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wait, why doesn't Strauss have diplomatic immunity?

as head of the IMF there's no diplomatic immunity

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''The 32-year-old woman told police she entered Strauss-Kahn's room at about 1pm. Browne said: "She told detectives he came out of the bathroom naked, ran down a hallway to the foyer where she was, pulled her into a bedroom and began to sexually assault her, according to her account. She pulled away from him and he dragged her down a hallway into the bathroom where he engaged in a criminal sexual act, according to her account to detectives. He tried to lock her into the hotel room."

I can't imagine a guy in Krauss's position doing this, so if it's true it's f*ck*ng insane.

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn to face fresh sex assault complaint

French writer Tristane Banon claims the IMF chief acted like a 'rutting chimpanzee' in an attack on her nine years ago

A French writer who claims Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her nine years ago is to file an official complaint, her lawyer has announced.

Tristane Banon previously described the attack, which happened when she was in her early 20s, in a television programme in 2007, when she called Strauss-Kahn, whose name was bleeped out, a "rutting chimpanzee."

She says she consulted a lawyer at the time, but was persuaded not to take action by her mother, a regional councillor in the Socialist party and friend of the Strauss-Kahn family. Banon is goddaughter to Strauss-Kahn's second wife.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/16/dominique-strauss-khan-tristane-banon

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IMF chief Strauss-Kahn to undergo medical tests over sex charge

Dominique Strauss-Kahn intends to 'vigorously' defend himself against charges that he sexually assaulted a hotel maid

The head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has agreed to undergo scientific and forensic tests and intends to "vigorously" defend himself against charges that he sexually assaulted a hotel maid, his lawyers said.

The euro fell to a seven-week low against the dollar on Monday after the charges, raising uncertainty over the status of aid to Greece. Strauss-Kahn was pulled off an Air France flight on Sunday as he headed for Europe for crunch talks with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and European finance ministers over the debt crisis.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/16/dominique-strauss-kahn-medical-examination-court-hearing

The IMF head, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, faces charges of sexual assault in New York Link to video

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn to face fresh sex assault complaint

French writer Tristane Banon claims the IMF chief acted like a 'rutting chimpanzee' in an attack on her nine years ago

A French writer who claims Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her nine years ago is to file an official complaint, her lawyer has announced.

Tristane Banon previously described the attack, which happened when she was in her early 20s, in a television programme in 2007, when she called Strauss-Kahn, whose name was bleeped out, a "rutting chimpanzee."

She says she consulted a lawyer at the time, but was persuaded not to take action by her mother, a regional councillor in the Socialist party and friend of the Strauss-Kahn family. Banon is goddaughter to Strauss-Kahn's second wife.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/16/dominique-strauss-khan-tristane-banon

these late coming limelight stealers are kinda annoying still

just do it at the time, if it aint worth reporting then why is it now?

(yea i know that whole rape yada yada, could take years, bt why wait till someone else does, more chance of conviction? longer conviction? bored?)

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US raids civil service pension fund as it hits $14.3 trillion debt limit

The US has suspended payments into a civil service pension fund to free up almost $150bn (£92bn) as the major debtor nation approaches its legal borrowing limit.

Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury Secretary, announced the move in a letter on Monday to Congressional leaders as he explained that the move extends the government's breathing space to August 2 to avoid an unprecedented default on its borrowings.

The US Treasury expected to reach the $14.3 trillion limit on on Monday. Congress needs to raise the legal debt ceiling beyond its current limit, which will require Republicans and Democrats reaching agreement over an issue that bitterly divides them. President Barack Obama warned over the weekend that failure to raise the ceiling risks unravelling the world's financial system.

Given US government debt, or Treasuries as they are known, are considered the safest asset in financial markets and held by investors and central banks around the world, few want to imagine the consequences of a default.

"No one in the Treasury market really expects a default," said Bill O'Donnell, a strategist at UBS. "But people are doing up their seatbelts as the rhetoric will only increase over the summer and it could go right to the wire."

