Bo Xilai blames wife on third day of trial |
Prosecution will continue to try and prove charges of embezzlement and abuse of power against ousted Chinese politician.
Last Modified: 24 Aug 2013 09:11
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The third day of the trial of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai is now under way.
Day three of the proceedings on Saturday will see the prosecution continue to try and prove the charges of embezzlement and abuse of power against Bo.
Day three of the proceedings on Saturday will see the prosecution continue to try and prove the charges of embezzlement and abuse of power against Bo.
Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett, reporting from outside the court in Jinan, said the third day was expected to concentrate more on the embezzlement charges, in which Bo is accused of taking $800,000 from a government building project.
Bo accepted that the funds had been able to be embezzled as he had not been alert enough.
Steinbrück gets unintended Stasi boost
East German secret police kept file on Merkel challenger, apparently intending to recruit him as informer
Derek Scally
German Social Democrat (SPD) Peer Steinbrück’s struggling campaign to unseat Angela Merkel as chancellor next month has been given a boost from an unlikely quarter: the Stasi.
The vanished East German secret police kept a file on Steinbrück during his visits to East Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, apparently intending to approach him to work as an informer.
The Welt newspaper group got wind of the file and splashed details across its weekend edition and again on Thursday under the headline: “How close was Steinbrück to the Stasi?”
The answer: not very close at all. The 50-page file, which Steinbrück received on August 9th and published on his website yesterday, contained reports filed on him by a cousin’s husband after several visits.
LATIN AMERICA
FARC rebels declare pause in peace talks
Colombia's FARC guerrilla army have walked away from peace talks with the government. The Marxist rebels say they need time to review a government plan to put any peace deal to a popular vote.
The decision to suspend peace talks that began nine months ago in Havana, Cuba was temporary, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) emphasized late on Friday.
"The FARC has decided to take a pause from the discussion table to focus exclusively on analyzing the reach of the government proposal, without detriment to the internal consultation it must perform as an organization," the rebels said in a statement.
Siege Mentality: Experts Pan IPCC's Climate Report Strategy
A draft of the next UN review of scientific studies on climate change has been leaked, and it's not the first time. Now, a growing number of experts are criticizing the the organization's secretetive approach to the reports.
The climate report published by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) every two years is supposed to be secret. But once again, another draft of the document, which summarizes the state of climate research, has been leaked to the media, and experts are beginning to question the organization's information strategy.
Extremists slit throats of 44 villagers in Nigeria
An official says suspected Islamist extremists killed at least 44 villagers in continuing attacks in an Islamic uprising in northeast Nigeria.
The official of the National Emergency Management Agency says the attackers hit Dumba village in Borno state before dawn Tuesday and slit their victims' throats - a new strategy since gunfire attracts security forces.
He said the attackers gouged out the eyes of some victims who survived. The official spoke Saturday on condition of anonymity because he is not allowed to give information to reporters.
Dumba is near the fishing village of Baga where security forces in March gunned down 187 civilians in retaliation for an attack by extremists.
It is difficult to get information from the area under a state of emergency, with cellphone and Internet service cut.
New Fukushima leak puts spotlight on plant operator - again
Tepco, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant operator has a complex battle ahead as it navigates global concern about making the plant and surrounding area safe.
More than two years after it suffered a triple meltdown, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is once more setting off alarm bells around the world as calls mount at home for the cleanup to be taken out of the hands of Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco).
News this week that about 300 tons of highly toxic water had leaked from a storage tank at the plant have provoked anger at home and prompted calls for an international task force to come to the aid of the embattled Japanese utility.
The latest leak, involving one of more than 1,000 tanks that store water after it has been used to cool the tsunami-wrecked reactors, underlined the dangers the plant still poses to the environment and Fukushima residents, and the sheer scale and complexity of the operation to make it safe.
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