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...Defense Robert Gates has just endorsed a plan that would give $20 billion to build up Afghanistan's military and police forces. But what is the use of improving the police sector when the judicial system is unable to successfully prosecute criminals? A few countries are beginning to address this problem. Norway has just announced a $6 million contribution to Afghanistan's justice-sector reform program, in addition to the $21 million already donated by other countries. The fund will cover legal reform, training, court and office rehabilitation, computers and legal assistance...
...suggestions that he was poised to step down. Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, the president of the pro-Musharraf Pakistan Muslim League-Q, said Musharraf was prepared to face his accusers and had enlisted the support of leading lawyers to represent him in the impeachment proceedings. Indeed, in a rare televised address on the occasion of the 61st anniversary of Pakistan's independence, Musharraf betrayed no intent to resign. Instead he urged a return to "political stability" through an approach of "reconciliation, not confrontation...
...last 24 hours anytime soon. Late last night, even President Mikhail Saakashvili's office expected an attack on the city by morning. Rumors swirled that tanks were on the edge of town and that the capital would be shelled. Saakashvili appeared on the verge of tears in a national address, and later, in the middle of the night, he had one of his senior ministers address the Georgian people to urge them not to panic...
...same Joyce McKinney who is still technically a fugitive from British justice. But confronted by the weight of circumstantial evidence - Joyce McKinney's middle name is Bernann, both are former beauty queens, both owned pitbulls and even appear to share the same social security number, birth date and home address - Bernann McKinney confessed to being a reinvention rather than a clone of her former self. "I thought people would be honest enough to see me as a person who was trying to do something good and not as a celebrity," a tearful McKinney told the Associated Press in a phone...
...bounciness of the mat. Today, he acknowledged that "When I came to Beijing, my ankle was not 100%." The ankle injury is the result of bone spurs that dig into Hamm's tibia, or lower leg bone, and causes extreme pain. And while he did not address why he hadn't taken care of the painful spurs earlier, Hamm had already weathered a severe pectoral tear earlier this year, and underwent a lengthy recovery and rehabilitation process to restore himself into Olympic shape...