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Taiwan ex-president gets 19 years in prison (Reuters)

November 11th, 2010

Reuters - Taiwan’s supreme court sentenced ex-president Chen Shui-bian, an anti-China firebrand whose rhetoric enraged Beijing and irked Washington, and his wife to 19 years in prison for bribery, a…

Argentina’s powerful ex-President Kirchner dies (Reuters)

October 27th, 2010

UNASUR secretary general and former Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner arrives at Miraflores Palace in Caracas August 5, 2010, for a meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. REUTERS/Jorge SilvaReuters - Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, the current president’s husband and a contender to succeed her in next year’s election, died from a heart attack on Wednesday.


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Ex-President Carter arrives in Pyongyang (AP)

August 25th, 2010

Former President Jimmy Carter speaks during an interview with Reuters in Juba, south Sudan in this April 13, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Goran TomasevicAP - Former President Jimmy Carter arrived Wednesday in the capital of communist North Korea on a mission to bring home an American sentenced to eight years’ hard labor for…

Reports: Ex-President Carter en route to NKorea (AP)

August 25th, 2010

AP - South Korean media said Wednesday that former President Jimmy Carter has departed on his mission to North Korea that U.S. officials say is aimed at bringing home an…

New Kyrgyz leaders vow to prosecute ex-president (AP)

April 16th, 2010

Kyrgyzstan's deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev speaks to the media in the courtyard of his family home, in the village of Teyit, in the Jalal-Abad region, southern Kyrgyzstan, Wednesday, April 14, 2010. Bakiyev claims he's still the legitimate ruler but would be willing to resign in exchange for security guarantees for him and close relatives. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - With the tremors of Kyrgyzstan’s violent revolution subsiding, the country’s provisional leader said Friday that her government will push for an international probe of the former president, who has…