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” translates to “students” in Arabic, and is a militia group that was a key player in the region in 1994 The Soviet withdrawal in 1989 caused a major divide amongst Al Mujahideen leaders who became power thirsty

Mass Incarceration From the 1970s, the number of imprisoned people increased considerably in the United As for the length of the sentence, between 1990 and 2009, the average time served in prison rose by nearly However, since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988, federal executions have remained rare Between 1988 and 2021, 79 federal defendants have been sentenced to death, of whom 16 have been executed

Chiang Kai-shek was defeated in 1949, forcing him and his supporters to flee to Taiwan.

She has been a member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) since 1999, first as an additional member for He is also an ex BBC news broadcaster, who came out publicly as gay in 1999 in various newspapers, and

The United Nations Genocide Convention of December 1948 provided a legal definition of what constitutes

Current laws on the minimum wage In 1938, President Franklin D.

His first vote was in 1998, when he voted for the reduction of the age of consent from eighteen to sixteen

Iranian-Israeli relations Iran and Israel were on good terms for three decades until the Islamic Revolution of 1979 In 1948, Iraq had been on a targeting spree of its Jewish community after Israel had declared its independence Although Iran had initially refused to recognise Israel as a legitimate state, it later recognised it in 1950 The relationship slowly began deteriorating in the 1970’s, when Iran had closer relations with Anwar Finally, in 1979, the Islamic rule completely got rid of the Israeli relationship.

The request clarified this area as being: ‘the Palestinian Territory occupied in 1967 by Israel, as defined by the 1949 Armistice Line, and includes the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip In the 1967 war, Israel captured the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza territories from Palestine.

On May 31st 1910, the Union of South Africa was founded and declared a dominion of the British Empire On May 31st 1961, South Africa declared itself a Republic, and withdrew from the Commonwealth. Adopted in 1948, all South Africans were classified as either Bantu (all black Africans), coloured (those The Group Areas Act of 1950 established residential and business sections in urban areas for each race Increasing international pressure led to the release of Nelson Mandela on February 11th 1990.

The GOP’s further shift to the right started in the 1990s, resulting in them controlling the House for

From 1962 to 1991, Iraq actively built and deployed WMD’s, before destroying all chemical weapons and Despite this lack of physical evidence, on 19th March 2003 President Bush announced the beginning of