"Of the people, by the people, and for the people" (Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address.) Is there really any choice by the people of who govern us? Do people really think about the type of people th...
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Nineteen Bangladeshi politicians arrested under emergency powers were sent to jail for a month on Monday, a lawyer said.Security forces used the emergency powers on Sunday to detain the senior poli...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy's office has announced that he and his wife, Cecilia, plan to divorce. Some other government leaders and heads of state who separated or divorced while in power.___...
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Abuja (dpa) - Nigerian militants abducted the mother of a state
politician in the lawless Niger Delta Tuesday, police said, the
second such kidnapping in a month.
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The Supreme Court opened preliminary investigations into four more politicians for alleged ties to illegal right-wing militias after it was revealed they signed a 2001 letter of understanding with ...
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Bangladeshi security forces used emergency powers to detain 13 senior politicians and former government ministers early Sunday, according to news reports and family members of those detained.The po...
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A court on Wednesday condemned a former lawmaker to death for his role in a 1994 murder of a government official, the first time a member of India's parliament has received a capital sentence.Anand...
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The Political Class in America
Bangladesh jails 19 politicians