America's debt has become a sharp dividing line between the two parties and will be in next year's presidential election. John Boehner, the Republican leader of the House of Representatives, wants The White House and Democrats in Congress to agree to trillions of dollars in spending cuts before Republicans give the nod to any increase. Joe Biden, the vice-president, has been tasked with leading negotiations between the administration and leaders on both sides of the aisle in Congress.

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn maid 'feels alone in the world'

Hotel maid from Guinea feels 'threatened' by global attention and wants to remain anonymous, says lawyer

The lawyer for a hotel maid who accused IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual abuse says she feels "alone in the world" and is telling the truth.

Jeffrey Shapiro says his client is from the west African nation of Guinea. He says the woman, who has a 15-year-old daughter, has "no agenda" and did not know even know who Strauss-Kahn was until a day or two after she was allegedly attacked on Saturday.

Her story of being attacked by Strauss-Kahn in the Sofitel hotel suite near Times Square is "consistent" because she is telling the truth, he said.

"There is no way in which there is any aspect of this event which could be construed consensual in any manner," Shapiro said. "This is nothing other than a physical, sexual assault by this man on this young woman."

He continued: "It's not just my opinion that this woman is honest. The New York City police department reached the same conclusion." He added: "This is a woman with no agenda."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/18/dominique-strauss-kahn-maid

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Strauss-Kahn at Rikers Island: from luxury to dangerous New York jail

IMF chief detained at New York prison familiar to rap stars and with notorious reputation for violence

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn's new home on Rikers Island could not be further away from the world of jet-setting luxury he is used to.

After he was denied bail on Monday, the IMF chief was transferred to a three- metre by four-metre cell in the New York prison complex's west facility, the penal colony's smallest, which usually houses prisoners with communicable diseases.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/17/strauss-kahn-rikers-island

Strauss-Kahn, 62, who denies all the charges, has reportedly been put on suicide watch at the infamous Rikers Island prison in New York, after being denied bail on Monday. According to the Associated Press the IMF chief has a whole jail wing to himself, a medical device to make sure he doesn't stop breathing during the night and guards checking him 24 hours a day to make sure he does not attempt to take his own life.
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Bernard-Henri Lévy defends Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Lévy says that his friend Strauss-Kahn 'bears no resemblance to this monster being described'

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy has added his voice to the debate over Dominique Strauss-Kahn by writing a piece in defence of the director of the International Monetary Fund.

He writes: "I do not know what actually happened … in the room of the now famous Hotel Sofitel in New York …I do not know – no one knows, because there have been no leaks regarding the declarations of the man in question – if Dominique Strauss-Kahn was guilty of the acts he is accused of committing there, or if, at the time, as was stated, he was having lunch with his daughter."

He goes on to question how a chambermaid could have gone alone, "contrary to the habitual practice of most of New York's grand hotels of sending a 'cleaning brigade' of two people, into the room of one of the most closely watched figures on the planet".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/18/bernard-henri-levy-defends-dominique-strauss-kahn

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Spain bans protests ahead of elections

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Police and tens of thousands of young protesters camped out in dozens of Spanish cities are set to clash after the country's electoral authorities effectively ordered the government to dissolve the protests.

The committee declared that the protests contravened Spain's election laws, which ban campaigning the day before a vote. Municipal and regional government elections are to be held on Sunday amid a climate of growing anger over government austerity, spending cuts and 21% unemployment.

"They [the protests] are against electoral legislation... and cannot happen," the committee ruled.

