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...election would put an end to Romania's political stalemate were dashed when center-right incumbent Traian Basescu won the Dec. 7 vote by less than 1%, leading his opponent, Mircea Geoana, to accuse him of "massive fraud" and push for a second vote. The E.U.'s second poorest member has struggled to maintain stability since its government collapsed amid political infighting in October...
...first Native American President in Bolivia's history, was re-elected Dec. 7, largely thanks to support from the country's impoverished indigenous majority. Morales won more than 60% of the vote, and his leftist Movement Toward Socialism Party secured majorities in both the 36-seat Senate and 130-member lower house. The decisive victory secures Morales another five-year term and allows him to push for further social and economic reforms. While opponents worry that he will centralize power and align himself politically with Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, Morales' re-election brings stability to a country notorious...
...Kirill Kabanov, a member of Medvedev's human rights council and head of the National Anticorruption Committee, a nongovernmental organization, said the attack on Hermitage assets was a highly sophisticated example of reiderstvo. "The tactics were different, but the strategy was the same," Kabanov said...
...some ways, Cockrel is a relic of Detroit's past. She is the only white member of the city council and, when her term ends in late December, she could well be its last. Even though she is personally popular, she is leaving the council partly because she is tired of the scandals that have rocked the city lately. Her departure is a significant moment in the history of Detroit, the largest majority-black city in America. In the 1950s, when Detroit's population reached its 2 million peak, nearly 1.6 million white people lived here. In 1990, though whites...
...full 17-member Supreme Court bench declared that the amnesty protecting Zardari from prosecution was illegal, reviving old corruption charges and raising the prospect that senior members of the government could be dragged into court. On Thursday evening, Dec. 17, the National Accountability Bureau, a government-corruption watchdog, began the process of issuing arrest warrants, freezing accounts and barring some of the accused from leaving the country, local media reported. (See pictures of a Pakistani lawyers' movement celebrating the reinstatement of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry...