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...ills these shell companies facilitate, it's getting easier and easier to open one. That's because it's big business and states compete at offering ever more secure anonymity along with other benefits. Delaware is the well-known leader. The state recently won the dubious top rank in a new Financial Secrecy Index, for the aggressive secrecy and dollar volume it handles, outdoing Switzerland, the Cayman Islands and Panama...
...Tuesday, Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, a little more than a decade after he was arrested, beaten and jailed on sodomy charges, walked into a Kuala Lumpur courtroom to face the same charges once again. In August, the government charged the politician with sodomy for the second time in his career, in this case, with a 23-year-old former aide, Saiful Bukhari Azlan. Under Malaysian law, consensual sodomy or sex acts "against the order of nature," as it is described in the law here, is punishable with up to 20 years in jail...
...Anwar has dominated Malaysian politics for more than four decades - first as a student leader in the 1970s and then as a rising minister in the government of Mahathir Mohamad. Eventually, as a powerful and charismatic Deputy Prime Minister, Anwar was poised to unseat Mahathir and take the reins of government when he was cut down in the fallout over how to tackle the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis. As a prisoner, Anwar continued to influence national politics, turning his plight into a global cause, forming a multiracial political party and putting together an opposition coalition - all from behind bars...
...Lula has promised to work as hard as possible to ensure his protégé is elected, but the health scare throws a question mark over whether the 64-year-old leader has the stamina to both run the world's ninth biggest economy and stump for Dilma. He was taken into hospital last Wednesday with high blood pressure after spending a grueling day in the harsh sun of Brazil's interior. His doctors said the hypertension was an aberration caused by stress and tiredness, and released him the next morning with a clean bill of health. Still, Lula...
...There may be incentives for Khamenei to negotiate as well. The Supreme Leader's authority has traditionally rested on holding himself above day-to-day political decision making and infighting. But in the June election, Khamenei pre-emptively declared Ahmadinejad the winner before challenges to the vote count could be heard and declared that the incumbent was his preferred candidate. By so clearly taking sides, the Supreme Leader diminished his authority and ability to resolve disputes in the country's political system, making his own role a target of protests...