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The third time's clearly the charm. In finally selecting the government's third nominee to run the central bank, Japan has acted in the nick of time. Amid a global economic crisis, the sigh of relief is almost audible in Tokyo following the decision of the world's second...
Kenya's political opposition has suspended talks with President Mwai Kibaki on forming a coalition government, claiming that the Kenyan leader and his allies had no intention of honoring a power-sharing agreement that ended more than a month of bloodshed after disputed December elections. As news of Tuesday's...
The agreement brokered by Annan, signed in late February, had fostered hope that Kenya would avert a meltdown, but anxieties have simmered as the two political coalitions bickered over the allocation of ministries. Kibaki may have tied his own hands by his post-election decision to hand out the most...
Six months of testimony, 250 witnesses, a $6 million bill for the British taxpayer, and 23 hours of deliberation by the jury have all boiled down to one moment. On April 7, at around 4.30pm London time, five men and six women delivered their verdict on the deaths of...
Originally instructed to emerge with a unanimous verdict, the jury was deadlocked into the fourth day of deliberations. The judge, coroner Scott Baker, then told them he would accept a majority decision of nine jurors. An hour after that, they came back with "unlawful killing." In an inquest of few...