Burma has been rendered in journalism, activism and art as a country of plain dichotomies: good vs.
HBO Documentary ‘Burma Soldier’ Reveals Life Under Junta
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Gigolo on trial for blackmail of BMW heiress
The gigolo former lover of Germany’s richest woman goes on trial in Munich Monday, charged with trying to blackmail her out of millions of dollars. Susanne Klatten, the BMW heiress, complained to police last year that Helg Sgarbi had threatened to release pictures of them if she did not pay him nearly $60 million. Klatten’s spokesman, Joerg Appelhans, told CNN last year that the BMW heiress had alerted police in January that she was the victim of fraud and blackmail by a man he identified at the time as Mr
Lawmaker linked to attacks, Iraqi authorities say
Iraqi authorities Sunday linked a Sunni Arab lawmaker to a series of attacks and insurgent plots, including an April 2007 bombing that killed two of his own colleagues. The lawmaker, Mohammed al-Daini, denied the allegations in a televised statement and accused the government of “political blackmail.” But an Iraqi military spokesman showed videotaped statements from al-Daini’s bodyguards that appeared to implicate him in the plots.