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Whether it is merely the FBI trying to restore its shattered credibility or justice finally being done, the news that the pay-for-play activities of the Clinton Foundation are going to get renewed and serious attention is welcome. The Clintons have made a career of ignoring, breaking and skirting the law. Up to this point for the Clintons crime has paid off handsomely, but now they may find themselves caught between Little Rock and a hard place: The Justice Department has launched a new inquiry into whether the Clinton Foundation engaged in any pay-to-play politics or other illegal activities while Hillary...

Christopher Pala for The New York Times Workers for China National Petroleum who helped build a $700 million pipeline attended an opening ceremony in Atasu, Kazakhstan, in December. A company executive called the pipeline "the new Silk Road."  March 17, 2006 China Pays Dearly for Kazakhstan Oil By CHRISTOPHER PALA ALMATY, Kazakhstan ? China, which for more than a century turned its back on Central Asia, has reached out to Kazakhstan, Central Asia's biggest country, for one major reason: oil.In 2005, the China National Petroleum Corporation bought Petrokazakhstan, a Canadian-run company that was the former Soviet Union's largest independent...

KIEV - Some 27 out of 29 high priority documents concerning the creation of the Common Economic Area have been prepared, Ukrainian Deputy Economy Minister Andrey Berezny declared at a meeting of a top level task force for creating the Common Economic Area, which is held in Kiev, Ukraine. Two unprepared documents, an accord on investment activities and the free movement of capital within the Area as well as on strengthening the common principles of activities of natural monopolies, will be ready in November or December 2004. Berezny noted that some 75 out of 85 basic documents concerning the creation...