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...newspaper, and once for having a cup of tea with Alexander Kuchma, 22, occupant of the neighboring bed in his 100-person barrack. These charges, says Khodorkovsky lawyer Yuri Schmidt, enable the authorities to deny the prisoner a more lenient regime and eventual parole. (Indeed, state prosecutors still threaten to press money laundering charges that could add another decade to Khodorkovsky's prison term.) But on Wednesday, a Krasnokamensk court ruled his first lockdown unlawful, and his lawyers are appealing the second charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is an Imprisoned Russian Oil Tycoon the Victim of KGB Tactics? | 4/21/2006 | See Source »

...troops of a five- nation West African peacekeeping force began to fan out in besieged Monrovia (pop. 500,000). Doe and Johnson welcomed the troops, but Taylor, challenging their legitimacy, vowed to kill them all. If the fighting cannot be stopped, the attempted overthrow of Doe could threaten the stability of the whole West Africa region. Already, the intervention has ignited bitter controversy among Liberia's neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liberia In the Heart of Darkness | 3/29/2006 | See Source »

...National Intelligence, said recently that "Iran, if it continues on its current path, will likely have the capability to produce a nuclear weapon within the next decade." What is already worrisome is that once Iran has the fissile material to make a bomb, it would have ready ways to threaten to use it. In 2004 Iran unveiled the Shahab-3 missile, with a range long enough to reach Israel and southern Europe. At the military parade in which it was first shown, one of the missiles carried the scrawl WIPE ISRAEL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Iran Get The Bomb? | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

...credibility to the tribunal and allow Serbia to proceed with long-delayed talks to join the E.U. But the deadline is unlikely to be met. The death of Milosevic has fanned nationalist sentiment and increased fears among officials that arresting Mladic now would produce a violent backlash that could threaten government stability. "We are in deep trouble," a senior Serb official involved in the hunt for Mladic tells Time, on condition of anonymity. "There was a time when we could have arrested Mladic but we didn't. Now we want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time To Lay The Ghosts | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

Good thing. The most influential U.S. prelate in Roman Catholic history, Levada is tasked with maintaining doctrine and discipline among the 1.1 billion faithful at a time when several issues threaten to divide the flock. In November the church issued a controversial Instruction on gay seminarians. To Levada, "the document is very clear. A person with deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not suited for the priesthood." Another tricky topic: Should politicians be denied Communion if they espouse policies that contradict church teaching? Levada would like to see that debated more but says, "There are certain teachings that, as Catholics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vatican's Quiet American | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

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