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Alternative candidates include a collection of current leaders: Jan Peter Balkenende from the Netherlands, François Fillon from France and Jean-Claude Juncker from Luxembourg. With the presidencies of the European Commission and European Parliament already held by men, equality campaigners have suggested female candidates including the former Irish President Mary Robinson...
...Standing Up to Taliban Corruption In your article "How the Taliban Thrives," you state that a local businessman, Hajji Lala Jan, was subcontracted by a local firm working for the German government's aid agency GTZ to build a road in Kunduz, in Afghanistan, and that Jan handed some cash to a Taliban middleman [Sept. 7]. We would like to point out that the project mentioned is not a GTZ project, and no one of that name has ever worked as a subcontractor for us. Neither we nor our partners make any payments to antigovernment groups. All of our projects...
Standing Up to Taliban Corruption In your article "How the Taliban Thrives," you state that a local businessman, Hajji Lala Jan, was subcontracted by a local firm working for the German government?aid agency GTZ to build a road in Kunduz, in Afghanistan, and that Jan handed some cash to a Taliban middleman [Sept. 7]. We would like to point out that the project mentioned is not a GTZ project, and no one of that name has ever worked as a subcontractor for us. Neither we nor our partners make any payments to antigovernment groups. All of our projects...
...PFEIFFER, White House deputy communications director, acknowledging that the Obama Administration may not be able to fulfill its promise to close the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay by Jan...
...choice - so much so that some critics suggested it was high time for Sweden, which manages all the other Nobel prizes, to take back the peace prize. "Obama said today that he was surprised and humble, and even that he did not honestly feel he deserves the prize," Jan Gunnar Furuly, writer for Norway's biggest newspaper Aftenbladet, said in an Email to TIME." I think most Norwegians do not understand the decision to give Obama the prize, and a lot of us are really embarrassed over the fact that the committee could give it to the president after...