Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernández, was said to be recovering well after an operation for thyroid cancer. She is expected to return to work onwow gold January 24th

 

 An international wow gold arbitration tribunal awarded Exxon Mobil $908m in compensation for assets nationalised by Venezuela’s government in 2007. Exxon had demanded more than $10 billion, but PDVSA, Venezuela’s state oil company, said it will pay Exxon just $255m. Exxon is pursuing a separate case against Venezuela at the World Bank’s arbitration panel.

An appeals court in Ecuador ratified an award of $9.5 billion in damages against Chevron for oil pollution. The American oil company said the judgment was fraudulent and politicised; it is taking action against the plaintiffs in international courts.

 

A long walk to freedom

Myanmar released hundreds wow gold of prisoners, and shortened prison terms for others, to mark the 64th anniversary of its independence from Britain, and just ahead of the first visit by a British foreign secretary to the country since 1955. Democracy activists claimed that only a handful of those freed were political prisoners. An American spokeswoman said the clemency wasn’t enough to merit lifting sanctions.Pakistan experienced its first terrorist attacks of the year, when two bombs killed five people in the north-west Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Meanwhile, the Pak Institute for Peace Studies in Islamabad reported that there were 1,966 terrorist attacks in Pakistan last year, which killed 2,391 people wow gold and injured more than 4,300. Both the number of attacks and the casualty count were lower in 2011 than in the two previous years. The Commonwealth responded cautiously to an announcement by the prime minister of Fiji, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, that the Pacific island state would lift a state of emergency and draft a new constitution. Fiji was suspended from the Commonwealth in 2009, three years after Mr Bainimarama seized power in a coup.

 

some kind of justice

Two men were convicted of the 1993 murder in London of Stephen Lawrence, a black British teenager. His wow gold killing led to much soul-searching in Britain about racism and the criminal-justice system. The original investigation was marred by police ineptitude and one of the men had previously been acquitted.

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