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...deals on oil fields in the Kurdish areas since last week, when the Chinese oil giant Sinopec announced that it was acquiring the Swiss oil company Addax Petroleum, which operates in Iraqi Kurdistan. "It will be much more difficult to blacklist Sinopec," says Yousni. "This is China, a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, not some small oil company," he says. Having dared to take on Baghdad, China has increased the Kurds' ability to become an autonomous economic power, and perhaps allowed other companies to follow suit. "The Chevrons and Exxons of this world can now do the same...
...literature; a judge denied them bail, accusing them of "polluting the entire society." In 2003, the Indian Home Ministry - then under the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party - argued that it "responded to the values and mores of the time in the Indian society." Maulana Khalid Rashid Firangi Mahli, a member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, said today's ruling was "against all religions. It is against the culture of Indian society." (See pictures of the gay-rights movement...
...despite its widespread use, there have been growing concerns about the non-prescription drug's effects on the liver. The 13-member FDA committee convened specifically to address liver toxicities due to acetaminophen overdose. The group of doctors and patient representatives concluded that the daily maximum dose of acetaminophen should be reduced from the current allowable 4 g and that the maximum single over-the-counter level be set at 650 mg, down from the current...
...this right-wing-populist party had taken a different direction: anti-immigration policy. In fact, in 2002, a politician associated with the party had gone so far as to suggest that immigrants and native Italians should take different trains. And not long after that, Giancarlo Gentili, a Lega member and, at the time, mayor of Treviso, proposed that Italians shoot immigrants like rabbits...
...another $1.8 billion on roads, sewers and a rail line to access it. Now, the government's majority stake will remain, but it will drop to 52%, from 57%. "Hong Kong Disneyland needs time to clean up its teething problems. Then profit will come," says Jeffrey Lam, a member of Hong Kong's Legislative Council...