The defense team of Viktor Bout, a Russian national convicted in early November of conspiring to kill Americans, has requested a retrial on the grounds that members of the jury may have been influenced by the media.
A legal vacuum, dearth of central oversight, and lack of political will have contributed to the perception that Kosovo’s dominant political parties have become the country’s most corrupt institutions, according the Kosova Democratic Institute (KDI) and Transparency International Kosova (TIK).
The citizen of the Republic of Guinea A. K. came to a prior agreement with an R. from the United Republic of Tanzania on the illegal sale of airplane tickets, receiving cash money from the people eager to obtain cheaper tickets, swindling the received money and paying for the tickets by making payments from the bank accounts of other people by using false bank cards.
Fortune Resources a company preparing to operate the Hrazdan iron mine, is facing fierce resistance from local environmental activist.
In sum, the proposal of the mandate for Armenia by US President Woodrow Wilson, and the subsequent discussion and voting on it in the US Senate, regardless of the outcome of the voting, served to record by the US Senate the fact of the absence of Turkish sovereignty over the territory in question.