Diplomatic immunity is a principle of international law by which certain foreign government officials are recognized as having legal immunity from the jurisdiction of another country. It allows diplomats safe passage and freedom of travel in a host country and affords almost total protection from local lawsuits and prosecution.
Al-Saadi Muammar Gaddafi,also spelt as Al-Saadi Moammer Al-Gaddafi,is a Libyan retired professional football player. He captained the national team,but his career was widely attributed to the influence of his father Muammar Gaddafi,the country's leader at the time.
The Public Prosecution Service of Canada was established on December 12,2006,by the Director of Public Prosecutions Act. A federal agency,the PPSC prosecutes offences on behalf of the Government of Canada. It is responsible to Parliament through the attorney general of Canada,who litigates on behalf of the Crown and has delegated most prosecution functions to the PPSC.
Graeme Smith is a Canadian author and researcher. He worked as a political affairs officer for the United Nations in Afghanistan from 2015 to 2018. He was previously a senior analyst for the International Crisis Group. He has served as a foreign correspondent for The Globe and Mail,a Canadian newspaper.
Alexandra Mendès is a Canadian Liberal politician,currently serving as the Member of Parliament for the riding of Brossard—Saint-Lambert since 2015. She previously served in the House of Commons from 2008 until 2011 as the MP for the riding of Brossard—La Prairie.
Arthur Thomas Porter IV was a Canadian physician and hospital administrator.
Lavalin was a Canadian civil engineering and construction firm based in Montreal,Quebec. After a major expansion program in the 1980s that led to financial difficulties,in 1991 Lavalin merged with its long-time competitor,Surveyer,Nenniger &Chenevert Consulting Engineers (SNC),to become today's SNC-Lavalin,forming one of the ten largest engineering firms in the world.
This is a list of notable content from the United States diplomatic cables leak that reveals the United States' political opinion towards a variety of international affairs. Beginning on November 28,2010,WikiLeaks had been publishing classified documents of detailed correspondence—diplomatic cables—between the United States Department of State and its diplomatic missions around the world. On 1 September 2011,it released all of the Cablegate documents in its possession without redaction.
Ali Suleiman Aujali is a Libyan diplomat who formerly served successively as Libya's ambassador to Malaysia,Argentina,Brazil and the United States. He served as ambassador under the Gaddafi government,Libya's National Transitional Council,and Libya's General National Congress. He declined the post of foreign minister under Prime minister Ali Zeidan in the government of the General National Congress.
The foreign relations of Libya were largely reset at the end of the Libyan Civil War,with the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi and the Second Libyan Civil War. The current Minister of Foreign Affairs since 15 March 2021 is Najla Mangoush. Although many foreign embassies in Tripoli closed down in 2014 due to the fighting,by the end of 2017 thirty diplomatic missions were reopened in the Libyan capital.
The Commission of Inquiry on the Awarding and Management of Public Contracts in the Construction Industry was a public inquiry in Quebec,Canada into potential corruption in the management of public construction contracts.
India–Libya relations are bilateral diplomatic relations between India and Libya. India maintains an embassy in Tripoli and Libya has an embassy in New Delhi.
Canada and Qatar enjoyed friendly relations and coordination on the international field,long before Qatar's Embassy opened in Ottawa in 2011,including their joint military collaboration during the Gulf War and in the international intervention in Libya. Diplomatic relations between the two nations were established in 1974.
AtkinsRéalis is the trading name of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.,a Canadian company based in Montreal that provides engineering,procurement,and construction (EPC) services to various industries,including mining and metallurgy,environment and water,infrastructure,and clean energy. AtkinsRéalis was the largest construction company,by revenue,in Canada,as of 2021.
Joan A. Polaschik is a diplomat who has served as Director of the Foreign Service Institute since 2022. She previously served as the United States Ambassador to Algeria from 2014 to 2017.
Michael Wernick is a Canadian retired public servant who served as the 23rd clerk of the Privy Council for Canada from 2016 to 2019. Following his tenure as clerk,Wernick joined the University of Ottawa,where he was named Jarislowsky chair of public sector management.
The Padma Bridge graft scandal was a political scandal in Bangladesh in 2016 and 2017,involving the Bangladesh Awami League and the Padma Bridge,a 6.15-kilometer (3.82 mi) road—rail bridge across the Padma River and Bangladesh's largest bridge.
The SNC-Lavalin affair is a political scandal involving attempted political interference with the justice system by the Prime Minister of Canada,Justin Trudeau,and the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). The Parliament of Canada's Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion found that Trudeau improperly influenced then Minister of Justice and Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould to intervene in an ongoing criminal case against Quebec-based construction company SNC-Lavalin by offering a deferred prosecution agreement.
Wafa Bughaighis is a Libyan diplomat,a peace and education activist with a particular concern on women as well as a chemical engineer. She was Libya's Ambassador to the United States from November 2017 until August 2021.
