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• Real Madrid 'refused Man City bid for Van Nistelrooy'

  - 2008-09-03

  MADRID AFP — Real Madrid turned down a "blank cheque" for their Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy from Manchester City after selling their Brazilian forward Robinho to the English side, sports daily Marca reported on Wednesday. Manchester City and its new owner, billionaire Arab businessman Sulaiman Al-Fahim of the...

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• Indonesian businessman gets 10 years for illegal logging

  - 2008-08-01

  JAKARTA AFP — Indonesia's Supreme Court sentenced a fugitive businessman in absentia to 10 years in jail for illegal logging Friday, nine months after he was controversially acquitted by a lower court, a report said. The court found Adelin Lis guilty of illegally felling vast swathes of trees on...

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• British mercenary goes on trial over EGuinea coup plot

  - 2008-06-17

  MALABO AFP — British mercenary Simon Mann goes on trial Tuesday in Equatorial Guinea for allegedly plotting to oust the oil-rich country's iron-fisted ruler -- a charge that could carry the death penalty. Other well-connected Britons such as Mark Thatcher, the son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher,...

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• Briton Simon Mann goes on trial over EGuinea coup plot

  - 2008-06-17

  MALABO, June 17, 2008 AFP — The trial of British mercenary Simon Mann, accused of plotting to oust the president of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea in a 2004 coup attempt, opened Tuesday in the capital Malabo. Mann arrived at the court in an armoured van amid tight security for his...

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• Australian colonial premier dug up for paternity test

  - 2008-05-26

  SYDNEY AFP — The exhumation of a lecherous Australian colonial leader for a paternity test has angered his acknowledged relatives who Tuesday described the process as "appalling." The remains of South Australian premier Charles Cameron Kingston, who died a century ago, were dug up in March at the request...

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• American-Jewish businessman admits funding Olmert

  - 2008-05-11

  JERUSALEM AFP — Millionaire US businessman Morris Talanski admitted on Sunday that he gave financial contributions to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert but insisted he had believed they were intended for legitimate purposes. "I never thought in any way that the money I gave was illegal or wrong," the...

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• Israeli PM Olmert denies taking bribes

  - 2008-05-08

  JERUSALEM AFP — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Thursday denied allegations of bribery but said he would resign if charged in a case that threatens to shake up the nation's political landscape. Details of the allegations against the 62-year-old premier were unveiled after the justice ministry lifted a...

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• Olmert to be questioned over alleged kickbacks: report

  - 2008-05-02

  JERUSALEM AFP — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, due to be questioned by police investigating allegations of corruption on Friday, is suspected of receiving kickbacks from a US businessman, a newspaper reported. Olmert is already the subject of other inquiries, but the Yediot Aharonot daily said the latest affair...

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• Marilyn Monroe sex reel sells for 1.5 million dollars: report

  - 2008-04-14

  NEW YORK AFP — A 15-minute film clip of late movie legend Marilyn Monroe giving oral sex to an unidentified man was sold Monday to a businessman, who chose to remain anonymous, for 1.5 million dollars, The New York Post said. The film is a copy of a 1950s...

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• Malaysian man divorces two wives in three minutes: reports

  - 2008-04-02

  KUALA LUMPUR AFP — A Malaysian man divorced his two wives in three minutes, saying they had "collectively decided" to end their marriages to him and he had "never expected" such an outcome, reports said Wednesday. Roslan Ngah divorced his wives on Tuesday in an Islamic court in conservative...

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