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Czech leader clings on after close aide charged with graft
ReutersPRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas was clinging to office on Friday after prosecutors accused a close aide of being at the center of a corrupt web of political favors and secret surveillance. The leader of a junior partner in the...Tags: Criminals, Culture, Political Corruption, Bribery, Elections
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COLUMN - American exceptionalism, seen through the prism of American blunders: Bremmer
Reuters(Ian Bremmer is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own) By Ian Bremmer June 13 (Reuters) - The past weeks' revelations about PRISM, the National Security Agency's broad electronic surveillance program, follow a grand American tradition of...Tags: Corporate Crime, Human Rights, Religion and Belief, U.S. Congress, PRISM (surveillance program)
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Czech cabinet in crisis after police sweep government offices
ReutersPRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic's main opposition party demanded on Thursday that Prime Minister Petr Necas step down after police raided government offices, seized documents and detained a woman who for years has been one of his closest aides....Tags: Prosecution, Corporate Crime, Political Corruption, Prague (Czech Republic), Elections
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NSA leak prompts questions over U.S. reliance on contractors
ReutersWASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government may have to reconsider how much it relies on outside defense contractors who are given top security clearances after an NSA contractor exposed top-secret phone and internet surveillance programs. Edward...Tags: U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Corporate Crime, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Fort Meade (military base), The Washington Post
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One man's defiance inspires a region to stand up to the Taliban
ZANGABAD, Afghanistan — The uprising began in early February with a Taliban commander's knock on the door of Hajji Abdul Wudood. The militant leader demanded that Wudood, a stout, weathered man of 60, surrender one of his eight sons, who was...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Corporate Crime, U.S. Military, Armed Forces, Taliban
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Egypt drags its feet in privatisation tussle
Reuters* Court rulings to renationalise plunge companies into legal limbo * Officials say implementing rulings is complicated * Critics say government stalling on implementation * Dozens more rulings pending By Maggie Fick CAIRO, May 29 (Reuters) - A thorny...Tags: International Organizations, Activism, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, Trials, Elections
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Report: Department of Justice closing books on Daimler bribery investigation
Autoblog.comFiled under: Government/Legal An investigation by the US Department of Justice into charges that Daimler bribed officials in 22 countries with "tens of millions of dollars" to win contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars from 1998 to 2008 has... -
COLUMN - Prosperity without power
Reuters(David Rohde is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By David Rohde May 22 (Reuters) - In Moscow, they are "non-Soviet Russians." In New Delhi, they are a "political Goliath" that may soon awake. In Beijing and São Paolo, they are lawyers...Tags: Entertainment Events, Pakistan, Political Corruption, Moscow (Russia), Elections
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High-ranking Chinese official caught in anti-corruption net
SHANGHAI — China is investigating a senior economic policymaker for alleged "serious disciplinary violations" — the highest-ranking central government official to be targeted in the new Chinese president's anti-corruption crackdown. The...Tags: Corporate Crime, Political Corruption, Politics, China, Elections
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White Memorial Medical Center in L.A. settles kickback allegations
White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles has agreed to pay $14.1 million to settle allegations that it paid illegal kickbacks to physicians to get their patient referrals. The settlement announced Friday by the U.S. Justice Department stemmed from a...
Tags: Family, Prosecution, U.S. Department of Justice, Corporate Crime, Medical Procedures and Tests
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