Recent Updates
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U.S. Sending Senior Diplomat To Libya
Legal World 04/05/2007Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, the second highest ranking U.S. diplomat, will travel to Libya. According to the White House, Negroponte will focus on the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan as well as build stronger ties with the former ...
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Iran to free 15 captive British sailors and marines
Legal World 04/04/2007[##_1L|1368500640.jpg|width="130" height="95" alt=""|_##]Iran made a surprising move on Wednesday by releasing the 15 British sailors 13 days after it detained them for "illegal entry" into Iranian waters which had strained relations between Tehran a...
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China will not follow U.S. energy consumption model
Legal World 04/04/2007China will not follow the U.S. energy consumption model because energy resources are limited, said Xu Dingming, vice director of the Office of the National Energy Leading Group. Xu made the remark at an MIT Energy Forum in Shanghai on Tuesday. He sai...
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Ukrainian PM: Solve political crisis through negotiation
Legal World 04/04/2007[##_1L|1375215297.jpg|width="100" height="92" alt=""|_##]Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich urged President Viktor Yushchenko to find solutions to the current political deadlock through negotiation during a meeting on Wednesday, saying the go...
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Ukrainian PM threatens early presidential elections
Legal World 04/03/2007[##_1L|1030602944.jpg|width="96" height="105" alt=""|_##]The Ukrainian Prime Minister has defied a presidential decree to dissolve parliament, which went into effect on Tuesday, and threatened to force an early presidential election. Prime Minister V...
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UN panel meets to discuss global warming
Legal World 04/03/2007[##_1L|1322637903.jpg|width="100" height="125" alt=""|_##]The United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began a four-day meeting in Brussels Monday to discuss a report which warns that global warming is already happening and th...
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Solomon Islands earthquake and tsunami
Legal World 04/03/2007Less than a day after a devastating tsunami hit the Solomon Islands, a smaller earthquake struck early Tuesday near the South Pacific chain of islands. The U.S. Geological Survey reported an earthquake of 6.2 on the Richter scale struck about 305 kil...
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Moscow court denies Russia gay pride parade appeal
Legal World 04/03/2007The Moscow City Court upheld a city ban on gay pride parades in the city on Monday, dismissing an extraordinary appeal by parade organizers challenging a ruling by the Tverskoy district court. Organizers say they are prepared to appeal to the Russian...
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Canada watchdog says SWIFT upheld privacy law
Legal World 04/03/2007[##_1L|1133489091.jpg|width="90" height="107" alt=""|_##]Canadian Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart concluded an investigation Monday into the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), finding that the European financi...
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Hicks applies for transfer to Australia prison
Legal World 04/02/2007[##_1L|1100019938.jpg|width="110" height="120" alt=""|_##]Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has submitted an application to be transferred to a prison near his home in South Australia to serve the remainder of his nine-month sentence aft...
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Iraqi Arabs angered over Kirkuk relocation proposal
Legal World 04/02/2007Arab residents of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk expressed anger Sunday at the government's plan to encourage relocation of the city's Arab population. Most of the city's current residents were forced to move to the now ethnically diverse, oil-ric...
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Russia bans foreign workers from retail jobs
Legal World 04/01/2007[##_1L|1309810044.jpg|width="118" height="78" alt=""|_##]A Russian law banning all foreigners from the country's retail industry took effect Sunday. The new law, passed by the Russian assembly last year, is expected to affect tens of thousands of wor...