By Rana Jawad in Tripolit, BBC News, Nov. 23, 2011
The International Criminal court has accepted that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi will be tried on Libyan soil and not at The Hague.
As it stands, the ICC's involvement in the procedure of Saif al-Islam's trial appears as though it will be minimal, and it will have a consulting role. [....]
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs, Press Release, Nov. 21, 2011
WASHINGTON – Today President Barack Obama granted pardons to five individuals and commutation of sentence to one individual:....
(Pardons: 3 marijuana cases; one transporting and concealing stolen property across states; one conducting illegal gambling business. Commutation: distribution of cocaine.)
By Keith Bradsher, New York Times, Nov. 21/22, 2011
HONG KONG — Chinese solar panel makers plan to shift some of their production to South Korea, Taiwan and the United States in hopes of defusing a trade case pending against them in Washington, according to industry executives.
But at the same time, the Chinese industry is considering retaliating by filing a trade case of its own with China’s Commerce Ministry.
Alastair Cooke was The Guardian's "America correspondent" at the time of the assassination. It's amazing to me how much he knew and understood about LBJ's politics at the time, and how he could express it in such a short piece.
By Ed Pilkington in New York, Guardian.co.uk, Nov. 22, 2010
The defence team for Wikileaks suspect Bradley Manning is planning to call 50 witnesses at next month's military hearing, promising to turn the proceedings into a detailed legal battle over the merits of the prosecution case against him.
The review writer is the author of five books including, most recently, I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay. In 2008 he received the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
By Tracy Clark-Flory and Thomas Rogers, Salon.com, Nov. 18, 2011
The gay male and straight female in charge of "Salon's Sexiest Men of 2011" feature discuss changing standards of male sexiness in certain subcultures, in a somewhat but not totally unserious manner, along with some of their own preferences.
Tens of thousands of Islamist and secular protesters have gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square and in Alexandria for a mass rally to press the ruling military to hand power to a civilian government.
Friday's demonstration, dubbed as "Friday of One Demand" was called over a document floated by the government which declares the military the guardian of "constitutional legitimacy", suggesting the armed forces could have the final word on major policies.
By M K Bhadrakumar, Asia Times Online, Nov. 15, 2011
United States President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev were on first name terms at the weekend's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Honolulu, even though nothing particularly is happening between their countries to justify the bonhomie. Chinese President Hu Jintao, though, remains very much "Mr President", indicative of the strains between Washington and Beijing.
By John W. Miller, Wall Street Journal, November 16, 2011
MANDURAH, Australia—One of the fastest-growing costs in the global mining industry are workers like James Dinnison: the 25-year-old high-school dropout from Western Australia makes $200,000 a year running drills in underground mines to extract gold and other minerals.....
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 14, 2011
Some chafe at life under Vladimir Putin's rule, but for many others, economic limitations are the prime motivator. Experts say the numbers have reached demographically dangerous levels.
