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...SENTENCED. Vasana Puemlarp, 65, Prinya Nakchudtree, 65, and Virachai Naewboonnien, 65, Thai election officials; to four years in prison, for abuse of power and misconduct related to ill-fated parliamentary elections in April; by Thailand's Criminal Court; in Bangkok. The three were found guilty of mismanaging the poll?which was boycotted by the country's opposition parties and later invalidated by the Constitutional Court?and allowing unqualified candidates to run illegally, giving a boost to the ruling Thai Rak Thai party. The men, who subsequently resigned their posts, were released on bail Friday and will appeal the verdict, which...
...lipstick-wearing, pearl-toting woman? But that was 1994. Today, Clinton finds herself in a much different position with a much different challenge. As a senator with $22 million in her campaign bank account and a 54 percent national favorability rating according to ABC News’ May 28 poll, she is no longer expected to hide her intelligence behind a façade of makeup. She does face, however, the challenge of convincing the American people that she—a woman!—deserves to return to the White House, this time at its helm. Over...
...Palestinian militant group Hamas, reset Olmert's agenda. "If the Bush presidency was defined by 9/11, for Olmert it came a little quicker," says Daniel Seaman, director of Israel's government press office. "His political stature is being defined now." And so far, he is gaining. In a poll published at the end of last week in the newspaper Ma'ariv, 95% of those surveyed supported the government's actions in Lebanon; 78% said they were satisfied with Olmert's performance, compared with 43% before the Lebanon flare...
...ominous. In two places, large craters, perhaps 20 feet deep, almost completely blocked the highway south. The turquoise blue, postcard scene of the Mediterranean to our right was shattered by the churned black earth around the lips of the craters. Near one, a minivan had crashed into a telephone poll. Inside the other, down the road, someone's car, a red Toyota, I think, looked like it had fallen inside, almost as if it had been carelessly tossed aside like...
President Joseph Kabila is favored to win Congo's July 30 vote, its first free election since 1961. A peaceful poll would aid recovery from a bloody civil war that ended in 2003. But most of his 32 opponents are already alleging fraud...