More than 10,000 people gathered in support of the protesters camped out at a makeshift tent city in Madrid's central Puerta del Sol square in the early hours of Friday morning, greeting with boos and whistles the decision that they must leave.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/20/spain-bans-protest-ahead-election

Protest in the Med: rallies against cuts and corruption spread

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Sit-ins planned at parks and squares across Madrid, Rome, Barcelona, Milan and Florence

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/19/protest-med-cuts-corruption-spain

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn bailed over sexual assault allegations

Former IMF chief agrees to strict bail terms, including $5m insurance bond and order to remain under armed house arrest

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/19/dominique-strauss-kahn-bailed-sexual-assault-allegations

Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigns as head of IMF

• Strauss-Kahn resigns 'with infinite sadness'

• John Lipsky remains acting head of IMF

• Process begins to find new managing directo

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/19/dominique-strauss-kahn-resigns-imf

"I think at this time first of my wife – whom I love more than anything – of my children, of my family, of my friends. I think also of my colleagues at the fund; together we have accomplished such great things over the last three years and more.

"To all, I want to say that I deny with the greatest possible firmness all of the allegations that have been made against me.

"I want to protect this institution which I have served with honour and devotion, and especially – especially – I want to devote all my strength, all my time, and all my energy to proving my innocence."

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Barack Obama throws full US support behind Middle East uprisings

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• President unveils shift in US policy towards Arab countries

• 'Status quo not sustainable,' he warns region's autocracies

• Sets out two-state solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict

• Tells Syria's Assad to lead transition or 'get out of way'

Facing criticism that the US has repeatedly been behind the curve in response to the Arab spring, Obama promised a "new chapter" in US diplomacy. He placed Washington on the side of popular uprisings not only in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya but also in Syria and, for the first time, in Bahrain – a longtime American ally.

"The status quo is not sustainable," Obama said, referring to Arab autocracies and to the Israeli-Palestinian impasse.

On the eve of a visit by the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, to the White House, Obama showed frustration with the lack of any progress towards peace by setting out broadly what a future Palestinian state may look like, based on the border that existed before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. "The dream of a Jewish and democratic state cannot be fulfilled with permanent occupation," he said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/19/barack-obama-us-support-middle-east-uprisings

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The rise of Glencore, the biggest company you've never heard of

A few days after it was announced that the global commodities trader Glencore was to mount the biggest stock exchange float in British history, every major news organisation in the UK received a terse letter from a London law firm.

The letter was from Schillings, which is no ordinary corporate law firm: its lawyers describe themselves as reputation management experts, people who help clients "manage what is published and broadcast about them". They are particularly proud of their own reputation as the country's leading superinjunction specialists.

Glencore executives, the letter said, "are extremely private individuals", who expected scrutiny of their business activities, but not their personal lives. A warning followed about the "security risk" that could be posed by any reports about their homes or private lives.

Not all Glencore's board members are extremely private. A few days after Schillings' letter was dispatched, the group's new chairman, Simon Murray, gave one of his frequent media interviews, in which he offered his personal views on a number of matters, including asylum seekers – "people who claim to be running away from some place in Africa because they're being beaten up or something" – and his reluctance to employ young women, "because I know they're going to get pregnant and they're going to go off for nine months".

The executive whom Schillings had in mind when writing its letter was Glencore's chief executive, Ivan Glasenberg, a man so secretive that the Financial Times has described him as "one of the great enigmas of the corporate world".

In commodities, Glasenberg's name enjoys instant recognition. This is unsurprising, given his company's role in supplying the basic materials that heat, feed, move and house the world. Oil, gas, coal, aluminium, bauxite, nickel, iron ore, zinc, copper, grain, rice, sugar: Glencore and its subsidiaries have a hand not just in buying and selling all of these, but in producing, extracting and transporting them.

Glencore's market share is so large that it recorded revenues of $145bn (£89bn) last year and the flotation value is £37bn. Glasenberg, owning around 16%, will instantly become one of the world's richest men.

Over the next couple of years, Glasenberg became a trusted member of the inner circle that was known, perhaps inevitably, as the Rich Boys. They had a reputation for being pragmatic, aggressive in their trading and deal-making, and very secretive. They were by no means reclusive – a large network of influential contacts was essential – but they were said to have no wish to draw attention to the deals they struck.

"They have profited from being extremely secretive'" says Ammann. "The sort of people they do business with do not want their deals in the spotlight."

