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...been the host and chief promoter of the so-called six-party talks. Their explicit goal: to get North Korea to give up its nuclear-weapons program. When the North launched another long-range ballistic missile in early April, China helped promote the fig leaf at the U.N. Security Council that the rocket carried a communications satellite and thus might not be a direct violation of two U.N. resolutions calling on the North to cease its nuclear and ballistic-missile programs. The result was a toothless "presidential statement" from the Security Council. But with the test of another nuke...
...France earlier this week the Constitutional Council, effectively France's Supreme Court, ruled that proposed laws that would have forced Internet service providers (ISPs) to identify and help prosecute users who illegally trade copyrighted material, were unconstitutional. The news comes as a blow for the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy as well as organizations around Europe that had been hoping that the French example might spur other governments into greater action against illegal file sharing. (See pictures of Sarkozy...
...served in the government since 1989, the year the prime minister's post was dissolved. Since then he has been a member of Iran's Expediency Discernment Council, which advises the Supreme Leader, and of the Supreme Cultural Revolution Council, which monitors artistic expression...
Medvedev told the security council of Dagestan that since the beginning of the year, a total of 235 people - 48 civilians, 112 bandits and 75 law enforcement officers - have been killed in the North Caucasus. Observers believe the real number to be much higher. Following Medvedev's visit, two policemen in Dagestan were killed by gunmen on Tuesday afternoon. On Wednesday, the deputy chief judge of the Supreme Court of Ingushetia was murdered by unidentified gunmen outside a kindergarten...
...country's 46.2 million eligible voters and added that "it makes no difference to us which of the candidates becomes President." Daneshjoo said the government was interested only in holding "morally clean" elections and that according to the law, representatives of the Interior Ministry and the Guardian Council would ensure fairness...