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...would've seized their cars and crushed them, but it's not legal for me to do that.' KEN LIVINGSTONE, mayor of London, on American diplomats who are refusing to pay the $16 toll for driving in central London, where the U.S. embassy is located, citing diplomatic immunity...
...surprise, then, that when participants in a workshop at the summit were asked to identify the biggest barrier to economic progress, they overwhelmingly chose corruption. An Africa Competitiveness Report released at the forum also spoke of the heavy toll of such practices as "frequent bribes" and "political favors." The report, produced by the World Economic Forum, the World Bank and the African Development Bank, rates the competitiveness of 29 African countries. Zimbabwe is described as suffering "a complete absence of property rights, high levels of corruption and a lack of evenhandedness [in government] dealings with the public." Nigeria is said...
...while running a little start-up relief group called Doctors Without Borders. With his former organization now a Nobel Laureate, Kouchner is back, trying to end the tragedy in Darfur, where government-supported militias have been rampaging for four years. He told TIME he was outraged by the death toll (upwards of 200,000, by some estimates), saying the world must "yell and make noise" about people's suffering...
...incompetence of Iraqi forces helps to explain why, after a sharp drop in the early weeks of the surge, the civilian death toll from sectarian violence has begun to climb. Nearly 2,000 Iraqis were killed in May, the highest since the start of the security crackdown. The familiar signs of Shi'ite militia activity have returned: grossly mutilated bodies of Sunnis are turning up in the streets and Sunni residents in mixed neighborhoods are again being forced out of their homes. Sunni suicide bombings have multiplied...
...nearly 50 Japanese lawmakers from both major political parties took out a full-page ad in the Washington Post asserting that there was no historical evidence to back up the "comfort women" allegations. Last week, an even larger group of legislators announced that they had determined that the death toll of the Nanjing Massacre - where Japanese soldiers slaughtered Chinese civilians over a three-week period - was just 20,000, one-tenth of the figure widely accepted among historians. Even without wading into the morass of what constitutes "historical evidence," such endeavors are plainly terrible for Japan's image abroad...