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...with the rest of the country." Derzhko believes the east's succession threats are a political ploy to wrench concessions from the new government. Those threats are a powerful weapon for the Kremlin, though for now Russian President Vladimir Putin is talking sweet. On Friday, he told visiting Spanish PM Jos? Luis Rodr?guez Zapatero that he "could only be pleased" if Ukraine were to be welcomed into the E.U. "Ukraine's turned out to be Putin's worst failure," says one official in Moscow. If Putin fails to install Yanukovych and thus "loses" Ukraine, the official says, his domestic position...
...party and offers critics another chance to cast grave doubts on his legacy. Since becoming PM for the second time in 2001, he has pushed through several laws aimed at easing his legal troubles, including a 2003 immunity measure for top government officials that temporarily suspended the Milan case. That law was overturned, and the trial resumed in April. The latest verdicts may not change many minds in Italy, but perhaps they can start to change the subject. - By Jeff Israely Saddam's Supplier? THE NETHERLANDS Police arrested businessman Frans van Anraat on charges of war crimes and involvement...
...things we’re going to do with our company but it’s not always possible when you’re in the private sector because they’re only concerned with the bottom line,” says Ken Foscaldo, General Manager of AM PM Cleaning, which cleans 5 Brattle St. “We care, but we’re constrained with our finances. [The parity policy] is great for a company like us that wants to do good by our employees...
...Spaeth; Reported by Nelly Sindayen Early Poll PORTUGAL Socialist President Jorge Sampaio announced he will dissolve Parliament and call early elections. He said he no longer had confidence in the four-month-old administration of Social Democrat Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes, who assumed power in July when former PM José Manuel Barroso left to head the European Commission. The poll is expected in February. ETA Strikes Again SPAIN Authorities attributed five coordinated bomb blasts at petrol stations in Madrid, which injured two policemen, to Basque terrorist group ETA. The attacks suggest that the group remains active despite high...
...opposition National League for Democracy; from jails around the country; in Burma. Reasons for the mass release remain unclear; the move follows last month's purge of Prime Minister Khin Nyunt by the junta, and state media have reported that the prisoners had been "inappropriately" jailed by the former PM's intelligence apparatus. Min Ko Naing, a leader of 1988's student democracy protests, had been in jail since March 1989. Suu Kyi, Burma's most prominent political prisoner, remains under house arrest in the Burmese capital...