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...Despite the presence of the 27-minute video, this is hardly a slam-dunk case. For starters, prosecutors face the bizarre burden of establishing that the female in the video was, in fact, a minor. The alleged victim, now 23, has so far denied she is the female in the video. Court documents suggest she could testify on behalf of the defense. Meanwhile, prosecutors are expected to call to the stand several of her relatives, neighbors and friends to establish that she was, in fact, in the video and was a minor at the time. Prosecutors are also expected...
...part, the MoD has said in a statement it does not consider questions about life on other planets; it tracks the sightings "solely to establish whether U.K. airspace may have been compromised by hostile or unauthorized military activity." So why release the files now? A spokeswoman says the ministry gets as many as 150 or 200 requests for the files each year, and under Britain's Freedom of Information Act is obliged to answer almost all of them. "We have other priorities," she says. "The most resourceful thing to do is just get [these files] into the public domain...
...while unleashing a daily hail of rockets and mortars on the Green Zone that left al-Maliki's government effectively the ones under siege. And when U.S. and Iraqi troops tried to press into Sadr City to chase the militia's mortar men and rocketeers, they barely managed to establish a foothold on the southern edge of the neighborhood before the situation stalemated...
...Meanwhile, proposals to fence off Tasmanian peninsulas and establish devil colonies on nearby islands are about to be revisited, though some ecologists oppose using islands because of the damage an experienced new predator could do. Cordoning off peninsulas would also be expensive to maintain and hard to patrol. "Fencing out a disease is much harder than fencing out a predator," says Hamish McCallum. But like others, he worries about relying on captive devils, which will inevitably lose some wild traits: "I wouldn't want all my eggs in that basket...
...Serbian National Council, he is key to local resistance against any power but Serbia in northern Kosovo. Interviewed in his hospital office, Ivanovic, dressed in a leather jacket and surrounded by Serbian flags, says the E.U. would be wise to stay out of Mitrovica altogether. Any attempt to establish a presence in the town will lead to "illegal chaos and instability," he says. Serbs like Ivanovic want to prevent the E.U.-led mission because the U.N.'s departure could be seen as a further signal that Kosovo is a sovereign state - an idea they can't accept...