Burundi: Govt Jails, Fines Coup Plotters

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Burundi: Govt Jails, Fines Coup Plotters

[East African] Burundi marked unity day last week, a few days after sentencing of the coup plotters of 2015 to life imprisonment.

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First fugitive slave law enacted by Congress

In 1793, Congress passed the first Fugitive Slave Law to implement the provisions in the Constitution. It stated that to reclaim an escaped slave a master needed only to go before a magistrate and provide oral or written proof of ownership. The magistrate would then issue an order for the arrest of

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Joseph P. Bradley

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Obama emerges as central figure in 2020 presidential race

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FID targets assets after five convicted in $400m Manchester municipal fraud trial

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Howell, Martha Ann Jane Stevens Perkins (1875–1954)

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14

1936

April 2007 national elections—the country’s first transition from one democratically elected president to another—were marred by widespread allegations of fraud, ballot stuffing, violence, and chaos. Just days before the election, the Supreme Court ruled that the election commission’s decision to

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Townsend, Willard S. (1895-1957)

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1957

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1959

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1970

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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1941

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(1955) Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., "Speech on Civil Rights"

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