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...January, after leaking to the press that there was dissension on the prosecution team over the soundness of the case. The charges against the defendants are based mainly on interviews with the children and physical traces of sexual activity; no other substantial corroboration like pornographic photos, was uncovered. Under cross-examination during the hearing, the children's stories seemed to Stevens to unravel. He came to agree with the defense that an expert on child sex abuse had asked leading and suggestive questions during pretrial investigations. "They're contaminated kids," argues Stevens...
...destroy satellites in orbit - belatedly confirmed by Beijing this week - could mean China is ready to up the stakes. "Symbolically, it's quite an important message to send to Taiwan," says Andrew Yang, secretary general of Taiwan's Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies and an expert on cross-Straits relations...
...Taiwanese military experts, the message seems clear: that the island can no longer rely on the U.S. and its military and technological might to protect it from Chinese forces. Lin Chong-pin, president of the Foundation on International and Cross-Strait Studies and a former deputy defense minister, points to the Taiwan Straits crisis of 1996, when escalating tensions prompted the U.S. to send two aircraft carrier battle groups to the region in an attempt to defuse the situation. In a similar scenario today, Lin says, China's ability to destroy satellites would reduce the effectiveness of U.S. forces, which...
...working guy, that's all I am." When told he was charged with two murders and was being investigated in the disappearances of 50 more women, he laughed. "Hogwash," he said, slouched over a chair in the interview room beside some potted palms. "I'm nailed to the cross," he said repeatedly. And when police asked if he killed as many as 50 women, Pickton complained: "You make me out to be more of a mass murderer than...
...1970s, rural poverty and incessant cross-border hostilities between Israel and Palestinian militants operating from south Lebanon spurred tens of thousands of Shi'ites to migrate to the slums of southern Beirut, dubbed the "belt of misery," bringing them into contact with the city-dwelling Sunnis...