The week ahead

Posted on October 25, 2009
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The trial of Radovan Karadzic for war crimes gets under way, and other news

• THE trial of Radovan Karadzic is set to begin at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague on Monday October 26th. Mr Karadzic, who led Bosnian Serbs during the war of secession that accompanied the collapse of Yugoslavia, has been charged with war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. He is accused of atrocities against Croats and Bosnian Muslims and most notably is charged with ordering the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica of over 7,000 Muslim men and boys. See article

• THE Obama administration's plans for coping in the future with teetering giant financial firms will be unveiled on Monday October 26th. Details of a new bill that will give America's government the power to dismantle stricken banks is intended to belie the notion that some financial firms are “too big to fail”. The legislation may also be extended to cover huge insurance companies. ...

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