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...Australia and New Zealand now spend tens of millions of dollars a year to help small island states tackle corruption, tighten border controls and train law-enforcement officers. Police and customs agents from both countries played key roles in investigating the Fiji ice lab, and cleaning it up. Australia and New Zealand are also helping small states update their antiquated laws. Police had to wait 14 months to smash the ice gang because Fijian law does not ban methamphetamine's ingredients, only the finished product. A new drug bill?increasing the top sentence for trafficking from eight years to life...
Australia and New Zealand now spend tens of millions of dollars a year to help small island states tackle corruption, tighten border controls and train law enforcement officers. Police and customs agents from both countries played key roles in investigating the Fiji ice lab. Australian Justice Minister Chris Ellison says the case "shows how important it is to have an Australian law enforcement presence in the region," both to protect the country and to stabilize its neighbors. The nine-nation mission to restore order to Solomon Islands, he says, is a model of what close cooperation can achieve. Australia...
...million users worldwide, iTunes' arrival is music to their ears. France's Real Power Brokers France likes its picket lines. Strikes creating overcrowded subways or undelivered mail rarely dampen public support for striking workers. But sympathy sank last week when power workers cut off electric supplies at Paris' main train stations, stranding a half million angry passengers. After this fumble, the strikers are now scrambling to rally public opinion. In the northern city of Lille, local electric company employees switched residents from daytime electricity rates to the 39% cheaper nighttime rates. Activists caused a temporary power cut at toll booths...
...wreak havoc in Saudi Arabia, the homeland of Osama bin Laden, by taking aim at foreigners working in the kingdom. Two days after the attack on the journalists, a hit squad believed to be linked to al-Qaeda gunned down Robert Jacobs, an American working on a contract to train the Saudi Arabian National Guard, outside his Riyadh home. An almost identical attack in the capital on Saturday killed Kenneth Scroggs, an American who worked for Advanced Electronics Co., a Saudi firm that supplies technology to the armed forces. And in a further escalation, al-Qaeda claimed Saturday to have...
...climax to the 2000 trio of Encores! shows, "Wonderful Town" was a palpable hit: ecstasy in the audience, a rave from New York Times critic Ben Brantley for the 42-year-old Murphy and 19-year-old Laura Benanti. (Another gifted starlet coming off of a the train.) At the Saturday night performance I ran into Harvey Weinstein, the Miramax Films co-chairman who has backed such Broadway shows as "The Producers," "Sweet Smell of Success," Baz Luhrmann's "La Boheme," and who would win an Oscar for Best Picture when he produced the 2002 movie version of "Chicago" (directed...