KABUL, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber struck a funeral gathering in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least 19 people, including a member of parliament, and heightening fears of an accelerating slide into violence in a part of the country that was once relatively peaceful. The attack, which also left dozens of mourners injured, took place in the city of Taloquan, the capital of Takhar province, north of the capital of Kabul, where relatively few coalition troops are present and the insurgents are thought to be gaining strength.
WASHINGTON, May 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The court system in Bahrain is working and justice is being served, said a Bahraini Member of Parliament visiting Washington this past week. We have a high level of justice in Bahrain, as demonstrated by the most recent trial of protesters," said Isa AbdulJabbar AlKooheji, Member of Parliament. "The court system is transparent and weighs the evidence carefully.
Margaret Thatcher, the United Kingdom 's first female Prime Minister, moved to initiate policy that would see gender equality in recruitment and pay in the armed forces, but not for pensions or combatant roles. In a review of the events and Thatcher's formulation of policy toward women in the armed forces, as a debate on gender equality and social justice, the salient variables and issues taken into consideration include: Thatcher's personal agenda; her ideological position; her policy priorities; her relations with women organizations; the domestic and international political situation in which she lived; and such concerns that she might have entertained, such as appearing to show favoritism toward other women or indeed appearing to be weak. Thatcher, the Member of Parliament, had pref...
NOTE : The President spoke at 11:01 a.m. in the Oval Office at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to Prime Minister Fuad Siniora of Lebanon; Adm. William J. Fallon, commander, U.S. Central Command; and former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri of Lebanon, who was assassinated on February 14, 2005. Mr. Hariri referred to Parliament Member [Antoine Ghanem] of Lebanon, who was assassinated on September 19.
In the Bahamas, R.F. [Richard Frederick Anthony Roberts] fought for the majority rule, majority vote, women's right to vote, improved educational facilities and social justice. A member of the National Committee for Positive Action, Anthony joined forces with the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP). The Honorable R.F. Roberts led the Bahamas delegations at conferences, conventions and meetings in Jamaica, W.I., India, Trinidad, Venezuela and London, England. According to Edward Fitzgerald, "It was a special honor to know such a humble, honest man." He served as minister of agriculture and fishing and local government, minister of home affairs, and on several occasions, as the acting minister of education. Former Prime Minister the Rt. Honorable Sir Lynden Pindling appointed him to the post ...
CENTERVILLE -- That the nation's oldest private black university, Wilberforce, is named for a white man, is probably little known. But even more startling is that 200 years after William Wilberforce, a member of the British Parliament, fought for two decades to end the slave trade in the British Empire, his name isn't a household word, according to Marshall Mitchell, executive vice president of Wilberforce University.
[...] English courts have liberally taken cases that had virtually no connection to the country. Denis Macshane, a Labour Party member of Parliament, was apparendy referring to Eady in a December 2008 debate as he explained the problem with having one judge handle the bulk of significant libel cases: I shall not name him, because he is an honorable man, but it cannot be right that one area of law is principally in the hands of a single judge.
[Earl Spencer] was a thorn in the sides of both government and opposition forces in his heyday. The man, who was born in Trench Town in 1939, to a top civil servant and a poor mother, was sent into exile by the PNP government, and expelled from the JLP. He boasts that he was named `Best MP' for 86, 87, and 88 by the Gleaner Annual. "I know that I used to work hard for the poor," he reiterated. Why is Spencer so angry that he has to be institutionalized? "All my years of advocating for poor people, and it doesn't matter which side of the political fence, I guess I have internalized some of the pain, when I remember the work I used to do ... I did my best... there has been no result from my representation," he told the Gleaner from the institution in Florida.
MONTREAL - Phoenix Coyotes captain Shane Doan sued a member of Parliament on Tuesday, contending that Denis Coderre falsely accused him of making a slur against French speakers during an NHL game. Doan also demanded in the lawsuit filed in Quebec superior court that Coderre, a former sports minister, make a public retraction.
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