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...Apart from the embarassing revelations in the Miami courtroom, Argentina's lengthy economic bonanza seems to have been abruptly ended not by the recent worldwide financial meltown but by a series of drastic economic initiatives apparently micromanaged by Kirchner, who now serves as president of the Peronist Justicialista Party, the dominant political force in the country...
...this Umbrian hilltop city, it has been Knox's sweetly scrubbed looks that have generated much of the international attention in the case. Emerging in public earlier this month after nearly a year behind bars, the Seattle native appeared dressed in a simple white blouse. Led into the courtroom in handcuffs, photographers captured the mix of beauty and blankness on the lightly freckled visage of the former University of Washington student...
...seem exotic and far removed from the American collective consciousness with Nov. 4 fast approaching, but the long-term importance of this crisis over Muslim identity cannot be dismissed. On Monday, the first court session of this trial had to adjourn because of the crush of people in the courtroom as protesters thronged Silivri prison-court. Tensions are high in Turkey, not because of empty political wrangling, but rather because dozens of prominent Turkish men, including former top army officers, face charges for planning alleged attacks and assassinations to destabilize the Turkish state. Government prosecutors have accused...
...Following their sentencing, the four aging convicts, dressed in blue prison uniforms, sat on stone benches outside the courtroom as they waited to be transported back to jail. Wives, children and relatives who traveled from Anlong Veng for the verdict huddled around the men to say their final farewells. None of the convicted men talked to reporters...
...Paris courtroom last week, 42 officials went on trial for taking millions in kickbacks and organizing huge arms commissions from the Angolan government during the mid-1990s. In the dock were such big names as Charles Pasqua, a former French Interior Minister; Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, the son of the late French President François Mitterrand; and Russian-Israeli billionaire Arkadi Gaydamak, who is currently a candidate for mayor of Jerusalem. The group is charged with having supplied almost $800 million worth of arms to Angolan President José Eduardo Dos Santos, including 12 helicopters, 6 naval vessels...