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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Sunni Muslim members on a committee drafting Iraq's new constitution suspended their participation Wednesday in the wake of a colleague's assassination, saying they need more security. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside an army recruiting center in central Baghdad, killing at least 10 people. The suicide attacker detonated his explosives belt at the entrance to a recruiting center at Baghdad's defunct Muthanna airport, according to police and medical officials.
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The Council and the General Assembly of the International Maritime Organization ("IMO" or "the Organization") is currently faced with a constitutional issue that has remained unresolved since its founding half a century ago. The Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization ("IMCO"), the forerunner of the IMO, was established by the International Maritime Conference in Geneva in 1948. Its main technical organ then, the Maritime Safety Committee ("MSC" or "the Committee"), was to be elected from among the eight "largest ship-owning nations " in accordance with Article 28(a) of the Organization's 1948 Convention (the "Convention"). The Convention's drafters intended to limit membership of the Committee to a few exclusive and dominant traditional maritime nations ("TMNs")1 with eff...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- More Sunni Muslim Arabs will be appointed to join elected lawmakers in drafting Iraq's new constitution, President Jalal Talabani said Thursday, a day after the Sunnis threatened to boycott the process. Meanwhile, 19 security guards for a North Carolina-based company were detained for three days in a military jail by U.S. Marines following an alleged shooting spree May 28, and some of the contractors complained they were abused while in custody.
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I just didn't realize that a member wasn't present," said Sen. Thomas Libous, RBinghamton, who was acting as the committee chairman during the meeting. "We had a member who was not here and that created a problem, it's that simple. "The lieutenant governor is not an elected member of the Senate," Libous said after the committee meeting. "We used language out of the constitution that basically states that. We believe it's good language." "It takes 20 minutes to read these rules changes. Frankly, Mr. Chairman, I think we've seen this become frankly a filibuster," he said. "I haven't heard one solid argument against these rules."
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DENVER - In the wake of what many view as the "Amendment 41 debacle," a legislative measure that would make it harder for voters to amend the Colorado Constitution is gaining momentum. House Concurrent Resolution 1001 won the approval of the House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee on Thursday by a 7-4 vote. Measures like it have surfaced for the past four years, but Rep. Al White, R-Winter Park, said this year the General Assembly appears more open to it.
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Southern Sudan will become Africa's newest nation in July, but politicians are already squabbling among themselves and worrying Western supporters who hoped for a smooth passage to democracy after the continent's longest civil war. The ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) excluded most opposition parties from a committee to draft a temporary constitution. Some advocates for democracy fear that move could foreshadow the creation of just another one-party government in Africa.
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BATA, Equatorial Guinea, May 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea has signed a decree creating a to recommend changes in the constitution. The National for the Reform of the Fundamental Law of Equatorial Guinea, composed of members of congress and legally constituted political parties, is charged with leading effort to reform the fundamental law of Equatorial Guinea. This is an effort by the government to systematically and progressively pursue greater democracy and pluralism as the nation develops.
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Gov. Jay Nixon has appointed a University of Missouri-Kansas City junior to serve as the student representative on the UM System Board of Curators. Amy Johnson of Kansas City is a biology student and a trustees scholar, a prestigious program that awards full-ride scholarships. She is a member of the School of Biological Sciences Student Affairs Action Group and is on the Student Government Association constitution committee. Johnson also is editor of the school's undergraduate research journal.
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Americans should love gridlock. That is the opinion of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia who, with Justice Stephen G. Breyer, recently testified before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on "Considering the Role of Judges Under the Constitution of the United States.
