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...Secretary-General Kofi Annan bluntly declared the war illegal. The Iraq Survey Group is shortly expected to report formally that the weapons of mass destruction on which Blair based his case for war cannot be found. An eccentric but still damaging motion to impeach him for misleading Parliament over Iraq is making some waves. Recently leaked documents show that senior colleagues had warned him that Washington's postwar plans were inadequate, and that terrorism would likely increase after a war - something he did not tell the country at the time. Looking unusually defensive, Blair used a press conference with Iraq...
...lives with his wife and child in the tiny village of Königstein in the former East German state of Saxony, where he owns three driving schools and is a member of the town council. Leichsenring, 37, was celebrating last week after being elected to Saxony's state parliament. But he's not your typical candidate. He's a leader of the National Democratic Party (NPD), an extreme-right-wing movement that the German government has tried unsuccessfully to ban because of its neo-Nazi leanings. Leichsenring acknowledges that his campaign was partly based on the slogan grenzen dicht...
...INDICATORS Jammed Signal Iran's parliament approved a bill giving the legislature a veto over majority foreign-owned investments in the country. The vote cast doubt over Turkey's leading cell-phone operator Turkcell's $3 billion deal to begin operating Iran's second cell-phone network...
...central government built into the current constitution. And with the national legislature satisfied to remain a pliant tool of the Kremlin, that means more unchecked control for the president. But just to make sure it stays that way, Putin wants every member of the Duma, the lower house of parliament, to be elected using party lists—that is, in the ballot box voters choose a party instead of a particular candidate. This offers obvious advantages to the large, resource-laden pro-Putin parties with widespread name recognition and eliminates the possibility for charismatic outsiders to win a seat...
...something is not done about China, it doesn't matter whether [Cambodia is] in the WTO or not." --Cass Johnson, president of the National Council of Textile Organizations, after Cambodia's Parliament ratified its accession to the WTO, with the expiration of global quotas on textiles and apparel scheduled...