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...These things are done, and in the case of Kofi's office, it's been done for some time." CLARE SHORT, former member of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Cabinet, claiming that intelligence services had eavesdropped on U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan...
...taste for tongba, you might like to move on to the other mainstays of the Himalayan liquor cabinet, such as chang?a deceptively strong sour rice or millet brew with the texture of thin porridge. Then there's raksi, a distilled version of chang that resembles tequila. Order this with a tongba chaser, and you might have to forget about sightseeing for a while...
...Qatar and charged with involvement in an alleged political assassination. First, Prime Minister Tony Blair's government caught flack when prosecutors dropped charges against a former intelligence analyst who had exposed U.S. and British plans to spy on U.N. Security Council members opposed to the Iraq war. Then former Cabinet Minister Clare Short, who resigned in protest after the fall of Baghdad and has been a thorn in Blair's side ever since, declared on a bbc radio program that British spies had bugged the office of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. She said that she had read transcripts...
...life imprisonment for five of the accused, and long prison terms for the others. Prosecutors allege that all of the suspects belonged to a Turkish cell of the al-Qaeda terror network. Out with the Old RUSSIA President Vladimir Putin abruptly sacked Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and his entire Cabinet, saying he wanted to introduce a new premier ahead of the March 14 presidential election. All of the ministers apart from Kasyanov were asked to stay in their posts on an interim basis. Putin, who has a near-unassailable lead in the polls, has two weeks to name Kasyanov...
...chosen by BYD, the former bombmaker. The Flyer retails for about $4,700, making it affordable to the 50 million Chinese earning at least $7,000 a year, whom the government considers middle class. "Look around my office," says Liu, the BYD general manager. He has one dusty filing cabinet, bare whitewashed walls and a view overlooking the decrepit former bomb factory. "We can get by on the slimmest profits...