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19 Sep 2007, 11:36 am
[JURIST] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan [IHT backgrounder] Tuesday urged the government of Turkey to remove the current ban on the wearing of headscarves at state universities [JURIST report], saying that the ban effectively denies some Muslim women access to higher education. [read post]
26 Oct 2007, 11:08 am
[JURIST] UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown [official website] Thursday announced the launch of a nationwide public consultation [press release] leading to a new as-yet-undrafted "Bill of Rights and Duties" in what he described as part of a process of "moving towards a written constitution" for the United Kingdom. [read post]
27 Dec 2008, 9:22 am
[JURIST] A spokesman for Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd [official website; BBC profile] said Saturday that Australia would be willing to consider acceptance of Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees on a case-by-case basis, according to a report in The Australian. [read post]
3 Aug 2009, 2:10 am
[JURIST] An Iraqi court on Sunday convicted Ali Hassan al-Majid [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] and former foreign minister and deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] of forcing the Kurdish population to be displaced from the northeast of Iraq during the late 1980s. [read post]
10 Mar 2011, 8:31 am
Under the plan, the prime minister would be chosen based on the political party elected to a majority of seats in parliament, more power would be granted to the parliament and local officials would also be granted more power through a "regionalization program. [read post]
29 Oct 2007, 7:26 am
Stanley O’Neal, on the brink of being pushed out by his board, one director in particular is emerging as a prime mover in this Wall Street saga. [read post]
17 Dec 2008, 12:16 pm
The British prime minister's apparent initial success led some newspapers to christen him Flash Gordon, in honor of his alacrity and vision in facing the banking crisis. [read post]
21 Jul 2015, 2:24 pm
The prime contractor on the bungled launch of Maryland’s health insurance exchange in 2013 has agreed to pay $45 million to avoid legal claims, state officials announced Tuesday. [read post]
14 Mar 2009, 8:28 pm
(Via TigerHawk, where one commenter observes: “Interesting how taxes go up when the Boomers needed them…as they went down when the Boomers were in prime earning years…”). [read post]
10 Jul 2008, 5:18 pm
Good news for us consumers of entertainment: members of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists just ratified a new three-year prime-time television agreement with major Hollywood studios and networks. [read post]
22 Nov 2023, 6:00 pm
Wilders, who is on the verge of becoming prime minister, has softened his strong stances, vowing that his actions "would be within the law and constitution. [read post]
31 Aug 2009, 1:29 am
Well, because of this article by Yukio Hatoyama, leader of DPJ and future prime-minister. [read post]
11 May 2015, 12:34 pm
Eric Boehlert at Media Matters offers his thoughts on why the D.C. media is "primed to take down Hillary Clinton. [read post]
24 Aug 2007, 4:51 am
In the coming days, France will ratify the London Agreement, which does away with the need to translate patents into all languages, Francois Fillon, the new French prime minister, said in an interview with Le Monde newspaper Tuesday. [...] [read post]
7 Apr 2004, 1:48 am
In what observers consider a remarkable ruling, a Japanese district court has ruled that Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's controversial visits to a Shinto shrine honoring Japan's World War II war dead are unconstitutional as a violation of the constitutionally-mandated separation of the state and religion. [read post]
28 Dec 2004, 9:35 am
[JURIST] Ukraine's prosecutor-general Tuesday opened a criminal probe into the death of Transport Minister Heorhiy Kyrpa, a strong supporter of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. [read post]
26 Aug 2005, 8:14 am
[JURIST] Syria is ready to assist the UN investigation into the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri [Wikipedia profile], a Syrian foreign ministry official told AFP Friday. [read post]
16 Dec 2005, 12:45 am
[JURIST] An Australian court hearing a bail application by Australian Muslims detained in a major November anti-terror sweep [JURIST report] was told by prosecutors Friday that two of the suspects had discussed assassinating Australian Prime Minister John Howard, killing police and attacking families at soccer matches. [read post]
9 May 2007, 6:05 am
[JURIST] A UK court found two men guilty of violating Section 3 of Britain's Official Secrets Act [text] by leaking a secret memo in which President Bush was said to have told UK Prime Minister Tony Blair [official profile] in April 2004 of a plan to bomb Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera [media website] at the height of the US campaign against Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah. [read post]
20 Jul 2007, 11:54 am
[JURIST] Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi [BBC profile] announced pardons Friday for 38 opposition members and journalists sentenced to prison for their roles in mass anti-government demonstrations [JURIST report]. [read post]
