Mr Zammar is wanted in Syria on long-standing charges that he was involved in a bombing plot there.

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That would open up Mr Zardari to prosecution on long-standing corruption charges.

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This week its founder, Soner Yalcin, was detained along with three fellow hacks for alleged involvement with the so-called Ergenekon gang of generals and like-minded coup-mongers, who are standing trial on charges of seeking to overthrow the government.

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Council Member Larry Seabrook, currently standing trial on corruption charges for abusing discretionary funds, lost the power to allocate the money in his district.

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And it is a grievous disservice to the public that our government is constitutionally obliged to protect and to our nation's standing internationally to have such charges blithely made by those who should know better.

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Such a step could be politically difficult by opening the president up to charges that he isn't standing firmly enough behind the U.S. military.

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Those documents allowed Subway to lease him a mall store with expensive common charges, open other outlets near his location and avoid standing up for him against his landlord.

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Even though no charges have been pressed against Underwood, the incident definitely affected his standing on the team.

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The charges, which will be heard on January 24, continue a bad week for the standing of football in Italy, with the country's reputation having also been "damaged" in the eyes of former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi after last week's racism walkoff involving AC Milan.

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