Day November 27, 2006

The contracts were worth 2.3 billion, so that’s about a 10% kickback. Top execs of the company are facing prison and this looks to be a mega-scandal indeed as it could blow up the second-largest wheat exporter on the planet.…

Full quote: “This is more than deeply disturbing,” Bloomberg told a packed news conference at City Hall Monday morning. “It sounds to me that excessive force was used but that’s up to the district attorney to find out.” Also Witnesses…

Jordan’s King: Middle East faces civil wars in Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine.

The NYPD police officers who fired 50 times into a car, killing a man to be married that day, claimed he had a gun. He didn’t. The officers have been stripped of their weapons, which is highly unusual, and it…

Rafael Correa, a leftwing economist and ally of Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, is trouncing his right wing opponent in the runoff for president of Ecuador.