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...Gandhi remains leader of the Congress Party and the ruling Congress-led coalition, but stepped down as MP for the northern Indian district of Rae Bareli on Thursday to deflect opposition allegations that her chairmanship of a government think-tank broke parliamentary conflict-of-interest rules. Singh, meanwhile, is an unelected economist appointed by Gandhi herself almost two years ago after she recorded a surprise win in India's general election but declined the top job because of nationalist protests against her immigrant roots...
...Stunned opposition parties anticipating a long and loud campaign against Gandhi tried to claim they forced her hand. But their crowing sounded hollow, and hypocritical: only one of 43 other MPs accused of breaking the same rules on conflict of interest agreed to follow Gandhi's example and also step down. "Once again she's shown she is the one person to whom power genuinely does not mean anything," said Hindustan Times editorial director Vir Sanghvi. "Whatever authority she has derives from that morality...
...described centrist Kadima party, headed by acting prime minister Ehud Olmert, is expected to garner less than 40 seats. Kadima will need partners, and increasingly, it looks like one of those may well be Avigdor Lieberman, a gravel-voiced settler, originally from Moldovia, whose views of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are described by critics as "racist" and "fascist...
...Among the 430-odd foreigners kidnapped in Iraq so far in this conflict, only a few have been similarly rescued. By and large, the hostages are freed, for whatever reason, at the whim of their captors, or, else murdered once their presence becomes too problematic or unprofitable. The taking of these harmless humanitarians served, if nothing else, to remind that there?s only so far good intentions will take you in Iraq. That they bore no ill will, were staunchly non-violent, sympathetic to the Iraqis? plight, earnestly assimilating, and even anti-American in a barely veiled way, meant nothing...
...Perhaps, but there's hardly any certainty over that outcome - even in the new Afghanistan liberated from the rule of the Taliban, personal status issues are governed by Islamic Sharia law rather than a civil code. And it's not clear how a conflict between Sharia and the Afghan constitution's embrace of U.N. Human Rights conventions that guarantee freedom of worship would be resolved. The country's chief justice, Fazl Hadi Shinwari, has no secular legal education, and had previously been the head of a Council of Islamic Scholars. He is also a close associate of Abdul-Rabb...