Morocco loses a beacon of freedom The Guardian | About six or seven years ago, I began returning regularly to my birthplace of Morocco, a country I left as a child in 1989. The Morocco of my childhood was an isolated, quasi-feudal dictatorship in which the regime of the late King Hassan II brooked no dissent. During the 1990s, in the face of glo...
Guinea leader Camara breaks exile silence BBC News By Caspar Leighton | BBC West Africa correspondent | The sidelined military leader of Guinea has spoken in public for the first time since he was seriously wounded by an assassination attempt in December. | Capt Moussa Dadis Camara is in the Burkina Faso capital, Ougadougou, where he backed a plan t...
Jamaican cleric says he was unfairly demonized The News & Observer | KINGSTON, Jamaica -- A radical Muslim cleric who served time in a British jail for inciting murder and was recently deported to his native Jamaica said Thursday that he has been unfairly demonized by the media. | Abdullah el-Faisal, who was sent ho...
Haiti - The Broken Wing Medialens | It matters that the media have lavished so much attention on the aftermath of Haiti's January 12 earthquake. The coverage has helped inspire people around the world to give of their time, energy and money in responding to the disaster. On the Democ...
Algeria: Moroccans convicted on terror charge Independent online | A lawyer for two Moroccan nationals on trial in Algeria says they have been convicted on terror-related charges. | Attorney Leila Hadjersi says Echebba Abdelghani and Legrine Salaheddine were sentenced on Sunday to five years in prison and each han...
Morocco loses a beacon of freedom The Guardian | About six or seven years ago, I began returning regularly to my birthplace of Morocco, a country I left as a child in 1989. The Morocco of my childhood was an isolated, quasi-feudal dictatorship in which the regime of the late King Hassan II brooke...
Fla. ex-attorney pleads guilty in $1.2B Ponzi scam The Examiner Comments FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Map, News) - A disbarred attorney who courted politicians and star athletes and led a flamboyant lifestyle even by flashy South Florida standards pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges that he ran a $1.2 billion P...
Florida ex-attorney pleads guilty in $1.2 billion Ponzi scam Ohio | FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.: A disbarred attorney who courted politicians and star athletes and led a flamboyant lifestyle even by flashy South Florida standards pleaded guilty today to federal charges that he ran a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme. | Scott Rot...
Fla. ex-attorney pleads guilty in $1.2B Ponzi scam The Press Democrat | Scott Rothstein, 47, pleaded guilty to all five counts against him, including wire fraud, money-laundering conspiracy and a racketeering charge commonly used to take down Mafia chieftains. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 100 years in federa...
