AFP
Sun Jun 4, 2006 ROME - Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has found himself back in the spotlight at the start of legal considerations over whether to proceed with a charge that he bribed a British lawyer.
A court in Milan, led by judge Fabio Paparella. was scheduled to begin its hearings into whether there is enough evidence to charge and try the colourful 69-year-old with corruption over a 600,000-dollar (465,000-euro) payment he made to lawyer David Mills. Prosecutors in Milan formally lodged charges against the two men in March, saying that Berlusconi bribed Mills into giving favourable evidence in two 1997 corruption trials relating to his business dealings. |
By ADAM EWING
Associated Press Jun 3, 2006 STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Hundreds of people waving signs and skull-and-crossbones pirate flags demonstrated in Stockholm on Saturday against a police crackdown on a popular file-sharing Web site with millions of users worldwide.
Dozens of police officers conducted raids in 10 locations Wednesday, seizing servers and other computer equipment in their crackdown on The Pirate Bay site. But the site was back up Saturday, and spokesman Tobias Andersson said it would be "bigger and better than ever." |
By Lee Glendinning
Published: 05 June 2006 Police are hunting for a masked gunman who opened fire on a group of teenagers playing in a Manchester street, shooting a 15-year-old boy five times.
In what police believe was a targeted attack, the teenager, from Ardwick, was shot in the chest, back, groin, buttocks and thigh. He remains in a serious condition in hospital. |
AFP
Monday June 5, 2006 The cause of a military plane crash in eastern China that killed all 40 people on board remains a mystery, with the government releasing few details while conducting a top-level investigation.
In a short dispatch late on Sunday night, the official Xinhua news agency confirmed that 40 people died when the transport plane crashed in Anhui province on Saturday afternoon. Chinese President Hu Jintao expressed his condolences for the victims and described them as heroes, although no details were released about the specific type of plane, its mission or why it crashed. |
AFP
Monday June 5, 2006 Australian troops have fired teargas on rampaging gangs in the capital of East Timor, trying to keep a lid on another day of violence in one of the world's poorest nations.
Youths attacked each other with rocks and spanners, and used petrol bombs to set houses ablaze, in clashes near Dili's Comoro Bridge, an area surrounded by slums which has been a flashpoint during weeks of unrest in the city. Australian troops moved in with armoured personnel carriers and fired volleys of teargas as Black Hawk helicopters hovered in the air, causing the fighters to scatter before they regrouped later. |
The Guardian
A former president of Peru who took his country to the brink of bankruptcy looks set to make a remarkable comeback as he holds a strong lead against his rival in presidential elections.
Alan Garcia once faced corruption charges and his presidency from1985-1990 ended in disgrace, with inflation soaring to 7,500%, millions of people slipping into poverty and the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas gaining virtual control of rural Peru. But this weekend he gained more votes than Ollana Humala, a populist army lieutenant colonel endorsed by the leftwing Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez. |
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