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9 Nov 2020, 8:42 am
But public health experts around the country told STAT they were deeply worried that there has not been a correspondingly urgent response from federal, state, and local leaders. [read post]
28 Jul 2011, 9:19 am
Warren Jeffs Wants to Represent Himself The most recent news out of Texas is that FLDS Church leader Warren Jeffs told the judge in his case that he wants to fire his attorney and represent himself. [read post]
5 Oct 2011, 6:08 pm
Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, who was a leader in Birmingham's civil rights community through the 1950s and 1960s, has died at age 88. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 6:52 am
., the leader of a Muslim clan in the Philippines' semi-autonomous southern province of Maguindanao, and four of his family members. [read post]
20 Feb 2006, 7:58 am
[JURIST] Ayman Nour [BBC profile], the Egyptian opposition leader jailed [JURIST report] for forgery after his unsuccessful campaign last year, has filed an appeal and requested a suspension of his five-year sentence until the appeals court can rule on the matter, his lawyers said Monday. [read post]
11 Apr 2007, 9:14 am
[JURIST] Bangladesh [JURIST news archive] authorities announced Wednesday that opposition leader and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed [Wikipedia profile] has been charged with four counts of murder arising from the deaths of four protesters during political turmoil in October. [read post]
26 Sep 2005, 7:23 pm
[JURIST] Egyptian judges Monday ordered opposition leader and recent presidential candidate Ayman Nour [Wikipedia profile] to appear in court again Tuesday to answer charges connected to the submission of forged signatures [JURIST report] when his party applied for official recognition last year. [read post]
18 Jun 2004, 12:02 pm
French and British leaders traded jabs over the UK's desire to maintain a veto on social and foreign policy decisions. [read post]
25 Apr 2005, 7:43 pm
[JURIST] Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, the suspected leader of al Qaeda in Spain, has denied any connection to Sept. 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta [Wikipedia profile], as well as accusations that he helped arrange a planning meeting between Atta and another suspected Sept. 11 hijacker. [read post]
17 Jun 2005, 4:25 am
[JURIST] Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad [BBC profile], whose 22 years in office until 2003 made him one of Asia's longest-serving political leaders, Friday urged transparency and fairness in the trial of Saddam Hussein while announcing the launch of the so-called Emergency Committee for Iraq, co-chaired by himself, former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark [Wikipedia profile], [read post]
18 Jun 2018, 7:36 am
The Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore has chosen veteran real estate and government relations adviser Bill Jones to serve as interim president and CEO while it searches for a new permanent leader. [read post]
28 Mar 2007, 11:00 am
[JURIST] Zimbabwe police on Wednesday arrested opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai [BBC profile] and twenty staff members ahead of a press conference where Tsvangirai was expected to denounce police brutality that occurred during a crackdown on anti-government protesters [JURIST report] earlier in March. [read post]
7 Nov 2007, 1:48 am
[JURIST] The trial of Serb nationalist leader and war crimes defendant Vojislav Seselj [BBC profile; ICTY case backgrounder, PDF] began Wednesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [official website]. [read post]
27 Jul 2005, 9:44 am
[JURIST] Republican members of the Senate Judiciary committee [official website] and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) [official profile] have urged committee chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) [official profile] to begin confirmation hearings on US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts during Congress' August recess, rather than after September 5 when the body reconvenes. [read post]
23 Jan 2005, 9:04 am
[JURIST] Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko [campaign website in Ukrainian] was sworn in Sunday as the new president of Ukraine [official website in Ukrainian], succeeding the outgoing Leonid Kuchma. [read post]
15 Mar 2004, 7:24 am
Aslan Abashidze, the leader of the breakaway Georgian province of Adzharia, declared a state of emergency Monday, and rejected demands to accept the authority of Georgia's government. [read post]
9 Apr 2005, 7:33 am
[JURIST] During the weekly Democratic radio address [WTOP audio] Saturday, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid [official website] defended his party's position in the current battle between Democrats and Republicans over President Bush's judicial nominees [JURIST news archive] and procedures used to consider them, the second time in two weeks [JURIST report] that major Democrats have used [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 8:05 am
[JURIST] Zimabwean president Robert Mugabe [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] on Monday signed a power-sharing agreement [Harare Tribune text] between their African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) [party websites] parties. [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 4:53 am
[JURIST] Interim Kyrgyz leader Roza Otunbayeva [Telegraph profile] said Wednesday that ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev [BBC profile] should stand trial for the violent protests [JURIST report] that erupted in Kyrgyzstan last week. [read post]
16 Jun 2005, 9:24 am
[JURIST] Chechen rebel leader Khozh-Akhmed Nukhayev ordered the murder of American journalist Paul Klebnikov [Wikipedia profile] according to a report released Thursday by the Russian Prosecutor General's Office. [read post]
