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22 Jul 2005, 12:29 pm
[JURIST] Former Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt [Wikipedia profile] received a 44-year suspended sentence Friday after he was convicted on eight charges including bribery and corruption, according to a legal source in Yangon. [read post]
22 Apr 2006, 3:18 pm
Shiites nominated al-Maliki on Friday after outgoing Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari [BBC profile] gave up his bid for another term. [read post]
26 Jun 2006, 3:46 pm
[JURIST] Voters in Italy [JURIST news archive] have decisively rejected amendments to the Italian Constitution [text] that would have given more power to the prime minister and decreased the size of Parliament [JURIST report]. [read post]
13 Feb 2007, 4:27 am
The rioting began Saturday after Conte appointed a close ally from the Guinea cabinet, Eugene Camara, as prime minister. [read post]
1 Jun 2007, 8:35 am
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan [BBC profile] said the referendum could be held on July 22, the same day as parliamentary elections, [read post]
2 Jan 2016, 2:54 pm
"And:The former prime minister of Iraq, Nuri al-Maliki, has said that the execution of the prominent Shi'ite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr by Saudi Arabia will be the downfall of the Gulf kingdom's government. [read post]
7 Apr 2016, 10:48 am
The secretary made the remarks in a joint press conference with Prime Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa [official website] after the two officials had a private discussion. [read post]
19 Jul 2014, 8:28 am
[JURIST] An Italian appeals court on Friday acquitted former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile, JURIST news archive] in a prostitution case, reversing a lower court conviction [JURIST report] for paying a 17-year-old dancer for sex while he was in office and for abusing his power by asking police to release her. [read post]
7 May 2012, 11:52 am
Last week, President Obama met with Japanese Prime Minister Noda and announced that they have agreed to "a new joint vision to guide our alliance," which includes strengthening energy cooperation and discussions on expanding LNG exports from the United States to Japan. [read post]
21 Jul 2011, 5:36 pm
The nice thing about the recent anti-nuclear position of Prime Minister Kan is that he is really extremely unpopular in Japan right now. [read post]
18 Feb 2004, 12:32 am
Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that it had hitherto been "too easy" for foreign missionaries to come to live in Denmark, which is 4/5s Lutheran; the government is concerned that allowing in such [read post]
5 Dec 2004, 11:35 am
Yuschenko has encouraged supporters to keep up the pressure until President Leonid Kuchma fires Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and electoral reforms are approved to ensure that the new run-off on December 26 is fair. [read post]
6 Jan 2005, 5:25 am
[JURIST] Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi announced Thursday that he has extended for a further 30 days the country's emergency law approved in July but only implemented in November. [read post]
24 May 2006, 8:13 am
[JURIST] Tariq Aziz [BBC profile], the former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister under Saddam Hussein's regime, testified on behalf of Hussein Wednesday at the Iraqi High Criminal Court [official website], where Hussein and seven co-defendants are on trial [JURIST news archive] for the crackdown against Shiites in Dujail following an assassination attempt in 1982, including the execution of 148 [read post]
17 Jun 2006, 3:35 am
[JURIST] Two weeks after the arrests of 17 Canadians on terrorism-related charges [JURIST report] in the Toronto area, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper [official website] Friday announced [press release] that his government will step up anti-terrorism efforts in Canada by adding more security at airports, marine ports and railway systems. [read post]
28 Feb 2007, 1:57 pm
[JURIST] Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi [personal website], who won a confidence vote [BBC report] in the Italian Senate Wednesday after losing a key vote on a foreign policy issue last week, has asked senators to strike down an unfavorable election law that was enacted [BBC report] by predecessor Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile] prior to the contested Senate elections [JURIST report] of [read post]
5 May 2007, 6:51 am
[JURIST] Turkey's Office of the General Prosecutor is investigating Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan [BBC profile] for possible legal violations after he allegedly criticized the country's Constitutional Court [official website] following a controversial ruling earlier this week, CNN Turk [media website, in Turkish] reported Friday. [read post]
5 Nov 2007, 4:02 am
[JURIST] Parliamentary elections in Pakistan will be held in mid-January as scheduled, despite Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's weekend proclamation of emergency rule [JURIST report], Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said Monday. [read post]
27 Nov 2007, 1:48 pm
[JURIST] Authorities in Malaysia [JURIST news archive] may rely on the country's controversial Internal Security Act (ISA) [HRW backgrounder] to halt protests, Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi [official website; BBC profile] said Tuesday after Sunday demonstrations [TIME report] in Kuala Lumpur by thousands of the nation's ethnic Indians. [read post]
26 Feb 2008, 4:15 pm
Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, said:Few governmental operations in democratic countries have shown such a profound disrespect for the rule of [read post]
