All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

CNN:
A former vice president of the Blackwater private security company said he was "unaware of any plot or guidance for Blackwater to bribe Iraqi officials" as rage erupted over the killings of 17 civilians by the company's security guards more than two years ago. (read the article)

The NY Times:
Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials. (read the article)

The Guardian: Arab doctors are to investigate the death of the former Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat, re-opening a four-year-old case which is still the subject of suspicion, conspiracy theories and political accusations. (Read the article)

AP:
Soldiers assassinated the president of Guinea-Bissau in his palace Monday hours after a bomb blast killed his rival, but the military insisted
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Sudan Tribune:
The Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) will soon release a decision in which they agree to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir, Sudan Tribune has learnt.
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Xinhua:
Germany is to extradite Rose Kabuye, a Rwandan presidential aide, to France after a local court in Frankfurt approved the extradition request on Wednesday.
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BBC News:
Court proceedings were briefly halted when Mr Chen complained of an injury
Taiwan's ex-President Chen Shui-bian, who faces corruption allegations, has been formally taken into custody.
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Afrique en Ligne:
Mauritanian police Thursday arrested the vice-president of the Khattou Mint Boukhary Foundation (FKB), Mohamed Ould Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, who is also the son of the former Mauritanian President overthrown 6 August by the ruling junta, a highly-reliable source told PANA here. (read the article

AP:
The French Cabinet's spokesman says "swindlers" have broken into the personal bank account of President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Asarq al Awsat:
Syria's government is confirming the assassination last week of a senior military officer believed to have been a close aide to President Bashar Assad.
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