Mr. Tan's interest in Bumi is part of a wider boardroom standoff between the British financier Nathaniel Rothschild, who partly owns the company, and the Bakrie family, which controls another stake in Bumi.
He still loves a good niggle though, tracking Danny to his house to have a standoff about the wider implications of the cover-up.
The standoff has raised wider concerns about the effectiveness of the UN system when permanent members appear permanently at odds and its aid convoys are blown up.
The lawyer, Ben Emmerson, special investigator for the United Nations Human Rights Council, said at a news conference that the nine-month study would look at "drone strikes and other forms of remotely targeted killing," including a wide array of so-called standoff weapons used in modern warfare, like ground-launched missiles and similar weapons fired from manned aircraft.
A standoff looms over Gibraltar amid the wider negotiations to remove Britain from the EU and sign new deals on issues such as trade and security with the bloc.
The A.K.P. claimed that all this had been orchestrated by Gülen's wide network of followers, the climax of a standoff between two influential figures in their bids for authority over Turkish business and politics.
The standoff at the mosque was emblematic of Egypt's wider chaos, with no end in sight to a feud between Mr. Morsi's supporters and the military that has devolved into violent conflict since last week.
Mr. Obama said consistently through the standoff that he was willing to have a wide-ranging budget negotiation once the government was reopened and the debt limit raised.
Such pointed remarks are just the latest volleys in an increasingly bitter standoff between banks, emboldened by a return to profitability, and the wider public, which is still paying the costs of the roughly £1 trillion bailout of the financial sector.
(AP) STANDOFF WITH STEELER'S GIRLFRIEND The girlfriend of Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Cedrick Wilson was in custody after a nearly 12-hour standoff at Wilson's home in western Pennsylvania that led to the evacuation of about 70 neighbors, the police said.
