Word: formalization
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...Eight months later, with Perugia enveloped in a typically hot summer, Knox still sits in jail on the outskirts of the city. An Italian prosecutor this week requested the formal indictments of Knox, her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, and Ivory Coast citizen Rudy Hermann Guede for the murder of Meredith Kercher, a 21-year-old Leeds University student. All three suspects have denied any involvement in the murder...
...formal extent of Iran's role remains murky. Some Iraqi commanders are even wary of naming Iran as a party in the smuggling, though they will point to Basra and Maysan as problem areas. "Basra province is a big province and its borders are open, not just to Iran, but to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia," says one soldier. "All three countries are supplying the militias with weapons...
...Maliki made the announcement amid widespread opposition among the Iraqi government to U.S. demands put forward during ongoing negotiations over the more formal Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). The SOFA would create a legal framework for a long-term U.S. troop presence in the country after the U.N. mandate expires in December. The sudden mention of a timetable - a concept aggressively supported by al-Maliki's rivals in the Sadrist movement - may have come as a shock to Washington...
...Unnamed sources within Portugal's judicial police told the Portuguese tabloid Correio da Manha that they "do not have sufficient evidence to allow formal charges to be brought against the McCanns in the disappearance of their daughter." The Jornal de Noticias newspaper put it more plainly: "The police have not found the guilty [party...
...singer Axl Rose has devoted himself to working on for 14 years, the same amount of time it took to carve Mount Rushmore. More than $13 million is reported to have been spent so far to make it, way more than any other album ever. It still has no formal release date. Every few years Rose assures his fans that it's about to be released, and then it isn't. It's gotten so ridiculous that the album title is used to mean something that is long promised but will never happen, like "That marriage proposal is total Chinese...