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...intention to try the suspects, Malik announced that a criminal report had been registered and read its reference number. The Pakistani government is also making a cross-border appeal for further help before beginning prosecutions. A list of 30 questions has been forwarded to New Delhi, including a request for DNA samples of the 10 gunmen, details of their intercepted conversations with handlers in Pakistan and information on a possible Indian connection. There was also a suggestion by Pakistani officials that the two fugitive handlers could be in India...
...treatment in the Czech Republic, the only country in Europe that continues to surgically castrate sex offenders. The Czech government insists the procedure is a medical issue, one that permanently reduces testosterone levels to lower an offender's sexual urges. And officials say it is performed only at the request of the prisoners themselves. (See pictures of prison life...
...support - three more than the President got in the House. They come at a cost. Depending on what the final bill amounts to, the deal could cost more than $35 billion in cuts per Republican vote. And that's after the Dems removed several provisions at the G.O.P. senators' request - from family planning for low-income women to money to restore the National Mall. Senator Susan Collins, the lead Republican negotiator said that minuscule support from her party proved how hard it will be for Obama to overcome deep political divisions. "It's really unfortunate as I think the American...
Nearly five years after confessing to his role in the world's biggest nuclear-proliferation scandal, the disgraced nuclear scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan has been set free after securing a surprise court triumph. Bowing to a six-week-old request that he be released from house arrest, the Islamabad High Court on Friday declared Khan "a free citizen," allowing him to walk out of his prolonged sentence. Moments after the decision, the man who in 2004 tumbled from grace after admitting to hawking nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea stepped out onto the front porch...
...Nadezhda Kumyiny is one of them. She's phoning from a small village in the Kursk region, southeast of Lyudinovo. She wants to borrow 30,000 rubles--just over $1,000. The woman taking her call fills in the details on a screen. Experienced workers can process a request and grant preapproval in under six minutes, but Kumyiny can't remember her postal code, which slows everything down. Watching over the process is deputy operations director Viktoriya Selezneva, who says the economic crisis has yet to arrive. "The volume of calls hasn't decreased for us," she says. And should...