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3 Jun 2004, 8:34 am
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko was convicted today by a federal jury on charges of money laundering, wire fraud and extortion. [read post]
15 Dec 2004, 1:08 pm
[JURIST] British Home Secretary David Blunkett (official Home Office biography here), one of the most powerful ministers in the cabinet of Prime Minister Tony Blair and the minister responsible for pushing sweeping anti-terror legislation through the UK Parliament in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US, has resigned in the wake of allegations that he improperly used the [read post]
23 Mar 2005, 2:40 pm
[JURIST] The Italian Senate [official website] Wednesday approved a broad constitutional reform bill [Senate bill information] that will increase the prime minister's executive authority, minimize the risk that governments will collapse mid-term, redistribute power between the houses of parliament, and increase the self-rule of Italy's 20 regions. [read post]
14 Apr 2006, 12:00 am
[JURIST] The victory of former Prime Minister Romano Prodi [campaign website, in Italian] over incumbent Silvio Berlusconi [official profile, JURIST news archive] in the disputed April 9-10 parliamentary elections [JURIST report] seemed confirmed Friday after reports that the number of disputed ballots in the election for the lower house of the Italian parliament - originally estimated at 43,000 [read post]
25 Apr 2007, 6:12 pm
[JURIST] Israel's state comptroller Wednesday recommended holding a criminal investigation into allegations that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert [official website; BBC profile] improperly favored his supporters in distributing business grants when he was trade minister in 2001. [read post]
8 Oct 2007, 12:54 am
Martial law was imposed nationwide after the Thai military seized power from civilian prime [read post]
15 Feb 2009, 3:27 am
[JURIST] Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga [official website] on Saturday maintained [press release] that the government was determined to form a local tribunal to address the December 2007 post-election violence [JURIST report], despite a defeat [JURIST report] in the Kenyan Parliament [official website] last week. [read post]
10 May 2009, 4:41 am
Khan, who served from 2001 to 2006 under former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia [profile] was convicted [Reuters report] last September of illegally amassing nearly $250,000 by the country's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) [governing statute]. [read post]
15 Jun 2010, 11:33 am
The inquiry was launched in 1998 by former prime minister Tony Blair [Guardian backgrounder] in response to pressure from the victims' families. [read post]
12 Jan 2011, 10:18 am
[JURIST] The Italian Constitutional Court held hearings on Tuesday to determine the constitutionality of a law that grants temporary immunity [materials, in Italian] to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] for charges he currently faces in Milan. [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 6:20 am
According to the DOJ complaint [text, PDF], Countrywide engaged in a pattern of discriminatory conduct, charging minority borrowers higher fees and interest rates and steering them into sub-prime mortgages based not on their creditworthiness, but rather on... [read post]
19 Apr 2017, 11:05 am
Prime Minister Theresa May has stated that the general election will "secure the strong... [read post]
6 Feb 2015, 5:22 am
[JURIST] Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said Thursday that Croatia will block Serbia from joining the EU unless it changes a 2003 law [text, PDF] allowing Belgrade to prosecute Croatians for war crimes committed against Serbs in Croatia. [read post]
3 Jan 2005, 2:24 am
[JURIST] Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Monday that an autonomy plan passed by Basque lawmakers last week is doomed for failure and called the proposal secessionist, unconstitutional and an anomaly in a Europe moving to become more united. [read post]
5 Dec 2005, 7:32 am
[JURIST] UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's proposed anti-terrorism law [text; BBC backgrounder] is under more pressure for amendment [JURIST report] after the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights Monday reported [text] that currently-proposed provisions - such as the proposal that someone could be found guilty of inciting terrorist behavior regardless of intent - would be contrary to the [read post]
13 Feb 2006, 10:39 pm
[JURIST Europe] The controversial Identity Cards Bill [official PDF text] narrowly passed its critical second reading in the British House of Commons Monday evening despite efforts by opposition parties and rebellious backbenchers from British Prime Minister Tony Blair's [official profile] own Labour Party to stop it. [read post]
7 Jul 2006, 2:44 am
[JURIST] Tariq Aziz [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], the Iraqi deputy prime minister under Saddam Hussein's regime, has gone on hunger strike to protest the refusal of prison authorities to grant him access to his lawyer, a member of his legal team said Thursday. [read post]
19 Jul 2006, 4:20 am
[JURIST] A British judge has ruled that the parts of the upcoming UK state secrets trial relating to an alleged memo detailing a conversation between US President George Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair [official profile] describing plans to bomb satellite news channel Aljazeera [media website] cannot be disclosed to the public. [read post]
21 Nov 2006, 4:03 pm
[JURIST] Nepalese Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and Maoist rebel leader Prachanda signed [recorded video via eKantipur] a peace agreement [text in Nepali] Tuesday formally ending the decade-long Maoist guerilla insurgency against the government that left over 13,000 people dead. [read post]
16 Apr 2007, 2:48 am
[JURIST] Arafat Rahman, the son of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia [Virtual Bangladesh profile], was arrested Monday on corruption allegations, according to local media. [read post]