As well as trading with South Africa and Iran, Rich was dealing with Castro's Cuba and giving Mossad an occasional helping hand. At the end of 1993 he lost control of the company when a disastrous attempt to corner the world zinc market led to a number of the Rich Boys insisting he give up his majority stake. After a management buyout, Marc Rich & Co was renamed Glencore. Glasenberg was appointed chief executive in 2002, and until now the company has been run as a private partnership.

While Glasenberg is already a wealthy man, his lifestyle is by no means opulent. He is said to have just one home, a discreet modern villa in a pretty village near Zurich, not far from the Lindt chocolate factory. He appears to be motivated more by a determination to succeed – to be the best commodities trader, running the best business – than to be even more wealthy. Indeed, one person who knows him well say he is driven by anxiety that he may not succeed; that fear of failure is "the biggest fear of every minute" of his life.

Taking Glencore to the next level, however, giving it the chance of even greater success through a series of acquisitions, requires the $11bn of funds that will be raised through the flotation. And that will come at a high cost: his privacy. Glasenberg can expect far greater public scrutiny, and so can Glencore.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/may/19/rise-of-glencore-commodities-company

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Gordon Brown makes IMF pitch as race to succeed Strauss-Kahn intensifies

Former PM to make a speech in South Africa criticising western nations for their failure to meet aid targets on education

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Gordon Brown will stake his claim to be the next head of the International Monetary Fund with a speech in South Africa on Friday urging rich western nations to meet their pledges on education to the world's poor.

As jockeying began to fill the job of managing director of the Washington-based organisation left vacant by the resignation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former prime minister will seek to negate opposition to his candidature from David Cameron's coalition government with a direct appeal to developing countries.

Brown will share a platform with Graça Machel, the wife of Nelson Mandela, to launch his review of education, criticising the G8 countries for their failure to provide the aid necessary to meet the United Nations target of putting every child into school by 2015.

"My concern is that the international community is failing to honour a promise made to the world's children – a promise that the G8 underwrote," Brown says in the report. "And my conviction is that this is both unnecessary and counter-productive. It combines indefensible ethics with unsound economics."

Speaking to the Guardian earlier this week about his report on education, Brown said: "We are facing an education emergency. Unless we take the action we are proposing there is no chance of meeting the education MDG [millenium development goal]. That's a betrayal of children."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/may/20/gordon-brown-imf-strauss-kahn

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is new guy jewish?

not sure, but he's only acting.

Bookmakers have made Brown an outsider for the IMF job, installing the French finance minister Christine Lagarde as favourite to succeed her fellow countryman following his arrest at the weekendin New York over sexual assault allegations.
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that strauss guy was probably set up by the money men. the way its been described there has to have been witnesses who heard her screaming/ came to her aidnot that i will lose a skin cell over any possible conviction as he would have to have been part of the corrupt cabal of demonites to get the post in the first placehe had beef with one of the elders and this is the result. he knew what the company was capable of so its his loss. hopefully now he can join the other side and help the world find and destroy Cylla

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A boy of 15 who was said to have received £200 for shooting dead a woman on the doorstep of her mother's north London home, is convicted of her murder.

Gulistan Subasi, 26, was shot on her mother's doorstep at a flat in Hackney in March 2010, the Old Bailey heard.

Santre Gayle, now 16, had denied murder. The court he said he had been paid £200 for the crime.

Izak Billy, 22, of Willesden, was also found guilty of murder and making a threat to kill. Three other men were found not guilty of murder.

Serdar Ozbek, 28, of Wood Green; Paul Nicalaou, 29, of Tottenham; and Leigh Bryan, 25, of Hornsey; had also denied the crime.

Gayle was just 15 when he killed the mother.

He was recruited to carry out the attack because he had no connections with the Turkish community, the court heard.

His interests were said to be girls, football and playing on his X-Box.

But jurors were told he was a self-confessed cannabis dealer who was first convicted at 14 for an attempted robbery.

A judge lifted an order granting Gayle anonymity which had originally been put in place because of his age.

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