Word: take
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...Prime Minister may make it harder for the public to believe his version of events. A male voice, which sounds like Berlusconi, speaks intimately with the woman, telling her to wait in the "big bed" - apparently a reference to a gift from Vladimir Putin - while he goes to take a shower. When the same man calls D'Addario the next morning, she reports that she's losing her voice. "And we didn't scream," the man says. There is also a recording of the two people having breakfast, in which the man asks the woman her last name...
...confession, he claimed that he and another gunman had orders to take hostages in the Chatrapathi Shivaji train station, where at least 58 people were killed...
...They were shooting from waist height and fired at anything that moved. I briefly had time to take a couple of frames using a telephoto lens. I think they saw me taking photographs, but they didn't seem to care." - Sebastian D'Souza, who took the photographs of Qasab and other gunmen in the train station (the Independent...
...senior-level arrest is seen as politically motivated. "You could throw a stone into a crowd of senior cadres in any province and hit someone who could be prosecuted for corruption," the diplomat says. "So when senior guys get taken out, it's time to sit up and take notice...
...full redraft of the country's penal code, special units to combat corruption and organized crime and constitutional amendments guaranteeing an independent judicial system. "Although indications of fraud and corruption (including collusion with organized crime) are abundant in the public domain, law-enforcement agencies seem reluctant to take the initiative to start an investigation," it says. "What is still missing is sufficient political commitment for broader initiatives which could form a more decisive, strategic approach...