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Gov. Mike Easley
(photo: Creative Commons / kakissel)
Ethics law updates in the works
The News & Observer
| The stream of revelations surrounding former Gov. Mike Easley and his family highlights the need for more changes in ethics and lobbying laws, according to a broad coalition now at work at the General Assembly. | Stories about the Easleys and the resulting state and federal criminal investigations...
A Russian traditional wooden doll, Matreshka, depicting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and U.S. President Barak Obama, is held by a street vendor in downtown Moscow, Friday, July 3, 2009.
(photo: AP / Mikhail Metzel)
A moment of truth for Obama in Moscow
Asia Times
| By M K Bhadrakumar | In the annals of Russian-American summitry, Moscow has never before choreographed a welcoming ceremony for the visiting United States president in this fashion. The dramatic run-up to the arrival of US President Barack Obama in Moscow on Monday underscores the complexities of ...
Curbing corruption
The Gleaner
| The provision of public information about how much money was allocated to each school dramatically increased the actual grant received, compared to the intended amount, to primary schools in Uganda. In the 1990s, Uganda set out to increase signific...
Ethics law updates in the works
The News & Observer
| The stream of revelations surrounding former Gov. Mike Easley and his family highlights the need for more changes in ethics and lobbying laws, according to a broad coalition now at work at the General Assembly. | Stories about the Easleys and the r...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s Iron Lady of Finance
This Day
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is a woman of history. A director of the World Bank, she was Nigeria's Finance Minister and then briefly Foreign Affairs Minister from 2003 to 2006, the first woman to hold either position. | As a Minister Ngozi stood out as the ...
Al Franken and the Odd Politics of Minnesota
The New York Times
| At the St. Paul Civic Center in 1982, what should have been a routine re-election convention for the Republican Gov. Albert Quie was underway, but he had dropped out before it had begun. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Erik T Johnson | Re...
Taliban militants are seen during a ceremony to hand over their weapons to the Afghan government in the city of Herat, south west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, May 5, 2008. Over 100 Taliban militants handed in their weapons to the Afghan government, as part of a peace-reconciliation program in the district of H
AP / Fraidoon Pooyaa
Terrorist warchests growing with money from crime, businesses, drugs, corruption
Star Tribune
| PESHAWAR, Pakistan - He moved his finger slowly across his throat, to show that the Taliban kills truckers who don't pay for safe passage through large swaths of territory near A...
Chinese use computers at an Internet cafe in Beijing Thursday Feb. 8, 2007. China, regarded as the world's leading source of illegally copied movies and software, had only limited success during a four-month crackdown on Internet piracy and copyright infringement, an official said Thursday.
AP / Greg Baker
Sun Wukong
Asia Times
| Cracks appear in China's Green Dam | By Wu Zhong, China Editor | HONG KONG - Beijing's new policy that all computers sold on the Chinese market be pre-installed with software to ...
** ALTERNATIVE CROP ** Russian First Deputy Premier and presidential hopeful Dmitry Medvedev addresses Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum in Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on Friday, Feb. 15, 2008.
AP / RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Pool
Russian Paradox Forum
The New York Times
| ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA - Cold and rainy days at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum earlier this month followed each other like waves on the Baltic Sea. The economic forecasts push...
Detroit police chief apparently being let go
The Examiner
Comments DETROIT (Map, News) - The Associated Press has learned Mayor Dave Bing is firing Detroit Police Chief James Barren. | A person familiar with the situation tells the AP he was told by Barren that Bing informed the chief he was being relieved ...
A moment of truth for Obama in Moscow
World Security Network
Russian matryoshka nesting dolls decorated with the images of US President Barack Obama(L) and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev. | In the annals of Russian-American summitry, Moscow has never before choreographed a welcoming ceremony for the v...
Drug-Cartel Links Haunt an Election South of Border
Wall Street Journal
By JOEL MILLMAN and JOSE DE CORDOBA | COLIMA, Mexico -- The candidacy of Mario Anguiano, running for governor in a state election here Sunday, says a lot about Mexican politics amid the rise of the drug cartels. | A brother of the candidate is servin...
Embezzlement
 A teller counts Hong Kong bank notes, front, while Chinese yuan are seen at a money exchange in Hong Kong Thursday, Jan. 11, 2007. China´s currency on Thursday, surpassed the Hong Kong dollar´s official peg rate to the U.S. dollar, marking th
(photo: AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
China warning on 'little coffers'
BBC News
| China is making a new attempt to stamp out illicit accounts known as "little coffers" - money which officials have skimmed from public funds. | Communist Party and government officials have been warned that they will be severely punished if they do not give up the cash. | A party document described the small coffers as a "cancer&qu...
Bribery
An Iraqi woman with her children line up in front of a food retailer in Baghdad
(photo: AP / Jassim Mohammed)
How bribery became a way of life in Iraq
The Independent
| "I paid $800 to get my job," says Ahmed Abdul, a technician working for Karada municipality in Baghdad. "People know this is wrong, but there is no way round it." In Iraq corruption is pervasive at every level. | "Corruption exists all over the world but is at its worst here," laments Ateej Saleh Midhat, a 26-year-old employee of the state-owned ...



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