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...above. In 1981, a 27-year-old member of the Irish Republican Army named Bobby Sands led a hunger strike at Her Majesty's Prison Maze in Belfast, where he was serving time for gun possession, and used the attention to win a seat in the British parliament. He never served his term, though; he starved to death after 66 days without food. (See pictures of how Northern Ireland has transformed itself...
...Lario's latest public swipe took aim at her husband's plans to put politically inexperienced, easy-on-the-eyes young women on the ballot for the European Parliament elections in June. "Somebody has written that this is all for the entertainment of the emperor," she told the ANSA news service. "I agree. [It] is shameless trash, all in the name of power." Lario said that she and the three grown children she has with Berlusconi "are victims and not accomplices in this situation. We must bear it, and it causes us to suffer...
...This time, Berlusconi offered no apology for his plans to sex up Italy's image in the European Parliament. Instead, he told reporters on Wednesday that "La Signora" - a distant and formal designation for his wife of 23 years - had been manipulated by his enemies in the left-leaning media. Later in the day, he insisted that he would put the so-called showgirls, or young women, on his electoral list and personally accompany them on the campaign trail. Unlike other parties, Berlusconi said, his list would not include "smelly or badly dressed people." But by Thursday morning, he seemed...
...this month, giving him 24 hours to clarify his actions. When the general wrote back defiantly, claiming the actions were legitimate, his removal looked imminent, sending shock waves through the political establishment and the donor and diplomatic community. The key opposition party to the Maoists, the Nepali Congress, disrupted parliament on Tuesday and was joined by 15 other political parties, including a key coalition partner, CPN-UML, to oppose the Maoists' move to unseat Katawal. Even the Indian ambassador to Kathmandu, Rakesh Sood, made several representations to Prime Minister Prachanda, asking him to back down...
...have closed in deference to the new agreement calling for the implementation Shari'a, law. "If the Taliban continue to move at this pace they will soon be knocking at the doors of Islamabad," Maulana Fazlur Rehman, head of one of the country's Islamic political parties, warned in Parliament Wednesday. Rehman said the Margalla Hills, a small mountain range north of the capital that separates it from Buner, appears to be "the only hurdle in their march toward the federal capital," The only solution, he said, was for the entire nation to accept Shari'a law in order...