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...they say. A spokesman for Australian Attorney-General Robert McClelland says the allegations "show why there cannot be any relaxation of standards when it comes to verifying the identity of children adopted under the inter-country program." While he says the government "is endeavoring to improve Australia-wide practice in respect to overseas adoption," Zabeen's parents would like to see firm control taken, with foreign adoptions handled by federal rather than state agencies. "It has been extremely nerve-wracking," they told TIME last week. "So far we have managed to keep this all away from the children...
...Some eyebrows were raised in Montenegro when the government agreed to a $5 million sale price for about 62 acres (25 ha) of land and a half-mile (0.8 km) stretch of palm-shaded shoreline facing a wide bay backed by mountains. But, contends Djukanovic, "you either sell the land or buy a project. We bought a project." In addition to creating an estimated 5,000 jobs when finished, the investors agreed to clean up the waters around the site, buy out about 480 workers who lost their jobs when the shipyard shut down, and upgrade Tivat's sewage...
...There's been wide consensus for a long time in France that when the right times come, the army must be used - even if the price to pay for that will be the loss of soldiers," says François Heisbourg, special adviser to the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris. "Once the shock of these deaths eases, people won't ask whether we can stand the losses - we obviously can. Nor will it be whether this is a legitimate and important war for global stability - it is. Debate will focus on how we get down to business...
...vulnerable to blackmail - was lifted at the start of the 1990s, but perceptions of Whitehall as a place where it's better to stay in the closet have been harder to shift. "All we're doing is making sure as a prospective employer we're spreading our net as wide as possible to attract the best possible candidates who fully represent the diversity of U.K. society," says a senior Whitehall source. Summerskill suggests that gay candidates may even have an advantage over straight rivals. "If you have grown up as part of a minority community, you're probably more used...
...widower, Asif Ali Zardari, could start wrangling over Musharraf's freshly evacuated seat. Zardari has deflected suggestions that he's interested, but suspicions linger that he may wish to become the next head of state - if only as a ceremonial figure. The coalition has vowed to claw back the wide-ranging powers with which Musharraf endowed the presidency...