A group of Egyptian jurists known as The Judges Club said in a statement Monday that, due to over 100 irregularities reported by monitoring judges at polling stations, it did not endorse the results of the parliamentary runoff elections. The statement pointed to "aggression and acts of thuggery by supporters of the National Democratic Party [...]

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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has dismissed as "nonsense" allegations by former Iraqi Prime Minister and current parliamentary candidate Iyad Allawi that human rights abuses by Iraqi Shiites are as bad as they were under Saddam Hussein's regime. In an interview with the BBC, Talabani said that no comparison can be made between recent reports of [...]

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China's former minister of land and natural resources, Tian Fengshan , was charged Monday with accepting bribes of nearly 5 million yuan, or $619,000. Tian has been in custody since 2004 when he was removed from office after the former director of a provincial environmental protection bureau, Wang Shenyi, exposed the corruption. Wang has also [...]

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