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China ready to substitute lethal injections for gunshot executions: report

June 16, 2009 02:47:00 PM

Chinese state media reported Tuesday that Beijing is ready to switch from gunshot executions of condemned prisoners to lethal injections . A spokesperson for the Supreme People's Court (SPC) said...

July 9, 2008 08:19:00 AM

The Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) expressed "great concern" Tuesday over Italy's decision to dissolve the office of High Commissioner against corruption , effective August 25, 2008. In a letter to High Commissioner Vincenzo...

June 17, 2008 01:13:00 PM

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi wrote Monday that proposed amendments designed to suspend older trials for nonviolent crimes would allow the judiciary to consider more important cases [Senate letter, in...

February 22, 2008 11:24:00 AM

The appeals chamber of the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone on Friday upheld the sentences of three former leaders of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council who were convicted...

July 11, 2007 07:18:00 PM

US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Stephen L. Johnson defended last month's EPA proposal to toughen standards for US air quality during testimony at a Wednesday Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works subcommittee hearing...

September 14, 2006 07:55:00 PM

The Rwandan government Thursday threatened to stop working with the UN-sponsored International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) because it believes the ICTR employs genocide suspects. Rwanda pointed to the ICTR's pressure on...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Acts of Union creates Great Britain

On May 1, 1707, the two Acts of Union went into effect, implementing the Treaty of Union and thereby uniting the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain. The Union with Scotland Act was passed by the Parliament of England in 1706, and the Scottish Parliament promulgated the Union with England Act. Learn more about the Acts of Union from the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

First US trade union formed

On May 1, 1794, the Federal Society of Journeymen Cordwainers (shoemakers) was organized in Philadelphia to negotiate wages for its members, becoming the first trade union in the United States.

Learn more about the history of the labor movement in the United States, and visit the website of the AFL-CIO, the federation of America's labor unions, representing more than 13 million workers.