This was the week in which reality returned noisily to the scene, as the Conservatives' divisions over Europe reappeared (see article threatening to consume the prime minister and to destroy his party's slim remaining chance of winning the general election on May 1st.
The co-sponsors of the measure, Britain, France and the United States, won the unanimous vote by agreeing at the last minute to drop a reference to a United Nations Charter article threatening economic sanctions against Syria and replacing it with a warning of unspecified "further action" -- which could, in the end, still include such measures.
Mr. Uddin had recently filed a complaint with the police seeking protection after he was threatened over articles he had written about the illicit drug trade.
Mr. Nugent, who is also a National Rifle Association board member, will be a guest of Representative Steve Stockman, a Texas Republican who recently made headlines by threatening to file articles of impeachment against Mr. Obama if the president issued executive orders that strengthened gun control laws.
Late Wednesday, a lawyer for Trump, Marc E. Kasowitz, wrote to the Times demanding a retraction of its article and threatening to sue for libel.
Four of the country's six provinces, which support Mr Ratsiraka, are threatening to secede.See article: Madagascar embargoes itselfForces loyal to Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, who claims the presidency of Puntland, captured Bossasso, the commercial capital.
Britain's chancellor of the exchequer can boast of the country's stable economic growth and of all the extra money he has been pouring into public services (see article), without threatening that stability.
Now, after the collapse of a rig leased by BP in the Gulf of Mexico, costing 11 lives and threatening environmental catastrophe (see article), he is in the meat grinder of public opprobrium along with Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, and Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota.So far he has done a creditable job of crisis-management.
"I am sure Adel Abdul Mahdi was not involved," said Ahmad Abdulhussein, a journalist threatened for an article he wrote on the case.
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