Costa Rican Ex-President Convicted in Historic Trial

Costa Rican Ex-president Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier (1990-1994), was found guilty of peculation in what was known as the Caja-Fischel case, which culminated in the largest corruption scandal and the first...

Former Serbian leader acquitted of war crime charges

Milan Milutinovic, the President of Serbia from 1998 to 2002, has been cleared of all charges laid against him by the UN International Criminal Tribunal. At the end of his presidential term in 2002, Milutinovic...

Former Taiwan leader Chen back in jail on corruption charge

Former Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian was back in prison on corruption charges following a verdict by the Taipei District Court. The court delivered its verdict Tuesday morning after a 12-hour of hearing. Mr. Chen...

Crunch talks for Pakistan leaders

"Senior politicians are due to meet in Pakistan to try to resolve disputes which threaten to break up the coalition government. Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said his party will pull out, unless judges sacked by ex-President Pervez Musharraf are immediately...

Want to Get Rich? Befriend Bill Clinton

Hundreds of books are about how to make money quickly. These books don't know the real secret though. Do you know what that secret is? No? Well, today only, I will tell you how to accumulate more wealth than you...

Health of Indonesia`s Suharto improving : doctors

"The ex-president has been in hospital for 17 days with severe heart, lung and kidney problems and suffered multiple organ failure before showing solid signs of recovery in recent days. "The general condition shows improvement, his level of consciousness is good, Mardjo...

Bill Clinton complains about Obama's attacks

"Bill Clinton complains about Obama's attacks (CNN) -- Former President Clinton on Monday complained about attacks from Sen. Barack Obama on Sen. Hillary Clinton in the latest in the back-and-forth between the two rival Democratic presidential...

Soeharto family rejects corruption case offer: lawyer

"The family of ailing Indonesian ex-president Soeharto will not pay out any money to settle a civil corruption suit against the 86-year-old, one of their lawyers said on Monday.The government has been pursuing the civil case since a criminal corruption trial against Soeharto...

Indonesia will not drop civil suit against ailing Suharto: attorney

""Suharto's case cannot be dropped as this is under the authority of the attorney general and such a move can only be taken in the public interest," attorney general Hendarman Supanji was quoted by AFP as telling reporters.He noted that Suharto's long-running criminal case...

Soeharto foundation`s scholarship recipients safe: prosecutor

""What is on trial here is the defendants using the funds that were gathered... for means other than scholarship granting," he said, adding that people had no reason to fear their scholarships would be at...

Mexican ex-president shows off wealth

Vincente Fox, Mexico's former President, has provoked criticism after posing in a Hello-style magazine with his wife in the decadent surroundings of his home."Show of wealth snares ex-president Fox · Outrage...

Fomer President Wahid prepared to return

""I am ready (to run) if I am given the order by the elders. They number five, but I will not mention names," Wahid, who is better known as Gus Dur, was quoted by AFP as saying on the NU website. He said that one...

Indonesian court postpones trial for Soeharto`s son

"Hutomo Mandala Putra Soeharto, known as Tommy, was president of Goro Batara Sakti (GBS), which swapped land with the national logistics agency Bulog in the 1990s. Another GBS executive Ricardo Gelael is also...

Iran's ex-president denies touching women, rebuffs video as fiction

 The former Iranian president, Khatami, is now denying that the incident ever took place even in the face of a video documenting what appears to be him shaking hands with a woman.Read the original article...

Argentine ex-president arrested

"Police in Spain have arrested Argentine ex-President Isabel Peron over the 1976 disappearance of a leftist activist. An Argentine judge on Thursday issued a warrant for her arrest, in connection with a right-wing paramilitary group active during her time in office. The...

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