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But in early September, Brazil’s electoral court ruled that Lula’s previous conviction on (dubious) corruption charges disqualified him from running.
Israel after GoldstoneTOLEDO – Israel’s predicament with the Judge Richard Goldstone’s report accusing it of war crimes in Gaza, and the report’s subsequent endorsement by the United Nations Human Rights Council, brings to mind the reaction of United States Vice-President Spiro Agnew to his indictment on corruption charges in 1973: “The bastards, they changed the rules, but they never told me.”
The Struggle for Mastery in IranTEHERAN: The trial of thirteen Iranian Jews on espionage charges is but the latest sign of a conservative backlash against Iran's reform movement, headed by President Mohammed Khatami.
The key reason is that several recent “reforms” announced by German Chancellor Angela Merkel – raising the value-added tax, increasing user charges for healthcare, and taxing interest payments as a part of so-called corporate tax reform – promise to reduce German economic growth, perhaps significantly, in 2007.
The UPA’s critics long claimed that unsustainably low, state-dictated passenger fares and freight charges for rail services – which could not cover the cost of maintenance to ensure the safety of trains and tracks, much less enable expansion and improvement of service – reflected the government’s inability to make tough decisions.
The Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has now been arrested on charges of sexual assault, and the company he founded, the Weinstein Company, has collapsed.
But such charges are partisan political rhetoric, with little basis in rigorous policy analysis.
America’s Weak Case Against ChinaNEW HAVEN – On the surface, United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer appears to have made an ironclad case against China in the so-called Section 301 report issued on March 22.Laid out in a detailed 182-page document (which, with 1,139 footnotes and five appendices, would make any legal team blush with pride), the USTR’s indictment of China on charges of unfair trading practices regarding technology transfer, intellectual property, and innovation seems both urgent and compelling.
In fact, the report devotes more than twice as many pages to charges concerning China’s supposed external technology theft via such acquisitions – which are framed as a blatant grab for America’s most precious assets – as it does to internal transfers through JVs and alleged unfair licensing practices.
Putin is immune from any kind of prosecution, and he refuses to extradite Lugovoi and Kovtun to face murder charges.
Contrary to recent charges, Turkey’s foreign policymakers are not seeking to revive the Ottoman Empire.
With 11 more Turkish journalists also facing charges, the total number could soon double the records of Iran and China, each of which reportedly held 34 journalists in prison in December 2010.
Worse still, they have declined even to inform those brought before courts – sometimes in secret – or their attorneys of the charges they face.
Evidence must be provided, and the accused must be presented with the charges they face and the opportunity to defend themselves.
At the heart of the impeachment charges against Rousseff is an accusation that she violated Brazil’s Fiscal Responsibility Law.
Charges against two other officials, former Police Commissioner Mohammed Hussein Ali and Minister for Industrialization Henry Kosgey, were dropped, with the remaining four to face trial beginning in April 2013.
On the contrary, what is rotten in Ukraine is not its constitution, but its president, who is mired in charges of corruption and orchestrating the murder of journalists, and who is shunned by other world leaders.
The charges – including hubris, neglect of social goals beyond incomes, excessive attention to formal techniques, and failure to predict major economic developments such as financial crises – have usually come from outsiders, or from a heterodox fringe.
It is no accident that in all these nations opposition parties were able to ride corruption charges against the parties in power to impressive victories.
The US extradited a low-level Chinese official to face corruption charges.
Michael Vick, a star quarterback in the US National Football League, served time in prison for running a vicious dog-fighting operation, and arrests of players on charges ranging from illegal possession of drugs and weapons to domestic battery have been a regular occurrence.
Since then, there has been some progress – notably, the politically popular elimination of roaming charges by mobile phone providers.
For one thing, charges of labor-rights violations can be brought only by governments, not by trade unions or human rights organizations.
Syria’s G-Zero FateNEW YORK – The G-20 has concluded its meetings and dinner discussions of what to do about charges that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has used poison gas to kill more than 1,400 of his own people.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned of the prospect of war-crimes charges against Assad.
Indeed, shale-gas extraction is so economically favorable that even American gas exported to Europe would cost 30% less than what the Russian energy giant Gazprom currently charges.
Second, Internet service providers, which are in the best position to manage the security of individual users’ machines, need to get more involved – again with a system that understands the costs of poor security and charges those costs back to the people responsible.
Villepin, a former Prime Minister for Chirac, awaits judgment on charges of having organized a smear campaign against his rival for the presidency, Nicolas Sarkozy.
Many Italians remember that Ben Ali – whose rise to the presidency was directly supported by Italy – provided refuge to Bettino Craxi, the former Italian prime minister (and Berlusconi’s political mentor), who fled the country in 1994 to avoid conviction on corruption charges.
Even countries seemingly committed to competitive markets don’t like being beaten at their own game, and often trump up charges of “unfair competition.”
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