Archive for February 2nd, 2010
International Crime
Anwar Ibrahim (pic) wants Malaysian PM Najib Razak subpoenaed to appear at his sodomy trial.
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“There are fears the ambitious World Islands project in Dubai will sink into the ocean after photographs from space appear to show the globe is washing away and neglected. Construction of the man-made cluster of islands began in 2003 about 4km off the coast of the wealthy United Arab Emirates city”
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An Iraqi Shiite woman carries a child in Baghdad
“Iraqi officials say a female suicide bomber mingling among Shiite pilgrims in northern Baghdad has detonated an explosives belt, killing at least 54 people. mA police official says the bomber struck while she was lining up with other women to be searched by female security guards at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the Shiite neighborhood of Shaab”
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The logo of a UBS bank in Geneva.
“Switzerland’s justice minister warned in an interview on Sunday that top bank UBS could collapse if sensitive talks with the United States over a high-profile tax fraud investigation fall through. ’The actions of UBS in the United States are very problematic. Not just because they are punishable but also because they threaten all of the bank’s activities,’ Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf told Le Matin Dimanche newspaper”
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“Ten Americans will appear in court today in Port-au-Prince after attempting to take 34 children out of Haiti, saying that they were trying to rescue them. The Baptist aid workers, from the Idaho-based New Life Children’s Refuge, were arrested as they attempted to leave the country for the Dominican Republic, about 45 miles from Port-au-Prince by road. They were reportedly taking the children, aged between three months and 12 years, to a safe house in the Dominican city of Cabarete”
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