UK Home Secretary given extension on Enron extradition decision News
UK Home Secretary given extension on Enron extradition decision

[JURIST] A UK court on Tuesday granted Home Secretary Charles Clarke [official profile] more time to decide on a US request to extradite three British bankers indicted on fraud charges stemming from the Enron scandal. A court ruled last fall that the three, Gary Mulgrew, David Bermingham and Gile Darby, could be extradited [JURIST report], but the final decision rests with the home secretary. Tuesday's decision was the third delay, pushing the deadline back to May 24. The US has charged the three with defrauding their former employer, Natwest, of more than $7.3 million using an Enron off-the-books partnership. The three men have argued they can be tried in the UK and have sought judicial review of their case. View the indictment [text, PDF] against the men. Bloomberg has more.

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UN General Assembly approves Palestine partition plan

The UN General Assembly approved UN Resolution Resolution 181 (II) on November 29, 1947, recommending that the British Mandate for Palestine be split into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international zone for Jerusalem. The vote in the assembly was 33 for to 13 against, with 10 abstentions. The resolution sparked a war between Palestinian Arabs and Jews in 1947 and a wider war after Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon invaded the new State of Israel in 1948. Read Resolution 181 (II).

UN divided Palestine between Arabs and Jews

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