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...International Money Laundering Abatement and Financial Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001 makes it illegal for a bank to accept funds it knows, or has reason to believe, were derived from fraud. In addition, it's obliged to report its suspicions to authorities. A tangle of federal and state agencies could investigate such potential banking duplicity, but for national banks like JPMorgan Chase the first overseer is the Department of the Treasury's Office of the Comptroller of Currency. OCC examiners conduct on-site reviews of national banks and provide supervision of bank operations. For OCC to investigate, it must first...
...Palestinians driven out of their homeland in 1948 is a story that needs to be told. I have just read Ilan Pappé's book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, and I believe it is time for Israel to face up to this atrocity and cease labeling as "anti-Semitic" anyone who dares to draw attention to it. Jim Kearns, LONDON...
...anti-police backlash playing out around the country is unusual considering that Vietnam is a relatively efficient authoritarian state where dissent is rarely tolerated. In two recent incidents, motorcycle riders pulled over by police set their own bikes alight rather than let them be impounded. Last month, a car dragged a Hanoi policeman 15 feet before racing off. An angry crowd seeing a cop roughing up a driver in the southern province of Dong Nai used bricks to smash the officer?s motorcycle...
...will last its four-year term. Members of his own Likud Party are grumbling that Netanyahu has given away too many ministerial portfolios to woo both Labor and the hard-right party Yisrael Beitenu of Avigdor Lieberman, who is likely to become the next Foreign Minister, despite his extreme anti-Arab views. (See a TIME video on Lieberman...
...Gyurcsany's departure closes the book on an administration troubled from the day it was elected in April 2006. Just a few months after that poll, anti-government protesters in Budapest attacked the Hungarian state TV building, clashed with police, and set fire to vehicles during several nights of violent riots. The riots were sparked by the government's unpopular reform program, which aimed to tackle everything from healthcare and pensions to the size of the state bureaucracy. (See pictures of riots...