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...President's task force on interrogation and transfer policies for terrorism suspects is readying a proposal for a new unit that will once again join together several agencies. The task force, granted a two-month extension last week, has until the fall to submit its report, but officials familiar with the deliberations say the interagency unit - comprising experts from the FBI, CIA and the military - will be a big element in any new interrogation blueprint presented to the White House. (Read TIME's Report: Why Obama Needs to Reveal Even More on Torture...
...government has recently accused Chaudhry of encroaching on its prerogatives. Earlier this month, he struck down a new government "carbon tax" imposed in compliance with IMF demands to phase out fuel subsidies. Zardari responded with a presidential decree that brought the price of gas back...
...president last year, he looked forward to a quiet life of golf, lucrative speaking engagements, and evenings clinking glasses and tugging on cigars with friends over a game of bridge. He certainly wasn't expecting the summons issued on Wednesday by Pakistan's Supreme Court to appear later this month and defend his November 2007 imposition of a state of emergency - when he sacked the very judges, led by the recently reinstated Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, who are now demanding answers from...
...unveiled a deal that gives average consumers one gigabyte of data (only enough to satisfy the lightest of web surfers) for about $32 - and that was touted as a bargain. Other firms offer unlimited but extremely slow Internet connections, barely capable of making Skype calls, for about $40 per month. "No one can [guarantee] there will be a 90% drop next year, but hopefully there will be," says Christopher Stork, senior researcher at Research ICT Africa, a technology analysis firm based in South Africa. "That's the minimum we would expect, but in the long term, it would be much...
...contrast was stark. When President Barack Obama touched down in Moscow earlier this month, there was little fanfare to mark his arrival. But when Vice President Joe Biden visited the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, two days ago, the road from the airport was crowded with people waving U.S. and Georgian flags. The welcome was so warm that Russian daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta wondered if the Georgian government might rename a square after Biden - just as it had named a road "President George W. Bush" after the former President's visit to the country...