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...CHARGED. Takafumi Horie, 33, founder and former CEO of Livedoor, one of Japan's largest Internet companies; with violating securities law, by a Tokyo district court; in Tokyo. Horie, whose arrest in January sparked a stock swoon that wiped out 80% of his company's market value, pleaded not guilty to allegations that he and other top executives falsified accounts and spread false information to boost share prices. An estimated 2,000 spectators lined up at the courthouse to see the tycoon, whose case has been widely covered in Japan...
...Mahmoud Abbas may finally have achieved an agreement to govern alongside Hamas, but the Palestinian Authority president has limited political authority even over his own Fatah movement. It's far from clear that the unity agreement will do much to arrest the deteriorating relations between Fatah and Hamas on the ground, and whether it can succeed in restoring the control of a single security force on the streets of Gaza, where competing militias now hold sway. Hamas will expect Abbas to deliver the release of some of its top political leaders recently detained by Israel as the price...
...alerts in the spring and summer of 2002 about attacks on apartment buildings, banks, shopping malls and, of course, nuclear plants. What little of value he did tell us came largely from a more sophisticated approach, using his religious belief in predestination to convince him he miraculously survived his arrest (he was shot three times and nursed to health by U.S. doctors) for a reason: to help the other side. It's that strange conviction that generated the few, modest disclosures of use to the U.S. Complicating matters is that Zubaydah was more a facilitator--a glorified al-Qaeda travel...
...Mystery of the Double Cardiac Arrest Even surgical residents used to the heady rush of "codes" occasionally encounter emergencies that throw them for a total loop
...worn copy of the Bible, near Provenzano's bed. The soft-spoken don had filled the volume with notations, arrows and underlinings of certain passages. The markings may simply be the solitary spiritual musings of the boss, who was also found with several crucifixes at the time of his arrest. But Italian investigators suspect that the book could be a kind of Holy Grail in a century-long battle to unravel the secret codes and business methods of the Mafia's vast criminal network...