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Ukraine president taking new cabinet law to court after veto override
A political confrontation between the Verkhovna Rada , the Ukraine parliament, and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko [official website; BBC profile] appears to be heading to the country's Constitutional Court after the parliament Friday pass (More) |
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US court sentences former Ukraine PM to nine years prison for money laundering
At the end of the first US trial of a foreign head of government since that of Panama's Manuel Noriega, a US federal judge in San Francisco Friday sentenced former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko [Wikipedia profile; defense website] to (More) |
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UN rights council rebukes Israel for human rights violations in Lebanon
The UN Human Rights Council in an emergency special session [materials; JURIST report] in Geneva Friday adopted by majority vote a resolution condemning Israel for violating international human rights laws in the ongoing Middle East conflict invo (More) |
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Ukraine parliament approves Constitutional Court judges, new PM
The Verkhovna Rada , the Ukraine parliament, on Friday swore in 11 judges who will compose the Ukrainian Constitutional Court . Judges are nominated to the court by parliament, the president and by an association of judges. The judges were install (More) |
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Yushchenko averts Ukraine constitutional crisis by accepting rival as PM
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko [official website; BBC profile] on Thursday accepted the nomination of political rival Viktor Yanukovych to serve as the country's prime minister, ending weeks of speculation that Yushchenko's rejectio (More) |
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Ukraine president rejects new coalition government, PM nominee as illegal
A legal advisor to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko [official website; JURIST news archive] said Friday that the plan of Yushchenko's political rival and former Ukrainian prime minister Viktor Yanukovych , to directly nominate a candidate t (More) |
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Belarus presidential election followed by fraud protest
Thousands of opposition supporters rallied in Minsk Sunday to protest what they claimed were the rigged results of the Belarus presidential election, defying threats of a government crackdown. Current president Alexander Lukashenko [official websit (More) |
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Saddam Hussein rights case dismissal [ECHR]
Decision as to the Admissibility of Application no. 23276/04, by Saddam Hussein against Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slo (More) |
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UN refugee agency says Ukraine broke international law by deporting Uzbeks
The UN High Commission on Refugees has expressed alarm at Ukraine's deportation of 10 Uzbek asylum-seekers to Uzbekistan where they may face torture and abuse, alleging the deportations violated international law. An eleventh detainee was ke (More) |
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Ukraine president calls for new constitution
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko [official website; JURIST news archive] recommended to the Ukrainian Parliament that a committee be formed to draft a new constitution during his state of the union address on Thursday. Yushchenko has been in (More) |
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968.
Pay a virtual visit to The King Center in Atlanta.
