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...Much of that pressure is building in Labour's own ranks. The party's coffers are empty, making it more reliant than ever on contributions from trade unions, which are using this leverage to try to push the party further to the left. Increasing numbers of moderate Labour MPs suspect that the only way to attract new donors and ultimately to avoid a swingeing defeat at the next general election is to replace Brown. Among the putative successors regularly mentioned are a clutch of Labour cabinet ministers: David Miliband, Alan Johnson, James Purnell and Ed Balls...
...were widely publicized. Six members of India's Parliament, including two convicted of murder while in office, were furloughed from prison so they could cast votes (while questionable, this is not illegal). The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, a small central Indian political party, reportedly threw the support of its five MPs behind the Congress Party after its leader was promised a top post in at least one ministry. Congress Party members characterized some of the bargains made to lock in votes as routine political log-rolling. Despite a lot of finger-pointing, there has been no proof of bribery or other...
...monuments engraved with life-size portraits of underworld figures known by sinister names like the Doctor, the Russian or the Godfather. Senior government officials have leaked files to mafia suspects and the interior minister himself had to resign after he was found consorting with two dubious businessmen. Ten Bulgarian MPs were stripped of immunity from prosecution last year because of alleged involvement in corruption...
...vote was meant to have been held more than two hours earlier, but it was delayed by an unprecedented display on the floor of Parliament: during the afternoon debate session, a group of opposition MPs from the Bharatiya Janata Party displayed stacks of cash, asserting that one of them had been offered a bribe to abstain from the vote. The commotion disrupted the proceedings as Speaker Chatterjee insisted that the claim be made formally and in writing, rather than on the open floor. That was just the most serious of the allegations thrown against the Congress Party during...
...NATO bases are designed to be delivered by planes from the host country. That arrangement can be politically uncomfortable: when Belgian Defense Minister Pieter De Crem admitted for the first time in January that the country even housed U.S. weapons, the revelation caused a national controversy, with opposition MPs demanding - in vain - for them to be removed immediately. In 2001, when the Greek air force ordered a new fighter jet, it chose a model that could not carry the B-61, forcing the U.S. to withdraw its weapons...