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11 Mar 2005, 5:12 am
[JURIST] Conservative leader Michael Howard has said he has accepted a compromise offer by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair that would likely push through contentious anti-terror legislation that had the Commons and Lords locked in back-and-forth debate [JURIST report] Thursday night through Friday morning. [read post]
16 Aug 2005, 5:56 am
[JURIST] Despite initial optimism, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen [official profile] has warned the international community that Cambodia [government website], one of Asia's poorest nations, cannot afford its share of the projected costs for an international criminal tribunal targeting Khmer Rouge leaders. [read post]
8 Feb 2006, 7:57 am
[JURIST] Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi [official profile; BBC profile] has backed off his pledge to push through legislation [JURIST report] that would allow women to succeed to the royal throne for the first time since the 1700's. [read post]
6 Jul 2006, 7:33 am
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Thursday "We will talk to the officials in the multinational forces to set rules... [read post]
17 Apr 2007, 1:22 am
[JURIST] Arafat Rahman, the son of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia [Virtual Bangladesh profile], was released Tuesday after being arrested [JURIST report] the day before on corruption allegations, according to local media reports. [read post]
6 Aug 2007, 7:46 am
The defendants, anti-coup academics and supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra [BBC profile], were arrested as part of an ongoing police investigation of protests that [read post]
3 Dec 2007, 9:29 am
[JURIST] The Israeli cabinet on Monday approved the release of 429 Palestinian prisoners as a gesture of good will toward Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas [BBC profile] in the wake of talks renewed peace talks between Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert [official website] at last week's Annapolis peace conference [joint understanding text]. [read post]
1 Mar 2008, 7:17 am
[JURIST] Pakistani police on Saturday filed preliminary charges against Baitullah Mehsud [BBC profile], the top Taliban leader in Pakistan, and four others in the assassination of former prime minister Benzhair Bhutto [BBC obituary; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
1 Nov 2009, 1:04 am
[JURIST] Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [official profile, in Italian; BBC profile] will stand trial for corruption charges on November 27, according to court officials Saturday. [read post]
25 Jun 2007, 2:19 am
“Lord Goldsmith dramatically announced his resignation as attorney general last night, days before he was expected to be ousted when Gordon Brown takes over as prime minister. [read post]
7 Aug 2020, 1:28 pm
"I'm a New York attorney who also happens to be French and very annoyed by what's going on," said Pierre Ciric, who is among the plaintiffs saying the prime minister's directive is a burden on French citizens who struggle to get test results in the United States. [read post]
9 Nov 2021, 9:32 am
Now with the ban lifted investment in the United States from overseas appears primed to ramp up again. [read post]
17 Mar 2003, 11:29 am
UPDATE [3:53 PM ET]: Cook's resignation letter and Prime Minister Blair's letter in response are now available from the BBC. [read post]
22 Oct 2005, 4:53 am
[JURIST] The son of slain former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri [official website], Saad al-Hariri, has praised the findings of a UN investigation into the February 4 assassination of the former leader and 20 other people in Beirut [JURIST news archive] and called for an international trial to punish those responsible for his murder. [read post]
26 Jan 2006, 5:22 am
[JURIST] Leading Thursday's international brief, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said that he's sending UN Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Nicolas Michel [official profile] to Lebanon to assist government officials there in identifying the "nature and scope of the international assistance" needed to create a tribunal charged with trying those accused of killing Prime Minister Hariri [read post]
30 Oct 2006, 8:13 pm
[JURIST] Lebanese President Emile Lahoud [official website] voiced objections to a draft document governing the special tribunal [JURIST report] to be tasked with trying suspects in the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri [JURIST news archive] in a 32-page report released Monday. [read post]
21 Mar 2007, 3:30 pm
[JURIST] Serge Brammertz [official profile], the deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court who is leading the UN's independent investigation [UN materials] into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri [JURIST news archive] told [video briefing] the UN Security Council Wednesday that he has made progress in finding the motive behind Hariri's assassination, [read post]
18 Oct 2007, 1:43 am
[JURIST] Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto [BBC profile] returned home to Pakistan Thursday after nine years of self-imposed exile in Great Britain and Dubai following corruption charges. [read post]
13 Dec 2007, 11:06 am
[JURIST] Interim Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont [BBC profile] said Thursday that he will not withdraw a proposed Internal Security Bill [Nation report] that would grant the military power to override government operations and suspend rights even after general elections of a civilian-run government scheduled for December 23. [read post]
3 Feb 2008, 7:01 am
The controversial Accountability and Justice Law [ICTJ backgrounder, PDF], passed by the Iraqi parliment earlier this month, has been publicly endorsed [JURIST reports] by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and [read post]
