Word: extortionate
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Parallel to the AKP case, Turkey has been gripped by the arrests of an alleged cabal of nationalist ex-army officers, military and civilian militants accused of killings and extortion to uphold what they saw as Turkey's interests. Their views are deeply isolationist and anti-Europe, and they oppose...
There is no word on how the E.G. Bührle's management would respond to such an extortion attempt.
The Kremlin could also be seeking to deepen existing divisions in Ukraine's anti-Moscow ruling coalition between Yushchenko and Premier Yuliya Tymoshenko. The two politicians who have waged a four-year struggle for leadership of the coalition take different positions on the gas issue: Tymoshenko demands that Ukraine raise...
Inzerillo family members and their associates were among those taken down in Thursday's massive roundup, which netted 58 arrests in and around New York City and 19 in and around Palermo. Gambino, Genovese and Bonanno family members were also taken into custody in the investigation, which includes charges of...
Nepal's scars run much deeper than the wounds inflicted by the ten-year civil war in which both sides were guilty of forced recruitment, extortion and extrajudicial killings. Crippling rural poverty and decades of ethnic disenfranchisement are now also coming to a head: criminal elements and vigilante cadres of...