Mexico City mayor returns to work during legal standoff News
Mexico City mayor returns to work during legal standoff

[JURIST] Mexico City mayor Lopez Obrador [advocacy website in Spanish] returned to work Monday despite government contentions that that was illegal and that he had in fact lost his job after the country's Congress lifted his immunity from prosecution earlier this month on a contempt charge. Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans turned out over the weekend to demonstrate [La marcha del silencio advisory] in his favor; the charges that were formally filed against him last week [JURIST report] are temporarily in legal limbo after a judge sent them back to prosecutors on a technicality. Obrador wants to run against current Mexican president Vicente Fox in upcoming national elections, but would probably be blocked from doing so if convicted. Reuters 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

On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly voted to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab territories, leading to the establishment of a Jewish state the following year. Read UN General Assembly Resolution 181.

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