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When members of three law-enforcement agencies made a surprise search of the Houston medical practice of Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray on July 22, it marked a dramatic turn in the inquiry into the pop star's death: the first official mention of a possible manslaughter investigation...
TIME: When will the transition be complete? Tsvangirai: The agreement does not mention when an election will be held. We left it out deliberately because our elections are characterized by violence. If you have set a date, you will have a situation of election mode from day one. A constitutional referendum will be conducted in the next 18 months, and at the end of that, the President and the Prime Minister will sit down and set a date for elections...
...July 20, he shocked prosecutors and his own defense attorney by changing his plea to guilty and asking the court to accept his decision and sentence him; the judge will decide on July 23. Qasab faces 86 counts, including murder, possessing explosives and waging war against India - not to mention a possible death sentence, which he said in court "would be better than God's punishment." (See pictures of the first two days of attacks in Mumbai...
...Central Asia faces a complex and potent mix of religious conflict, political corruption, ideological violence and increasing poverty - not to mention factionalism within the governments of the region and the countries' distrust of one another. Add to all that fighters returning home to escape the war in Afghanistan, and it's unlikely that declarations of concern from Western diplomats or the presence of the Russian military will soon slow the rising tide of violence...
...consider myself a patient guy. Not to mention, who doesn’t love a little underdog story...