Guests of the Chilean president are free to take ceremonial pens, a spokesman says, although you wouldn’t know it from Czech President Vaclav Klaus’ behavior in a video that has become a YouTube sensation. As President Sebastian Pinera speaks, Klaus craftily removes the pen from its case, moves his hands…
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Continue reading …The bodies of a New York woman and her three young children were pulled from the Hudson River last night after what police believe was a murder-suicide sparked by a domestic dispute. The mother drove her minivan and the children—two boys, ages 5 and 2, and an 11-month-old girl—…
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Continue reading …This week marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. But there's another “civil war” of sorts on the horizon, this one between the ultra-liberal wing of the Democratic Party, which has thus far steadfastly refused to accept cuts to entitlement programs in the name of fiscal solvency, and the party's more moderate members (which include, amazingly, President Barack Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi) who recognize that such cuts are all-but-inevitable. But true to form, most of the media, fond of labeling GOP infighting a civil war, has yet to brand Democrats' budget feud with that label. This despite the increasing uneasiness of liberal legislators and organizations who are worried the president has already caved to conservatives on the budget battle. In fact, some groups have gone beyond simply complaining about the apparent embrace of the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction plan by the president (and key congressional Democrats, including Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Chris Van Hollen). The Progressive Chance Campaign Committee (PCCC) sent an email to its members on Tuesday encouraging them to withhold financial contributions to Obama's reelection campaign if his eventual plan includes any cuts to Medicare or Medicaid,
Continue reading …President and Michelle Obama have been lined up to appear on one of the final episodes of the Oprah Winfrey Show . The Obamas—who last made a joint appearance on Oprah in 2006—will tape an episode of the chat show later this month, and the show will be aired…
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Federal Protective Service requests a German Burg Crono 2.0 tub costing more than Russian average annual wage It’s sweaty work being a bodyguard to Dmitry Medvedev – or so it seems after members of the president’s security detail ordered a £6,500 luxury bathtub. In Russia’s latest scandal over free-spending bureaucrats, the Federal Protective Service (FSO) asked for a German Burg Crono 2.0 mineral-cast tub costing more than the country’s average annual wage. The request could embarrass Medvedev, who has tried to forge an image as a crusader against corruption. Under Russian law, all government procurement orders must be published online. Medvedev tightened the system this year, but there have been a series of outrages over officials’ excessive tastes. This month clerks in Irkutsk ordered 25 fur hats at a cost of 500,000 roubles (£10,000). A spokesman said the “classic chocolate-brown sable ushankas for men” were intended for a “gift fund” rather than to warm the ears of chilly bigwigs in the Siberian town. Things were no better in the impoverished southern republic of Dagestan, where the finance minister, Abdusamad Gamidov, hastily retreated from an order for a £180,000 Audi saloon in February. He had second thoughts after the anti-graft campaigner Alexei Navalny published a blogpost on the subject. “I’m sure that most world presidents get around in more modest automobiles,” Navalny said. In 2009 the federal interior ministry offered to pay up to £87,000 for a hand-carved cherrywood bed with a headboard covered in 24-carat gold. The purchase caused an outcry but did not deter the finance ministry from ordering £50,000 of gilded furniture last summer. (It later said it would spend only half that amount.) Many of the prices named on the zakupki.gov.ru website are thought to be inflated to allow for kickbacks. Medvedev said in October that Russia lost £20bn in bribes every year. A spokesman for the FSO denied the 336,000-rouble bathtub was overpriced, telling a Russian newspaper it was “not some kind of short, sit-up job, like people buy for khrushchevki [Soviet-era apartment blocks].” Dmitry Medvedev Russia Tom Parfitt guardian.co.uk
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Angelino Alfano is steering through parliament a bill that could halt Silvio Berlusconi’s trial for alleged bribery Silvio Berlusconi has named as his likely successor a Sicilian minister who is poised to steer through parliament a bill that could halt the trial in which Italy’s prime minister is accused of bribing his British lawyer, David Mills. Speaking to foreign correspondents at a dinner on Tuesday night, the 74-year-old Berlusconi said he would not stand at the next general election in 2013 and indicated that Angelino Alfano, his 40-year-old justice minister, was the person to whom he intended entrusting his party. The dinner, attended by the Guardian, was held on an off-the-record basis. But a detailed account of the proceedings was leaked to the Italian news agency Ansa and published early on Wednesday. Additional reports appeared subsequently in the Italian media. According to the body that oversees the judiciary, some 14,000 trials would be halted by the new measure, which was being debated on Wednesday amid raucous scenes in the chamber of deputies, the lower house of parliament. The bill would apply a guillotine to legal proceedings in a court system notorious for delays. Critics maintain it is the latest of several measures expressly crafted to enable the prime minister escape justice. But Berlusconi and his followers have defended it as a contribution to speeding up court proceedings. The government had little difficulty in winning votes on amendments, suggesting the bill will be approved when the final division is held later. As a result, it is unlikely any action will now be taken against builders, officials and property developers suspected of responsibility for deaths in the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake. More than 300 people died, many of them in buildings allegedly constructed with sub-standard materials. An amendment to exclude the L’Aquila investigation from the terms of the bill was voted down by the government majority. Outside, relatives of the victims hurled insults at Berlusconi’s followers as they came in and out of the parliament building. Silvio Berlusconi Italy John Hooper guardian.co.uk
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