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...large Turkish force. The few PKK bases near the Turkish border are also difficult to reach, located long distances on single-track dirt roads high in classic insurgency country. One camp that's home to some 300 fighters in a ravine carved by the cold blue waters of the lower Khabour river looked like a beautiful place for an invading army to die. Turkish incursions into northern Iraq are unlikely to have much effect on either PKK fighters hiding there, or on those inside Turkey - where the PKK claims to have twice as many fighters as it does in Iraq...
...Many Guatemalans, especially in the capital, where the impact of the civil war was lower than in the countryside, remember their streets being safer during the decades of authoritarian rule by military strongmen such as Gen. Efrain Rios Montt. Montt was recently elected to Congress despite facing an international arrest warrant issued by a Spanish court investigating allegations of crimes against humanity in Guatemala during his 1982-3 rule...
Legal experts say the family is relying on technicalities to get the will annulled; so far two lower courts have ruled against the Ariases. But the fact that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case worries Lehman, especially since a former justice is being investigated for bribery...
Tuesday evening, Earl W. Berry, a Mississippi prisoner condemned to lethal injection, was just moments away from facing his fate when the Supreme Court wisely granted a stay of execution. Legal experts say that this decision signals to lower courts that a de facto moratorium on lethal injection is in place, at least until the Supreme Court hears a case on whether injection is cruel and unusual later this term. Although this is a step in the right direction, it is a distraction to the real issue at hand: the ultimate end of capital punishment. It seems likely that...
...says opposition leader Leonardi Meza. Although there has been government corruption in Barinas, no evidence has surfaced implicating the family. In 2006, a multimillion-dollar embezzlement scheme was uncovered at the Ezequiel Zamora sugar-processing complex still construction near Sabaneta despite having been slated for completion in 2005. Only lower-level officials have been charged in the case...