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...serving president, Rakhmon continues to command popular support, despite his rule being plagued by rampant corruption, vote rigging and unemployment that has forced around half of the male population to leave for Russia as guest workers. "Lately, people have been using pictures of the president to show off," said journalist Dzhura Yusufi, in an interview on local Tajik television. (Read: "The Russian Empire Strikes Back...
...delighted about the report," says journalist and campaigner Mary Raftery. "For years, we were the lone voices. We lived through decades in this society where people just refused to believe that nuns and priests could behave in [this] way." It was Raftery's documentary film series States of Fear, broadcast on Irish television in 1999, that first brought allegations of systemic abuse in reform schools and other institutions to public attention and led to the creation of the child-abuse commission...
...convicted of being the most powerful Mexican narcotics trafficker of his time, has written 36 pages that mix memories, ideas and reactions to current events from his cell in Mexico's Altiplano prison. After being passed from Félix Gallardo's son into the hands of investigative journalist Diego Osorno, chunks of the text were published this month in the magazine Gatopardo under the headline, "Diaries of the Boss of Bosses...
...that soldiers killed as many as 1,600 civilians and dressed them up as guerrillas to run up the body count and earn cash bonuses. "Uribe already has too much power. He controls the legislature. He has growing influence on the judiciary," says Daniel Coronell, a columnist and TV journalist. "A third term for Uribe would be dangerous for Colombian democracy...
...really nice day. Then you hear a bang. Everyone looks up, and you see people flying through the air.' PETER VON DE VORST, Dutch journalist, after a driver plowed his car into spectators at a royal parade in Holland, killing seven...