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...After the Scandal PORTUGAL A court released senior Socialist Party lawmaker Paulo Pedroso, who spent four months in preventive custody in connection with a pedophile scandal involving state-run children's homes. Pedroso, who is suspected of 15 cases of sexual violence against minors, resumed his seat in parliament after the body's ethics committee reinstated him. Predictable Poll CHECHNYA Kremlin-backed candidate Akhmad Kadyrov was elected President with more than 80% of the vote. His victory was widely expected as his main rivals were pressured into withdrawing early in the race...
...Sentenced. Gu Tianming, 40, medical-clinic manager; to death, for hiding radioactive material in the ceiling of his business partner's office after a dispute; in Guangzhou, China. State-run media reported that Gu planted iridium 192, taken from an industrial machine, which sickened his partner and 74 clinic staff...
...Number of prostitutes who entertained 400 Japanese male tourists during a three-day "orgy" in the Chinese city of Zhuhai, according to an outraged state-run press...
...deeply religious and passionate advocate for children shared the story of his unusual collaboration with the Chinese government and its state-run orphanages last week...
...That's where we meet Mr. Truong, our guide. His card reveals he's a manager in a state-run tourism company. But we're wondering if he's a government spy. He seems strangely jittery about us talking to people on the road. And then there's his hair. In two years working as a correspondent in Vietnam, I've developed a private theory about communist officials and combovers: the lower the part, the higher the rank...