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...strongman President, Nursultan Nazar-bayev, has burst into the open. Last month, opposition leader Altynbek Sarsenbayev, 43, and two aides were killed by state security ( knb) officers. The killing exposed rivalries among those bidding to succeed Nazarbayev, 65, Kazakhstan's leader since 1989. Though Nazarbayev just won a third seven-year term, Oleg Panfilov, a Moscow-based human-rights campaigner and expert on central Asia, says Sarsenbayev was seen as a challenge to other potential contenders for the presidency. According to many Kazakh and Russian newspapers and websites, two of those contenders are within the President's own family...
...DIED. FRIEDRICH ENGEL, 97, former Nazi SS officer accused of executing Italian prisoners of war; in Hamburg, Germany. Known in Italy as the "Butcher of Genoa," Engel was handed a seven-year suspended sentence in 2002 after a German court found him guilty of ordering the massacre of 59 Italian naval commandos on the outskirts of Genoa in 1944. A federal appeals court quashed the conviction in 2004 citing a lack of evidence, and ruled that Engel's advanced age prevented a retrial...
...have many friends. Those still left, like Belarus, or those now coming back after a long estrangement, like Uzbekistan, are ones who share Putin's views on how to deal with terror closer to home. Yesterday, the Uzbek authorities officially confirmed that a month ago they clamped a seven-year jail sentence on the lawyer and human rights activist Saidjahon Zainabitdinov. His official crimes were conspiring with terrorists and defaming the state. But Human Rights Watch and others believe that his real offense was telling the world - including in an interview with Time - the truth about the mass slaughter...
...hours each, after sleeping on the floor in cells infested with ticks, after listening to the hungry cries of infants who had not seen the sun for weeks. While some of their mothers would be released in several days after paying fines for loitering, others awaited a seven-year sentence for crimes like having attempted an abortion. Their infants would join them in jail and grow up as prisoners...
...such ad read, “During Reading Period drink mild George Howell coffee for better grades.” The end of the ad suggested caffeine consumption improves studying. “It was either this advertisement or a $2 hot chocolate sale,” says seven-year Toscanini’s veteran Michael L. Krondel, who finds “nothing at all” wrong with the ad campaign. And fellow employee Elize Casarjian defends marketing caffeine to college students. “In theory, every drink is bad for you; milk, for example, rots your...