Fujimori gets six years for setting up burglary
LIMA (Reuters):Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was sentenced to six years in prison on Tuesday for sending an aide to steal documents from his spy chief, a ruling that could harm his defence in a separate murder trial.Supreme Court judge...
Tajikistan cracks down on witchcraft
DUSHANBE (Reuters): Tajikistan is launching a crackdown on witchcraft and fortune-telling as part of an anti-poverty drive after earlier banning lavish weddings and expensive funerals. Occultism is on the rise in Muslim Tajikistan. It is the poorest nation in ex-Soviet..
New measures to trim French bureaucracy
LIMA (Reuters): Without deep reform France will be unable to boost growth and fund its social security safety net, President Nicolas Sarkozy said yesterday when he unveiled measures to trim French bureaucracy. Sarkozy told senior ministers and officials the almost 100 measures...
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