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...added that he regularly speaks by phone with Senator Edward M. Kennedy - who in his capacity as head of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has been working on the issue at a distance as he undergoes treatment for brain cancer - and has been meeting with some of the key players in the House, including Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Henry Waxman and Ways and Means chairman Charlie Rangel...
...While the latest laws have been touted as a tough approach to food safety, China has already shown that it will take extreme measures against prominent violators. In 2007 the country executed Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of its State Food and Drug Administration, for accepting $850,000 in bribes from drug companies. In January, a Chinese court sentenced two people to death in the melamine milk-poisoning scandal. But China's health ministry acknowledged over the weekend that the food-safety situation remains grim...
...prognosticators are correct, the International Criminal Court (ICC) will issue its first arrest warrant for a sitting head of state on Wednesday afternoon. That's when the court will announce whether Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir ought to stand trial on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for his alleged role in orchestrating the Darfur conflict. Regardless of what one makes of the idea of international justice, an arrest warrant would be a historic move that many human-rights experts believe will further erode that sense of impunity shared by dictators the world over...
...result, it is perhaps no surprise that Sudanese officials have become more bellicose about the prospect of an arrest warrant. Last month, National Security and Intelligence Chief Salah Gosh said that anyone in Sudan who tries to execute the warrant will have "his hands, head and parts" cut off. As for the international community, he warned, "We were Islamic extremists, then became moderate and civilized, believing in peace and life for everyone. However, we will revert back to how we were if necessary. There is nothing any easier than that." (See pictures of Darfur descending into chaos...
Those contradictory messages point to what some experts believe is a widening gap between al-Bashir's supporters and other leaders in Sudan, who wouldn't necessarily mind seeing al-Bashir on trial. "An arrest warrant will change the dynamic of Sudanese politics radically," says Christopher Hall, head of Amnesty International's Justice Project. "You have a President of your country who is subject to an international arrest warrant, a fugitive from justice, and the implications for the country will be enormous. My guess is that there will be some very serious thinking among senior members of the Cabinet about...