says Yemenis detained by US at secret location
Tom Henry
August 3, 2005 08:18:00 pm

Amnesty International said in a report Wednesday that two men currently held in a Yemeni prison seem to have been kept in clandestine US detention facilities in solitary confinement for almost two years. The...

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President Lincoln signed first US federal income tax act

On July 1, 1862, the Tax Act of 1862 was passed and signed by President Lincoln, establishing a 3% federal tax on income above $600 and a 5% tax on income above $10,000.

Compliance with the act was poor, even though there were needs for the Civil War. After the war the act was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Review a brief history of the US income tax from the Library of Congress.

UK returns Hong Kong to China

On July 1, 1997, the United Kingdom returned Hong Kong to China at the conclusion of a 99-year lease. The foundation for the transfer of power was set in December of 1984, when China and UK signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong. The Declaration affirmed the handover of Hong Kong along with governing principles. Most significantly, the Chinese agreed not to impose their socialist system on Hong Kong.

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