Twelve Burmese taking legal action in California claim that their country’s military government used forced labour and its soldiers employed murder and rape tactics to clear the way for a foreign-funded petrol pipeline.
Michael Jackson is facing bankruptcy, according to the people he hired fiveyears ago to take care of his financial matters. But the singer’s lawyersclaim that Jackson is not suffering so much from financial woes as anillness caused by a surfeit of lawsuits, write Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles and Tania Branigan in London
A fortune hangs on the judge’s ruling in the legal battle over Winnie the Pooh, writes Duncan Campbell from Los Angeles.
Her code name was Parlour Maid and since the Eighties she had been
regarded as one of the most valuable assets in the FBI’s Chinese espionage network.
Director Roman Polanski has been nominated for an Oscar for The Pianist, but even though the woman he raped says the Academy should give him the award, others feel less enthusiastic about it, reports Duncan Campbell.
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/ 14 February 2003
Annie Proulx was a late starter in the novelist stakes, but she has caught on quickly, writes Duncan Campbell in Wyoming.
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/ 14 February 2003
Politics are influencing this year’s Academy Awards, writes Duncan Campbell.
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/ 31 January 2003
President George Bush will today try to persuade Tony Blair to take the next and possibly final step towards war by setting a deadline for Iraq to disarm or face a military attack.
Mandela lashes out at Bush
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/ 29 January 2003
The use of the death penalty in the United States is to be challenged by a case brought by the Mexican government on behalf of 51 Mexicans awaiting execution in jails across the border. The case highlights the international unease about the US justice system.
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/ 25 January 2003
The United States is condoning the torture and illegal interrogation of prisoners held in the wake of September 11, in defiance of international law and its own constitution, according to lawyers, former US intelligence officers and human rights groups.