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...Winkle had dozed off in the 1950s, he might not have felt completely out of place waking up at the annual meeting of China's parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC), which wrapped up a week-long session on Tuesday. Here was Premier Wen Jiabao intoning the importance of "building a new socialist countryside." There were education officials unveiling a campaign to publish dozens of new Marxist university textbooks. NPC delegates, who had dutifully attended mandatory sessions to study speeches by Chairman Mao, even failed to pass a Western-style property rights law because, in part, Party leftists felt...
...does not act alone. Some members of Hamas' leadership are in Damascus, a safe haven from Israeli strikes, which allows them freedom of movement to meet with foreign envoys. And Haniya has to listen to scores of senior Hamas militants?including 11 freshly elected members of the Palestinian parliament?who are among the 1,800 held in Israel's high-security Ketziot prison in the Negev desert, and who communicate with the outside world through smuggled cell phones and notes carried out by lawyers and relatives. According to Israeli sources in the prison administration, the jailed Hamas chiefs have told...
...SURAPONG SUEBWONGLEE Thaksin government spokesman We are aware that the protests and demonstrations have created an uncomfortable situation in our country, so the Prime Minister has decided to dissolve parliament, to let the people decide after they've heard from the protesters and from the government side. Let's see who will be trusted by the people. If the number of people who don't vote and vote for other parties exceeds the number that vote for Thai Rak Thai, Mr. Thaksin has said he won't be the Prime Minister. He has also said that after the election...
...understand the saying that justice must not only be done but be seen to be done. More and more people are saying that the laws have been distorted or misinterpreted to favor his business group. Thaksin's stance is that he's doing everything legally, and he's dissolved parliament to hold an election. But this doesn't address what the protesters are talking about. As the situation drags on, bigger groups of people will begin to understand this distinction between playing by the rules and justice being seen to be done...
...adjusts his bulletproof vest and settles into the back seat of his armored SUV. The U.S. ambassador to Iraq has just emerged from a meeting at the sprawling riverside home of Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, who heads the coalition of Shi'ite parties that controls Iraq's incoming parliament. It didn't go well. For more than an hour, Khalilzad tried to persuade al-Hakim to help revive the Iraqi political process, stalled in part because the Shi'ites refuse to bend to demands by secular, Kurdish and Sunni parties that Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari not be given...