industryterm:separate law

Victims sued a Mideast bank for financing terror. Supreme Court said they can’t.
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/victims-sued-mideast-bank-financing-terror-supreme-court-said-they-n868721

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that thousands of victims of terrorist attacks overseas cannot sue a foreign bank under a U.S. law dating from the 1700s.

By a 5-4 vote, the court refused to revive lawsuits, dismissed by the lower courts, that sought to hold Arab Bank, which is headquartered in Jordan, responsible for attacks against foreign nationals in the Middle East. More than 6,000 survivors and relatives of those killed in the West Bank and Gaza claimed that officials of the bank were complicit in the attacks.

Beginning in 2004, the victims filed a series of lawsuits accusing the bank of helping to finance Hamas and other terror organizations. The legal action was filed in the U.S. and aimed at Arab Bank through its branch in New York. The lead plaintiff in the case before the Supreme Court, Joseph Jesner, lost his 19-year-old son to a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

(...) The ruling does not affect a separate lawsuit bought by U.S. victims accusing Arab Bank of helping to facilitate terrorist attacks in Israel. That claim was filed under a separate law.

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Steinmeier praises Ukraine’s local elections, says separate law needed for elections in rebel-controlled areas of Donbas
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/steinmeier-praises-ukraines-local-elections-says-separate-law-needed-for-e

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has welcomed the conduct of local elections in rebel-controlled areas on Donbas should be regulated by a separate law, which needs to be quickly developed.

(intégralité de la brève (qui souffre d’une rédaction bâclée avec deux propositions qui se téléscopent - le titre est plus clair))

Edward Snowden : Clinton made ’false claim’ about #whistleblower protection | US news | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/16/edward-snowden-hillary-clinton-false-claim-whistleblower-protection

Edward #Snowden : Les allégations de Clinton sur la protection des dénonciateurs sont fausses

Multiple passes at fact-checking Clinton’s claim this week have concluded that “the protections of being a whistleblower” do not exist in the real world and did not apply to Snowden. A 1989 whistleblower law, for example, does not apply to intelligence community employees. A separate law for would-be intelligence whistleblowers has been deemed a trap because it has led not to protections but to prosecutions.

Ukraine leader attacks Greek ‘disaster’ - FT.com
▻http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/22f31128-2996-11e5-acfb-cbd2e1c81cca.html?siteedition=intl#axzz3fqZEexrA

Ukraine’s prime minister has called Europe’s handling of the Greece crisis a “political disaster”, and said it was already leading to political repercussions for Kiev where opposition is rising to tough reforms required as part of an international bailout.
In an interview with the Financial Times on Monday, Arseniy Yatseniuk bemoaned the fact that Greece was absorbing so much of the world’s attention — and Europe’s financial resources — even as Kiev had to deal with Russian tanks on its soil and was in dire need of more financial help.

“Everyone is so focused on Greece that Ukraine is not the priority. It is not on radars,” he said during a visit to Washington.
[…]
The Greek saga had also complicated his government’s handling of its own crisis, he said, with factions in parliament introducing bills to roll back pension, energy sector and other reforms. In a rare political intervention the International Monetary Fund warned on Sunday that Ukraine’s parliament was risking “reversing economic reforms for the sake of short-term gains”.

Pas un mot sur la loi votée par le Parlement imposant un cours forcé pour le remboursement des dettes (au taux du jour de conclusion de l’emprunt). C’est pourtant l’un des éléments relevés dimanche dans l’intervention du FMI

IMF Warns Proposed Legislation in Ukraine Threatens Reforms - WSJ
▻http://www.wsj.com/articles/imf-warns-proposed-legislation-in-ukraine-threatens-reforms-1436723753

The fund also condemned a separate law passed by parliament earlier this month that would allow Ukrainians to repay foreign currency loans at a more favorable exchange rate, a move some experts have said could collapse the country’s banking system. President Petro Poroshenko has signaled he will veto the foreign-exchange bill.