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Revolt in ULFA ranks over peace talks
Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:36 AM
NEW DELHI, May 9 (UPI) -- Indian intelligence agencies said a revolt is brewing in the insurgent United Liberation Front of Assam with a faction calling for talks with the government. -
India protests heavy firing from Pakistan
Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:29 AM
NEW DELHI, May 9 (UPI) -- India Friday lodged a strong protest with Pakistan Rangers following heavy firing from across the border that India says was used to send in militants. -
Turkey and Iraq hold bilateral talks
Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:24 AM
BAGHDAD, May 9 (UPI) -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani welcomed a high-level delegation of Kurdish lawmakers from the Turkish Parliament Thursday in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Dogs of War: Inherently governmental?
Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:03 PM
By DAVID ISENBERG
WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- Amid all the polemics over the use of private military and security contractors by the U.S. government there are two words one rarely sees, but they lie at the very heart of the debate: "inherently governmental." -
Iraq Press Roundup
Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:28 AM
By HIBA DAWOOD
UPI Correspondent
The Sunni Al Mashriq newspaper said Thursday in an editorial titled "The killing of 15 women" that the problem any militia in the world faces is that no matter how politically professional, organized and ideologically mature they are, they still might be accepted by one country and rejected by another. -
Analysis: Border force seeks recognition
Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:21 AM
By KUSHAL JEENA
UPI Correspondent
NEW DELHI, May 9 (UPI) -- An Indian police force that guards the Indo-Tibetan border wants the federal Interior Ministry to give it the same status as other paramilitary security forces. -
Atlantic Eye: Hardly a done deal
Published: May 8, 2008 at 2:08 PM
By MARC S. ELLENBOGEN
UPI International Columnist
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, May 8 (UPI) -- Most Europeans see the U.S. presidential election as a done deal. They are quite surprised. They were convinced that Sen. Hillary Clinton was the sure thing. Now, and they are confused, they are expecting the inevitable: Sen. John McCain as president. -
Iraq Press Roundup
Published: May 7, 2008 at 3:29 PM
By HIBA DAWOOD
UPI Correspondent
Shebab Al Iraq newspaper Wednesday carried an editorial with the headline "Who is responsible for the atrocities in Sadr City?" -
U.S. looking into Iraq reconstruction contract requiring Iranian parts
Published: May 7, 2008 at 3:23 PM
By BEN LANDO
UPI Editor
WASHINGTON, May 7 (UPI) -- U.S. forces are investigating two contracts to build schools in northern Iraq that required bathroom fixtures to be supplied by Iran.
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European tax scandal reaches U.S.
Published: Feb. 27, 2008 at 11:35 AM
BERLIN, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Dozens of Germans have confessed to massive tax fraud via Lichtenstein as the affair widens to other countries, including the United States.
Besides Washington, the governments of Australia, Britain and France have announced they are checking whether their citizens were involved in the tax scandal, which got under way when Germany last week arrested Deutsche Post head Klaus Zumwinkel on charges that he funneled large sums of money to a Lichtenstein bank.
Germany, with the help of its spy agency, the Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, had paid a secret informant some $7.3 million in exchange for a CD containing incriminating data on hundreds of rich Germans who transferred several hundred millions of dollars to nearby Lichtenstein to avoid taxes.
Berlin has since said it would make the CD, which apparently also includes foreign nationals, available to other governments free of charge.
Prosecutors in the western city of Bochum, who are leading the probe, said 72 individuals have since confessed to tax fraud, with dozens of millions in back payments. Employees at three German banks are also under investigation, officials said.
On Tuesday, U.S. officials said they were investigating more than 100 American citizens for tax fraud via Liechtenstein bank accounts.
"Combating off-shore tax avoidance and evasion are high priorities for the IRS," Linda Stiff, the Internal Revenue Service's acting commissioner, said in a statement on Tuesday. "It should be clear from recent events that there is no safe hiding place for the proceeds of tax avoidance and evasion."
Australia is probing 20 citizens, while France said it had received a list of "several hundred" people suspected of having evaded taxes via Lichtenstein.
Switzerland and Luxembourg, two major European nations with protectionist bank secrecy laws, have denied being involved in the scandal.
Besides Washington, the governments of Australia, Britain and France have announced they are checking whether their citizens were involved in the tax scandal, which got under way when Germany last week arrested Deutsche Post head Klaus Zumwinkel on charges that he funneled large sums of money to a Lichtenstein bank.
Germany, with the help of its spy agency, the Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, had paid a secret informant some $7.3 million in exchange for a CD containing incriminating data on hundreds of rich Germans who transferred several hundred millions of dollars to nearby Lichtenstein to avoid taxes.
Berlin has since said it would make the CD, which apparently also includes foreign nationals, available to other governments free of charge.
Prosecutors in the western city of Bochum, who are leading the probe, said 72 individuals have since confessed to tax fraud, with dozens of millions in back payments. Employees at three German banks are also under investigation, officials said.
On Tuesday, U.S. officials said they were investigating more than 100 American citizens for tax fraud via Liechtenstein bank accounts.
"Combating off-shore tax avoidance and evasion are high priorities for the IRS," Linda Stiff, the Internal Revenue Service's acting commissioner, said in a statement on Tuesday. "It should be clear from recent events that there is no safe hiding place for the proceeds of tax avoidance and evasion."
Australia is probing 20 citizens, while France said it had received a list of "several hundred" people suspected of having evaded taxes via Lichtenstein.
Switzerland and Luxembourg, two major European nations with protectionist bank secrecy laws, have denied being involved in the scandal.
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