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...murdering a taxi driver-convictions obtained in large part on the basis of their confessions, which all four men later said they were tortured into fabricating. Citing numerous problems with the trial-one higher court found no fewer than 28 inconsistencies in the original court's conduct-the case was appealed all the way to the Supreme People's Court in Beijing, which recommended a retrial, as did several lower courts. In all, the case has been retried five times. Yet all four men remain in jail 13 years later. "Even for China, this is an unusual case," says...
...social niceties that Cheney claims "exclusive control" over the names of his guests. The man who could often be found only in "undisclosed locations" after 9/11 likes to conduct public business in private. He fought off the General Accounting Office when it sought the names of oil, coal and utility lobbyists with whom Cheney had met privately to discuss the energy policy that he was fashioning for the Bush Administration - a practice ultimately upheld by the Supreme Court...
...Also, while India has declared a unilateral moratorium on further testing, Delhi wants to reserve the right to conduct further weapons tests should it choose to, and it wants the U.S. to guarantee that its nuclear fuel supplies from American companies are not conditional on India's refraining from testing. But U.S. negotiators want Delhi to agree to a test ban, and to make the fuel supply conditional on adhering to that...
...morning after Nazarbayev signed the constitutional amendments that gave him unbounded power, law enforcers brought kidnapping charges against Aliyev. "The head of state," said a Ministry of the Interior spokesman, "personally instructed" officials to conduct the investigation that concluded with the criminal charges of kidnapping, with a penalty of life imprisonment. Formally, investigators charge him with the January kidnapping of the chief and the deputy of Nurbank, a financial organization of which Aliyev owns more than 50%. Reports have Aliyev allegedly furious that the bank officials were siphoning off money that he believed...
...shifted from hunting down and destroying the enemy to providing security in al Qaim's cities and villages. Capt. Luke Gové, Vistek's company commander, said the Marines are the best-trained and best-equipped force in the area. He asks rhetorically, "Are we the best force to conduct a counter-insurgency? Absolutely not." But they bear much of the burden while they train Iraqi soldiers and police to take their place...