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...keynote address at an October fundraising dinner for the United Jewish Appeal-Federation of New York, Summers also addressed his allegations of anti-Semitism and rejection of calls for divestment from Israel. The text of that speech appeared in November as an op-ed in Jewish Week, a New York-based newspaper...
...that he stop the Cabinet meeting. Yushchenko looked out the window to the wooded hill where, legend has it, the Apostle Andrew erected the first Christian cross in what is now Ukraine, and made up his mind: he would call for the tent city to be dismantled, but also appeal to his supporters to blockade the Cabinet office one more time the next morning, to stop Yanukovych from going in. He then left for the Maidan. His gambit worked: the blockade took place and Yanukovych folded. Three days later, Yanukovych submitted his resignation, saying he would enter the parliament...
...Islamic Relief Services Islamic Relief Worldwide has launched an appeal to raise $4 million for relief intervention and rehabilitation in the region, with $54,000 earmarked for Sri Lanka and Indonesia...
...prosecution, first claiming that, as a former head of state, he could not be prosecuted for acts carried out in performing the functions of office. That defense ran out of steam in 1998, thrown out by the House of Lords (the United Kingdom’s highest court of appeal), which ruled rightly that murder, torture and hostage-taking fail to qualify as legitimate functions of a head of state and so are not immune from prosecution. Gen. Pinochet then turned to his poor health as a defense, and finagled permission to return to Chile as a free man because...
...senatorial immunity: in August 2000, Chile’s Supreme Court stripped Gen. Pinochet of the protection he enjoyed as a Senator-for-life. There remained, however, the pesky issue of Pinochet’s health: after a judge placed him under house arrest in January 2001, the Santiago Appeals Court ruled that Pinochet was indeed medically unfit to stand trial and so forced prosecutors to abandon the case against him. Until yesterday, that medical defense held fast. Though his defense counsel has pledged to appeal yesterday’s indictment to Chile’s highest court, it seems...