Gary Gensler, head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is the leading contender to oversee the instruments that played a key role in the financial crisis.
Debate on the measure offered a preview of Congressional consideration later this year of the Obama administration’s request for money to pay for the Afghan war.
A court approved the arrest of 10 suspects in the November 2009 bombing of the Nevsky Express passenger train, which derailed while en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg and killed 28 people.
Authorities arrested 25 men in Sicily, New York, North Carolina and Florida on charges of taking part in a range of criminal activities under the umbrellas of the Gambino and Santa Maria di Gesù crime families.
Mao Hengfeng has been ordered to serve one and a half years of “re-education through labor” for shouting slogans about human rights outside a Beijing courthouse, according to a rights advocacy group.
A new law would protect Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his cabinet from the results of trials that are currently under way, on the grounds that the trials would impede their ability to govern.
During the three days of sessions (14th-16th April 2010), the city of Katowice will became a place for exchanging views and experiences as well as of debate for nearly 400 speakers, great personages of politics, business, science and economics. The
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