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Leymah Gbowee, a Nobel Prize winner who once used a sex strike to help force peace talks in Liberia, said American women must take action if they want to shape the nation’s fiscal and social priorities, adding, “It is time for women to stop being politely angry. It’s time for us to get up.”
Vladimir Popovkin, 54, chief of the Russian Federal Space Agency, was taken to a military hospital in Moscow to recover from a “heavy workload and exhausting trips,” and will return to work in several days.
Christopher Lee Carlson, 39, was arrested in Portland, Ore., in connection with about 100 threatening letters containing white powder that were sent to members of Congress, including House Speaker John Boehner, R-ohio, and some media organizations.
Wang Shengjun, president of China’s Supreme People’s Court, said in his annual report to the National People’s Congress that more changes are needed in China’s judicial system to overcome lingering problems with transparency and corrupt judges.
William Bryan Jennings, 45, the Morgan Stanley U.S. bond-underwriting chief accused of stabbing Mohamed Ammar, a New York City cab driver, over a fare, pleaded innocent to assault and hate-crime charges based on the man’s Middle Eastern descent.
Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, a Malaysian minister facing accusations that her family misused an $83 million government loan meant for a cattle project to purchase condominiums, vacations and a Mercedes, said she will step down as minister of women, family and community once her term as senator ends.
The Rev. James Reilly, a longtime pastor of a Roman Catholic church in northern New Jersey, was hospitalized in critical condition after a fire at the church rectory left him with burns over 40 percent of his body.
Fredrik Reinfeldt, 46, Sweden’s prime minister since 2006, and his 44-yearold wife, Filippa, have separated after two decades of marriage.
Jonathan Collett, spokesman for the Press Complaints Commission, the body by which British newspapers regulate themselves and a target of criticism since the outbreak of the tabloid phone-hacking scandal, said the organization’s directors unanimously agreed that it should begin shutting down and transferring its responsibilities to an interim body.