Scandals

Abbas aide sex tape scandal shakes Palestinians

KARIN LAUB and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH AP 13.02.2010
Abbas aide sex tape scandal shakes Palestinians

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian officials on Friday rallied around a top aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after a video surfaced showing him in the nude in an alleged attempt to trade his influence for sex.

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How take for his privet works workers and do not pay them. He sent them to take the money from Kremlin???


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A Russian company for oil and gas works receives full payment for laying new pipes in Russia. but has laid old pipes in some areas

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BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- A political scandal riveting Northern Ireland has a certain cinematic feel: an affair by 58-year-old woman named Mrs. Robinson with a 19-year-old male lover.


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PARIS - France's Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand appeared to have saved his job Friday after an emotional television appearance in which he admitted paying for sex with men but angrily rejected paedophilia charges.

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The French government minister who led calls to free Roman Polanski was under pressure to resign today after it emerged he paid for sex with ‘young boys’.


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The U.S. embassy in Afghanistan said on Friday it had fired security guards who were photographed engaging in lewd acts at alcohol-fuelled parties.

Swedish newspaper accuses Israeli troops of harvesting organs from dead Palestinians

Israeli troops are accused in a newspaper article of harvesting organs from dead Palestinians, and Israel wants Sweden's government to condemn the Swedish paper that published it.


Omar Abdullah denies any link to a prostitution ring, saying he has stepped down to clear his name.

The chief minister of Indian-administered Kashmir tendered his resignation Tuesday after he was accused of being involved in a 2006 sex scandal, his adviser said.

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What began as a government internship for a one-time honors student with a questionable past has become a full-blown sex scandal that ensnared a married Tennessee state senator and led him to resign.


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Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina acknowledged Thursday that he visited his mistress in Argentina on a taxpayer-financed trade mission to South America early last summer, an admission adding another layer to a scandal that produced increasing ca...

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The sex scandal plaguing Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi took a fresh turn yesterday with the release of a video of one of his parties.


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Mark Sanford, the governor of South Carolina, a rumored 2012 presidential contender, tearfully confessed to having an affair with a woman in Argentina, dealing the latest blow to a struggling Republican Party.

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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has refuted allegations that he paid prostitutes to attend parties he hosted at his various homes.


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He has made no secret of his love of women but the sex scandal surrounding Silvio Berlusconi is now threatening to topple him, as more claims emerge of the systematic recruitment of young women paid to attend private parties at his homes in Rome a...

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Lawyers for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi have announced that they will sue the Spanish newspaper El Pais for publishing explicit photos they described as violating the premier's privacy.


Third love-child claim hits Paraguayan president

Lonzo Cook and Claudia Dominguez CNN 23.04.2009
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(CNN) -- A third woman has come forward claiming that Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo fathered a child with her out of wedlock.

Fla. Realtor uses boat to display foreclosed homes

MITCH STACY Associated Press 30.03.2009
Realtor Marc Joseph shows potential real estate buyers a map of the area as they ride by pontoon boat to view vacated properties Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Cape Coral, Fla. Joseph runs Foreclosure Tours R Us, a real estate company that shows foreclosed properties to potential buyers by bus and pontoon boats.

Here at the epicenter of the nation's housing crisis, an ebullient Marc Joseph bounces off a pontoon boat onto a dock behind a lovely waterfront home — it was recently vacated when its former inhabitants couldn't pay the mortgage


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The White House was rocked yesterday by claims that the daughter of Joe Biden, the Vice-President, was shown on video snorting cocaine.

Alaska Democrats aim to block Palin's state Senate pick

Sean Cockerham The Miami Herald 30.03.2009
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Gov. Sarah Palin has appointed legislative aide Tim Grussendorf to the state Senate seat that opened when Juneau Democrat Kim Elton resigned. It's a controversial pick that Grussendorf's own party says it will try to block.