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JURIST launches Facebook presence
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
October 29, 2008 10:45:00 am

JURIST has launched an official page on Facebook, the rapidly-growing social networking portal. The page is designed to give our US and worldwide audience a space in which to share their JURIST experiences and their common interest in the...

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News China leader signs decree entrenching press freedoms for foreign journalists
China leader signs decree entrenching press freedoms for foreign journalists
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
October 18, 2008 06:12:00 pm

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has signed a decree making permanent certain extensions on press freedom for foreign journalists that were temporarily adopted in the run-up to the July Beijing Olympics. Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao announced late...

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News Federal Reserve Board approves Wachovia-Wells Fargo merger
Federal Reserve Board approves Wachovia-Wells Fargo merger
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
October 12, 2008 09:20:00 pm

The US Federal Reserve Board Sunday approved a controversial merger between Wachovia bank and Wells Fargo that had prompted a legal challenge from jilted corporate suitor Citigroup . Encouraged by the Federal Deposit Insurance...

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News Ukraine court blocks election decree
Ukraine court blocks election decree
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
October 12, 2008 08:48:00 pm

A Kiev court Saturday blocked a decree by Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko dissolving parliament and directing parliamentary elections in the wake of the collapse of the governing coalition. The Kiev District Court made the ruling against the...

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News Italy Constitutional Court asked to rule on law barring case against Berlusconi
Italy Constitutional Court asked to rule on law barring case against Berlusconi
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
October 5, 2008 05:55:00 pm

Italy's Constitutional Court was asked Saturday to rule on a new law granting top Italian lawmakers immunity from prosecution while in office as a judge in Milan formally suspended a long-running corruption case...

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News Fraud charges laid against USAID subcontractor in Afghanistan
Fraud charges laid against USAID subcontractor in Afghanistan
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
October 5, 2008 05:02:00 pm

US Department of Justice officials announced Friday that a private security company contracted by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and four of its executives and employees have been charged with conspiracy, major fraud and wire...

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News Turkmenistan adopts new constitution
Turkmenistan adopts new constitution
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
September 28, 2008 05:22:00 pm

The 2500-member People's Council of Turkmenistan Friday adopted a new constitution for Turkmenistan envisioning a new multi-party political process and providing for limits on presidential power two years after the death of longtime autocrat Saparmurat...

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News Pakistan chief justice swears in 4 more ousted judges
Pakistan chief justice swears in 4 more ousted judges
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
September 21, 2008 07:00:00 pm

Pakistani Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar swore in four previously ousted judges as new members of the country's Supreme Court Saturday, bringing the number of the judges on the reconstituted court to 29. Justice Sardar...

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News South Africa president resigning after allegations of interference in Zuma case
South Africa president resigning after allegations of interference in Zuma case
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
September 20, 2008 07:55:00 pm

Thabo Mbeki announced Saturday that he would resign as president of South Africa in the wake of allegations that he had interfered in a corruption case against political rival and current African National Congress leader...

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News Khodorkovsky appeals parole rejection
Khodorkovsky appeals parole rejection
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
September 1, 2008 08:55:00 pm

A lawyer for imprisoned Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky said Monday that the founder of the now-defunct Yukos oil company has appealed a Siberian court's rejection late last month of his request...

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