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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> IMF chief Christine Lagarde avoided immediate charges but was named an “assisted witness” after French prosecutors questioned her for two days over a state payout to a disgraced tycoon when she was finance minister. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> More than 60,000 people packed into Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta on a recent Saturday night to see the national soccer team play. Another 100 million tuned in to television to watch the match, underlining the appeal of soccer in Indonesia where attendance rivals the top English and German soccer leagues. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Prosecutors will grill IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Thursday as they investigate whether she should be charged in connection with a state payout to a disgraced tycoon during her time as French finance minister. Lagarde has downplayed the investigation, but the stakes of the probe are huge for both her and the International Monetary Fund. Criminal charges against Lagarde, 57, would mark the second scandal in a row for an IMF chief, after her predecessor Dominique Strauss-Kahn, also from France, resigned in disgrace over an alleged assault on a New York hotel maid. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday he would take up the ban of his close aide from the June 14 presidential election with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian media reported. Iran’s electoral watchdog on Tuesday disqualified Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, Ahmadinejad’s former chief of staff, and moderate ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from running in the vote, eliminating two powerful and potentially disruptive candidates and leaving the field dominated by hardliners loyal to Khamenei. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Iran’s June 14 presidential election steps up a gear on Tuesday when the Guardians Council releases the approved list of candidates who have passed muster under the vetting process. The unelected council, controlled by religious conservatives appointed by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, must ensure that all candidates meet certain conditions before being allowed to stand. These conditions include being faithful to the principles of the Islamic republic and its official religion. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> T-shirts bearing images of President Barack Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader, hang side by side in the shops just off busy Kabar Aye Pagoda Road in Yangon. It is a reminder of the history made in November when Obama became the first sitting United States president to set foot in Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma. A return trip to this former pariah state does not seem to be on Obama’s immediate itinerary. But US firms are on their way. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> France became the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage on Saturday after President Francois Hollande signed it into law following months of bitter political debate. Hollande acted a day after the Constitutional Council threw out a legal challenge by the right-wing opposition, which had been the last obstacle to passing the bill into law. The legislation also legalises gay adoption. French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira, who steered the legislation through parliament, has said the first gay marriages could be celebrated as early as June. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Former Philippine president Joseph Estrada was proclaimed the new mayor of Manila yesterday, his first elected post since he was ousted in an anti-corruption revolt 12 years ago. Estrada, 76, capitalised on his movie-star popularity, particularly among the poor, and promised to reverse urban decay of the historic city along Manila Bay. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former President Joseph Estrada was declared the winner of Manila’s mayoral election on Tuesday, his first ballot victory since his ouster in a 2001 anti-corruption revolt and a possible prelude to a return to higher office. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada was leading in the vote-count for mayor of Manila on Tuesday in what could be his first elected post since he was ousted in a 2001 revolt on corruption charges. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Iran’s presidential race has entered a new, unpredictable phase after two game-changing politicians, both out of favour with the country’s leaders, signed up as candidates in the final minutes of a five-day registration period. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BEIJING (AP) — The poisoning of a college student 18 years ago recently re-emerged as a hot topic in China, but censors soon squelched the politically sensitive online discussions over whether the culprit may have eluded punishment because of Communist Party connections. Chinese looking for justice found another way to keep the issue alive. They took it to Washington. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s former president Rafsanjani has registered candidacy for June presidential election. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Iran’s foreign minister said he believed the detention of a former diplomat linked to the country’s reformists was caused by a “misunderstanding” and defended the man’s record, Iranian media reported. Bagher Asadi, who was a senior diplomat at Iran’s UN mission in New York before becoming a director at the secretariat of the D8 group of developing nations in Istanbul, was arrested mid-March in the Iranian capital, sources told Reuters this week. It was not clear where Asadi was being held, who arrested the 61-year-old diplomat or on what grounds, the sources said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> While Chiu Yi-ying, of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party, could face a lawsuit, analysts said her action could best explain why Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou has been able to avoid becoming a lame duck, despite mounting criticism of his administration. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Accustomed to the role of target, President Barack Obama exacted a light-hearted revenge on his tormentors in the news media and Congress with a joke-filled riff at the capital’s premier star-studded gala. Obama took smiling aim at Rush Limbaugh, Michele Bachmann, Marco Rubio, Sheldon Adelson, Rand Paul, former president George W. Bush and Fox News, as he addressed the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents Association. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Horacio Cartes, a Paraguayan tobacco magnate, faced various challenges during his presidential bid. He was pressed to explain why anti-narcotics police officers seized a plane carrying cocaine and marijuana on his ranch in 2000; why he went to prison in 1989 on currency fraud charges; and why he had never voted in past general elections. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Ilana Glazer, on April 17th, 2013 Luisa Estella Morales, the Supreme Tribunal chief in Venezuela, has issued arrest warrants against Henrique Cabriles, the loser of Sunday's presidential election, and members of Voluntad Popular for instigation to commit crimes.
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By , on April 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A group of Democratic and Republican US senators on Tuesday unveiled long-awaited landmark legislation to remove the threat of deportation for millions of illegal immigrants and give them an opportunity to eventually become US citizens. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The flamboyant “super minister” son of former Senegalese leader Abdoulaye Wade was detained in Dakar as police investigated his assets, valued at more than US$1 billion, his lawyer said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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IMF chief Christine Lagarde escapes charges for now
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