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...working at a hospital in Liverpool, England, at the time and all appropriate checks had been done to confirm his qualifications. "He was a good employee who was interested in learning his emergency duties at the Gold Coast Hospital. He was regarded by the doctors as a model citizen and had excellent references," Beattie told reporters. Haneef earned his qualifications in India; he was engaged to undertake 10 weeks training in emergency medicine before taking up a position at a rural clinic in Queensland...
...nothing to do with it, and that accepting blame was the political price for getting back into the U.S.'s good graces. "Until now the perpetrators are unknown," Gaddafi told TIME in 2006. The Libyans reiterated their denial of guilt following Thursday's SCCRC report. "We believe that our citizen is innocent and we have nothing to do with Lockerbie," Gaddafi's son, Seif al-Islam, told TIME. But accepting responsibility for Lockerbie in 2003 was a condition of the U.N. lifting sanctions and the U.S. removing Libya from its list of states sponsoring terrorism. The North African state...
...hold on to it. With a population of 1 billion people, Indians have to fight at least 10 times as hard as any Westerner to be heard. And even then, most of their voices are drowned out by the shouts of corrupt investors and politicians. Yet wondrously enough, each citizen wakes up every morning with the perseverance to keep India afloat. Robinson claimed that unfulfilled expectations raised by marketing campaigns such as "Incredible India" only make Westerners realize "the lack of progress." As an Indian citizen living abroad, I see the very reason we continue to fight. Arundhati Ray, Lund...
...president of a foreign country currently living under house arrest 11,000 miles away , however... that's a new one, even for Japanese democracy. But on Thursday morning the tiny conservative People's New Party (PNP) confirmed that Alberto Fujimori, the former president of Peru and a Japanese citizen, would campaign for the Diet under the PNP's banner. "I have agreed to run in the upper house elections," Fujimori told reporters at a press conference at the PNP's headquarters in Tokyo. "Please give me your support...
...that was marred by allegations of ballot rigging, Fujimori abruptly fled for Japan and resigned his office - by fax. The new Peruvian government demanded his extradition, but Tokyo refused. Fujimori's parents had supposedly registered his birth with the Japanese embassy in Lima, which meant he remained a Japanese citizen, and therefore safe from extradition. Fujimori lived in his parents' homeland under the patronage of conservative Japanese politicians until 2005, when he made a surprise trip back to South America in preparation for a political comeback in Peru - only to be immediately arrested by Chilean police...