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...Senate majority leader Harry Reid on Wednesday defended the 2009 earmarks, arguing that while Democrats have worked to shrink the number of earmarks in recent years, such pet projects do play a vital role in the budget. Who better knows the needs of each district and state, he argued, than the members representing those populations? "Since we've been a country, we have had an obligation as a Congress to help direct spending," Reid told reporters on Capitol Hill. "We cannot let spending be done by a bunch of nameless, faceless bureaucrats buried in this town someplace...
...week is assigned a color. Born on a Monday? Your lucky color is yellow, as is the case for the country's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest-serving monarch who is so beloved that many Thais wear yellow shirts every Monday to honor him. Wednesday babies are green. Saturday children are ruled by the color purple. Thailand's Queen Sirikit was born on a Friday, which claims blue as its auspicious shade, so Mother's Day in Bangkok is celebrated with all things aqua and indigo...
...Wednesday, the court convicted two surviving RUF leaders, Issa Hassan Sesay and Morris Kallon, of 16 out of 18 counts of war crimes, and a third commander, Augustine Gbao, of 14 counts. The charges included "acts of terrorism" against the civilian population, the use of forced marriage and, for Sesay and Kallon, the use of child soldiers...
...Leaders of other militias have already been convicted. The court's last case is the trial of Taylor, who initially fled to Nigeria under his amnesty agreement but is now being held in the Hague. Taylor's trial was moved there for security reasons. After Wednesday's judgment, the prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Stephen Rapp, spoke to TIME's Africa bureau chief Alex Perry by phone from the court's offices in Freetown...
...mutiny began at around 8 a.m. on Wednesday during a meeting between the officers and lower-ranking jawans (soldiers) at BDR headquarters at Pilkhana. They gathered to protest low wages, among other grievances, and the meeting grew increasingly heated as some of the rank-and-file soldiers accused their superiors of failing to bring their long-standing demands to the government. The jawans started firing at the guards and soon took full control of the headquarters. "Nearly 50 people have been killed in sporadic fighting," Mohammad Quamrul Islam, State Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs, said on Wednesday. But after...