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...PLEADED GUILTY. MARK THATCHER, 51, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to charges of helping finance a foiled coup attempt in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea; in Cape Town, South Africa. Thatcher admitted that he inadvertently provided mercenaries with money for a helicopter, but said he believed it would be used as an air ambulance for humanitarian purposes. As part of his plea bargain, Thatcher received a $506,000 fine and a four-year suspended prison sentence...
...also taken its intelligence-based approach abroad, helping police in other countries boost their skills, combat transnational crime, and keep the peace in trouble spots. Its sleuths may not be as visible as their high-profile boss, but they're out there: from Bogot? to Riyadh to Papua New Guinea, keeping an ear to the local bush telegraph and building high-tech information networks that span the globe. "The A.F.P. has demonstrated its capacity to serve the government of the day, the community and indeed the regional community," Keelty tells Time. "The work we are doing in the region will...
...pipes, marching militia and strutting chiefs, two men mounted a stage in the center of the clearing. Bare-chested, in a floral head-dress, grass skirt and neatly cleaned tan boots was Francis Ona, leader of the region's independence fighters; alongside him stood one of Papua New Guinea's most wanted conmen, Noah Musingku...
...committees recommended that Boeing develop a human rights policy and report on its operations in China, but they divided on a proposal to have ExxonMobil disclose information about its oil contract with Equatorial Guinea. This call for disclosure came in response to a “60 Minutes” news segment, which alleged the company gave higher revenue shares to other African nations...
Ashwini Vasanthakumar ’04 lived in Sri Lanka, Zambia, and Papua New Guinea before her family settled in Canada and she came to Harvard. Now, she’s on her way to England...