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Hong Kong: DC election preparation underway

  (JNS) — For the second time in just over two weeks, Israel’s High Court of Justice is hearing a petition calling for it to strike down an amendment to a Basic Law, this time one dealing with the court’s ability to declare a prime minister unfit for office. An expanded panel of 11 judges […]

Gali Baharav-Miara has come out strongly against coalition legislation. Ministers say she should be faithfully representing them; she argues her duty goes further

The "recusal law" strictly limits the reasons a prime minister can be ousted as unfit for office. Petitioners against the law say it is a "personal law" meant to protect

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the former East Germany remembers the deliberate, immediate destruction of industry and jobs for the profit of West German firms and money-makers. East Germans still want to know how this was allowed to happen.

The process of German reunification ended up in economic and social decline for hundreds of thousands

Victor Dawes is only representative from Asia to speak at forum before opening of legal year in London, as he underscores importance of city being on global legal map.

Mayors across Germany are complaining of being overwhelmed by the task of looking after an increasing number of asylum-seekers.

The Anglican Church in Hong Kong had never separated the church and the state, says chaplain and lawmaker Koon

SINCE the unification of West Germany and East Germany in 1990, with the Berlin Wall ceasing to function as a political barrier when the Easts hard-line communist leadership was forced out of power in October 1989 during the call for democracy that swept throughout eastern Europe, much has changed in the countrys economic and industrial landscape and everything else.