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...trial for alleged fraud, tax evasion and embezzlement; the Russian government's demand for up to $6.8 billion in alleged unpaid corporate taxes; its simultaneous freezing of company assets, which makes that tax bill impossible to pay; and, last week, a Moscow court's rejection of Yukos' bid to suspend the government's efforts to collect the first $3.4 billion. "We can't survive," Yukos CFO Bruce Misamore told the Financial Times. But the motives behind all this have remained murky. President Vladimir Putin insists that "the government should not cause Yukos' collapse," and says prosecutors "are acting...
...government declared a curfew in Sadr City - but reports suggest it has been widely ignored. Since the resumption of hostilities at Najaf, Sadr's supporters throughout southern Iraq have resumed efforts to disrupt the peace. They've been particularly effective in Basra, where Iraqi authorities have been forced to suspend oil exports for the past two days in response to Sadrist threats, helping drive already skittish world oil market to record high prices...
...Once you manage to suspend disbelief over the characters? improbable cell phone reception, you will have to admit that in its melodramatic way, this picture offers a fair approximation of our multitasking lifestyle: ear glued to the phone, eye fixed on the Internet monitor, everyone in the room shouting contradictory advice as we frantically, frustratingly pursue our impossible - and in this case deadly -deals...
...struggle in the Haitians' urgent desire for self-rule? Possibly because as a slave owner and the leader of slaveholders, he could never reconcile dealing with one group of Africans as leaders and another as chattel. So Haiti's independence remained unrecognized by Jefferson, who urged Congress to suspend commerce with the nascent republic, declaring its leaders "cannibals...
...buildings, ambushing U.S. forces and killing more than 100 people, including three American soldiers. Though U.S. commanders continue to say they can contain the insurgency, Iyad Allawi, the incoming Iraqi Prime Minister, said he may impose martial law once he takes office, a move that would at least temporarily suspend many of the liberties the U.S. ostensibly intended to bring to Iraq. "We were expecting such an escalation, and we will witness more in the next few weeks," Allawi said. "We will deal with it, and we will crush...