LITTLE ROCK — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 53, said the Iranian government will open for every newborn child a savings account with an initial deposit of $1,100 and additional deposits to be made by the government and parents, with the aim of giving each child a minimum of $100,000 by adulthood.
Amina Tarek, a Jordanian activist, was arrested after she stood in a square along one of Amman’s trendiest streets covered in lettuce because, Tarek says, she wanted Jordanians “to turn over a new leaf” and become vegetarians.
Jean Gregoire Sagbo, 48, from the West African country of Benin won election to the municipal council of Novozavidovo, Russia, 65 miles north of Moscow, becoming the first black to be elected to office in the country’s history.
Daniel Van Plew,of Bethlehem, N.Y., won’t face charges after he chased and tackled a 14-year-old boy, who was not seriously hurt, after the child rang his doorbell in a late-evening prank, the Albany district attorney’s office said.
Sen. Jim Webb, 64, a Virginia Democrat, called for ending government-run diversity programs, saying in a Wall Street Journal column that a “plethora of government-enforced diversity policies have marginalized many white workers.”
Jesus Quinonez, 49, a Mexican law-enforcement official whom a U.S. officer called the “go-to guy” for the Baja attorney general’s office, was charged with sharing confidential information with drug traffickers and arranging the arrests of his drug boss’s rivals.
Michael Conahan, 58, a former judge in northeastern Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge for his role in a $2.8 million kickback scheme that put juvenile defendants behind bars at two private detention facilities.
Bill Weir, currently co-host of ABC News’ weekend edition of Good Morning America and a reporter for the news division’s other programs, was named a co-anchor of Nightline, replacing Martin Bashir, who is taking a job at the rival NBC News.
Manuel Zelaya, ousted president of Honduras, will not face two abuse-of-power charges because of an amnesty approved by that country’s Congress, but will still face charges of fraud, usurping other institutions’ powers and falsifying documents, Judge Humberto Palacios ruled.
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