Kenyan officials face Hague trial over election killings The Observer | Senior Kenyan government officials suspected of committing crimes against humanity during last year's election violence could be indicted in The Hague as soon as next year, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced. | Luis Moreno-Ocampo said two or three cases could be presented...
Why there is anarchy in the streets Inquirer | MANILA, Philippines—There's a complete breakdown of law and order, but it seems the Arroyo administration is not concerned. | President Arroyo's primary concern is staying in power beyond 2010 through a congressional seat in her district in Pampanga province. | And because the President does not s...
What's Wrong With Charitable Giving—and How to Fix It Wall Street Journal | It's hard to overstate the crisis facing charitable giving today. So let me just say it as plainly as I can: Much of current philanthropic giving, by foundations and individuals, neither meets the needs of our charitable organizations nor addresses...
NEITI: Hard Nuts from Yenagoa Road Show This Day On NEITI and Welfare of the Average Nigerian Rivers State Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Mr. Magnus Abbe, who represented Governor Rotimi Amaechi, set the tone when he remarked that half of the development challenges...
Vikash Sinha brought to Delhi by ED; interrogation begins DNA India | New Delhi: Vikash Sinha, an associate of former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, was today brought to the national capital for interrogation by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the alleged hawala and illegal investments case running into mor...
India Economic Forum Wall Street Journal By PAUL BECKETT | In one room, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, the government's deputy planner-in-chief, engages in a debate about what further reforms India needs to make to keep growth on track and concedes that, when it was growing at 5% or 6%, the countr...
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Berlusconi ally launches challenge in leadership manifesto The Times | A close ally of Silvio Berlusconi will this week launch his political manifesto, a move seen as a direct challenge to the embattled Italian Prime Minister. | Gianfranco Fini, a f...
History made as Chirac is told to stand trial The Independent | Jacques Chirac, the former French president, was ordered to stand trial for alleged corruption while he was mayor of Paris. He is accused of embezzling taxpayers' money to pay mo...
Former French president Jacques Chirac to be tried for corruption The Australian | JACQUES Chirac will be the first former French president to be tried for corruption, officials said today, after charges from his years as mayor of Paris returned to taint the tw...
Corruption Costs Poorer States up to $40 Billion a Year ABC News By Tamara Walid | November 7, 2009 | DOHA (Reuters) - Corruption costs developing nations $20 to $40 billion each year, while emerging markets and financial centers are increasingly havens for stolen assets, a top World Bank official said Saturday. |...
3 killed in Phoenix car-pickup crash The Examiner Comments PHOENIX (Map, News) - Police say three people have died after a pickup truck struck their vehicle broadside on a Phoenix street. | The crash happened around 8 p.m. on 19th Avenue south of Dunlap Avenue when a small sedan pulled out from an a...
Corruption rife 'in every level of society' Daily Star Lebanon | Transparency group highlights Lebanon’s institutional weaknesses that require reforms | By Farah-Silvana Kanaan | Special to The Daily Star | Saturday, November 07, 2009 | - Powered by | BEIRUT: Corruption has embedded itself in every level of Le...
Scientist avoids jail over stem cell fraud The Australian | SEOUL: A South Korean court imposed a suspended prison term yesterday on a disgraced scientist whose claims of stem cell breakthroughs rocked the scientific world until his research was found to be faked. | After a trial lasting three years, the court passed a two-year sentence suspended for three years on Hwang Woo-Suk after convicting him of em...
Pa. school board member to plead guilty over bribe The Examiner Comments SCRANTON, Pa. (Map, News) - A northeastern Pennsylvania school board member charged as part of a wide-ranging corruption probe has agreed to plead guilty to a federal bribery charge. | Wilkes-Barre Area School Board member Brian Dunn said in court papers Monday that he will admit to taking a $5,000 bribe in exchange for his support in the ...
