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...million bbl. of oil per day - about 60% of Yukos' output - has been valued by Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein at between $14.7 and $17.3 billion. Reports last week suggested the Kremlin might hand it to a Russian rival, Gazprom, for a fraction of that price. "It's robbery in broad daylight," complains Robert Amsterdam, a lawyer for Khodorkovsky, who says the Kremlin has no right to proceed with what he terms "the world's largest hostile takeover." So far the firm isn't saying whether it will mount...
...several dozen foreign aid workers set to leave Iraq last week after the abduction of two female Italian volunteers in central Baghdad. "We're not going because we're scared," he said. "But it's useless to try to work when you have become a target." In broad daylight last Tuesday, a group of heavily armed men dragged away Simona Torretta and Simona Pari, both 29, and two Iraqi volunteers from the office of their humanitarian agency, A Bridge for Baghdad. Speaking from the Iraqi capital, Rodino, 47, said he'd worked in recent months with both Italian women...
...more support to the troops in Iraq and spinning a fantasy about more foreign troops arriving to help out - serious analysts would be hard-pressed to identify a single country whose decision over deployments in Iraq would change as a result of a Kerry victory - there's very little daylight between him and President Bush over what to do next in Iraq. Much as the candidates can disagree over how the decisions were made to go in, they share a commitment to "stay the course," suggesting that Iraq has already become what Bush administration officials call "a generational commitment," regardless...
...With daylight fading, the officers have toiled for an hour to make the fishing vessel inoperable, securing the wheel and rudder and applying a tow line. Orange life vests are dispatched to the Indonesians (most of whom decide to use them as comfortable seats). While the small, unstable vessel pitches and rolls, the officers search for further evidence in the bilge water and interview the fishermen about their voyage. They also try to explain to the detainees - skinny boys and craggy grandfathers who live on fish and a cup of rice a day - what will happen to them. Cummins wants...
...installation of U.S.-dependent regimes in Kabul and Baghdad would leave Iran feeling surrounded and crank up the pressure on the Mullahs in Tehran, if anything the opposite appears to have occurred. The conduct of the hard-liners - from stealing the most recent parliamentary election in broad daylight to their defiant handling of the International Atomic Energy Agency's investigation of Iran's nuclear program and their hardball negotiations with the U.S. over the fate of al-Qaeda leaders in Iranian custody - suggests, if anything, that they're feeling rather lucky...