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...American Idol; and, in 2007, she was filmed on the show telling another contestant that she doesn't like Chinese people or blacks. She apologized about this shortly after the incident. Then the Moscow tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets charged her with being a Hitler supporter, printing pictures of her brother Nazar wearing an arm band with what appears to be a Swastika. Nazar has denied it was the notorious Nazi sign, saying it was a patriotic symbol; he has threatned legal action against the tabloid...
...Ghraib prison scandal seems to have been laid to rest. The bad news is that detainee families from across the sectarian spectrum don't trust their government. Salam Baten al-Attiya, 30, a Shi'ite from Sadr City, was at Bucca last week to visit his brother Ali, who was picked up by U.S troops on suspicion of being a member of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army. "My brother has been here for a year and a month; keep him here for another year and a month but don't hand him over to the Iraqis...
...reinstate Chaudhry for over a year now. He quit the coalition government after Zardari backtracked on agreements to do so. A confrontation had been simmering over recent months, but broke into the open when the Supreme Court issued a controversial ruling last month barring Sharif and his younger brother, Shahbaz from standing for elected office...
...blasé, and many Iraqis sympathetic to al-Zaidi, including his family, laid Thursday's conviction squarely at the Prime Minister's feet. "This is a political court. Muntazer is being treated like a prisoner of war. He is not a normal prisoner," the correspondent's brother Odai told reporters outside the courtroom. "This decision has been taken by the Prime Minister's office...
...draft law, currently being debated in the parliament, would create a new Internet surveillance system to combat online piracy - one that critics call a Big Brother-like attempt to police people's Web activity. Introduced by Sarkozy's Culture Minister, Christine Albanel, the bill seeks to enlist Internet service providers (ISPs), entertainment-industry organizations and French legal authorities in an effort to identify and dissuade illegal downloading of copyrighted music and video. A monitoring agency would send Web users who illegally download media a cease and desist notice. Should two warnings go unheeded, ISPs would be forced...