Word: citizens
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...Rich has been living in Switzerland for almost 20 years now. Is he still a U.S. citizen...
...Most neutral observers believe the case is simply bogged down in the Tanzanian legal system and that New Zealand is only representing a deceased citizen and looking out for the interests of his family, who find it difficult to accept that he would take his own life. Kerstin's relatives, however, are frustrated by what they see as "bureaucratic anarchy." She is jailed, they feel, because of undue pressure from New Zealand politicians, including former Finance Minister Bill Birch-who represented the Camerons' district of Port Waikato, south of Auckland, in Parliament-and former Foreign Minister Don McKinnon...
...talks were suspended for one day after two Israelis were killed, execution-style, by Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank town of Tulkarem. The men had gone to Tulkarem with an Arab friend to buy pottery there; police first detained and then released the friend, who is an Israeli citizen, after deciding that he had not been part of a plan to lure the men to their deaths. By week?s end, the talks had started again, despite the killing of another Israeli on the edge of Jerusalem Thursday night...
After his flight, while the U.S. contemplated kidnapping Rich or putting a bounty on his head, he continued his lucrative exploits, allegedly helping Russian oligarchs plunder their country's resources. "He considers himself a citizen of the world, inconvenienced by the laws of nations," says Howard Safir, the former New York City police commissioner who, as head of operations for the U.S. Marshals Service in the '80s, tried unsuccessfully to lure Rich to a country that would deport...
...thing, whether a Yugoslav citizen should be turned over to the Hague tribunal or be tried at home. But on a deeper level, it's about how, or whether, to confront crimes committed in the name of Serbia during the wars of the past decade...