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Millions in CIA "ghost money" paid to Afghan president's office -NYT
ReutersApril 29 (Reuters) - Tens of millions of U.S. dollars in cash were delivered by the CIA in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags to the office of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai for more than a decade, according to the New York Times, citing...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Afghanistan, Iran, Politics, Hamid Karzai
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Outraged by paper's opinion
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board wrote a hostile and destructive April 25 editorial, "Outrage justified in corruption case." This editorial expressed outrage that the criminal justice system did not destroy Diana Wasserman-Rubin. The editorial entirely...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, Tamarac, Broward County
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Court orders detention of Bosnia federation head in graft probe
ReutersSARAJEVO, April 28 (Reuters) - A Bosnian court on Sunday ordered that the president of the country's autonomous Muslim-Croat federation and four other officials be detained for a month after prosecutors said they took bribes to arrange pardons for...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Police Arrests, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Prosecution
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FEATURE-Kuwait making tentative steps to connect with youth
Reuters* Ministers reach out to bloggers after protests * Young officials want economic reform in oil-rich Kuwait * Bureaucracy, corruption, politics stall development By Sylvia Westall KUWAIT, May 8 (Reuters) - On a January afternoon in Kuwait City, a group...Tags: Elections, Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy, Petroleum Industry, United Kingdom
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Top court says Indian government meddled in graft investigation
Reuters(.) By Annie Banerji and Frank Jack Daniel NEW DELHI, May 8 (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court accused the government on Wednesday of interfering in a police investigation into the allocation of commercial coalfields, in a damning indictment of political...Tags: Elections, Manmohan Singh, Regional Elections, India, New Delhi (India)
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A lifeline for the poor
Critics of a federal program that provides free cellphones to thousands of Maryland residents who can't afford regular commercial service are right that some recipients who don't qualify for the benefit are taking advantage of the system. But there's no...Tags: Elections, George W. Bush, Personal Income, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama
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Chevron to appeal imprisonment of Indonesia contractor
ReutersBy Fergus Jensen JAKARTA, May 8 (Reuters) - Oil firm Chevron on Wednesday criticised the sentencing of one of its Indonesian subcontractors to five years in jail for breaching environmental laws, citing irregularities in the investigation and trial,...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia, Energy Resources, Jakarta (Indonesia)
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CORRECTED-Chevron criticises imprisonment of Indonesian contractor
Reuters(Corrects headline and first paragraph saying Chevron itself would appeal) By Fergus Jensen JAKARTA, May 8 (Reuters) - Oil firm Chevron on Wednesday criticised the sentencing of one of its Indonesian subcontractors to five years in jail for breaching...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Energy Resources, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia, Jakarta (Indonesia)
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Sea cucumbers, abalone off the menu in China frugality drive
ReutersBy Kevin Yao and Megha Rajagopalan BEIJING, May 8 (Reuters) - President Xi Jinping's crackdown on Chinese government extravagance has emptied top-end restaurants and dented the sale of expensive food and drink, putting downward pressure on the world's...Tags: Event Planning, Beijing (China), Xi Jinping, Cucumbers, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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South Sudan set to pay Sudan $2 billion in oil fees by 2015: IMF
ReutersKHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan looked set to receive $2 billion in oil pipeline fees from South Sudan by the end of 2014 and should prioritize overhauling its agricultural sector with the money, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday. Sudan...Tags: Public Finance, International Organizations, International Monetary Fund, Government, National Government
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COLUMN - Russia's reckoning
Reuters(John Lloyd is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By John Lloyd May 7 (Reuters) - Russia is now in a hard, even dangerous, place. A series of shocks are coming, and it is not well placed to weather them. It has, to be sure, little debt:...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Government Ministers, Energy Resources, Media Industry, Radio Industry
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Harris: SEC investigating allegations of bribery by onetime Chinese unit
Investigators with the Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Department of Justice are looking into possible bribery activity by a Chinese health-care technology operation formerly owned by Harris Corp., the Melbourne-based company said in a...
Tags: Fines, Bribery, U.S. Department of Justice, Corporate Crime, Harris Corp.
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