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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2012
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NEWS OF THE WORLD
SOUTH AMERICA
16 year olds, immigrants may get vote
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Supporters of Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez gather for a rally in Buenos Aires, Argentina. President Cristina Fernandez's legislative powerbrokers are proposing radical changes to the country's electoral laws that would allow both foreigners and 16-year-olds vote to determine who should run the country.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina —
Argentina is rethinking what it means to be a citizen, proposing radical changes that would have both foreigners and 16-year-olds vote to determine who should run the country.
President Cristina Fernandez's legislative powerbrokers say the proposed electoral laws will enhance democracy and challenge the world to treat voting as a universal human right. Opponents call it a naked attempt to prolong the power of a decade-old government that has showered public money on migrants and young people.
With approval likely in a Congress controlled by the president's allies, the laws would expand Argentina's electorate by 3 million voters, or roughly 10 percent, and make it among the world's most permissive countries in terms of voting rights, allowing foreigners with two years of permanent residency to cast ballots.
"I've very important — there are so many of us here in Buenos Aires," said thrilled migrant Karen Gonzalez, a 48-year-old nanny whose family now includes two
grandchildren in her adopted city,
"I've been here for more than 20
years and I love Argentina. I'm Paraguayan and I love my country, too,
but I owe so much to Argentina, so
I want to vote."
Very few nations trust people still in their adolescence to help choose their nation's leaders. Austria, Brazil, Cuba and Nicaragua also start voting at age 16.
When Mauro Eichmann looks around at his fellow 16-year-olds in his suburban Buenos Aires high school, he doesn't see anyone responsible enough to vote for president.
Politician's wife receives death penalty
While welcoming immigrants into polling stations would add 1 million voters, lowering the voting age from 18 to 16 would add 2 million more.
HEFEI, China — The wife of a disgraced Chinese politician received a suspended death sentence Monday for the murder of a British businessman, as authorities move to tidy up a huge political scandal ahead of a once-in-a-decade leadership transition this fall.
ASIA
Gu Kailai's sentencing clears the way for the ruling Communist Party to deal with her husband, Bo Xilai, who was formerly one
almost certainly be commuted to life in prison after two years, a relatively lenient punishment resulting from her cooperation with investigators and what the court deemed her mental instability at the time of Heywood's death by cyanide poisoning last November.
of China's most prominent politicians before being stripped of his Politburo post in the scandal. Bo has not been directly implicated in the murder of Neil Heywood, but is accused of unspecified grave violations of party discipline.
Family aide Zhang Xiaojun, accused of abetting the murder, was sentenced to nine years.
"They are eager to close the case and move on," said Dali Yang, director of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing.
AFRICA
Gu's suspended sentence will
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ivory Coast troops patrol in the Cocody area of Abidjan, Ivory Coast. More than a year after 3,000 people died in political violence in ivory Coast, the nation is being rocked by brazen attacks on military forces by shadow gunmen.
Unknown shooters target military
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast More than a year after 3,000 people died in political violence in Ivory Coast, the nation is being rocked by brazen attacks on military forces by shadowy gunmen. In a country awash in weapons and grudges, the list of suspects includes loyalists of a disgraced president and former rebel fighters who supported the new president and haven't received anything in return.
The unidentified gunmen struck twice just last week, storming checkpoints near the Liberian border and then security posts and a prison in a town 30 miles west of Abidjan, the commercial capital. On Aug. 6, gunmen struck a military base right in Abidan, killing six soldiers and stealing
an untold number of weapons including rocket propelled grenades and AK-47 assault rifles. In total, six attacks targeting Ivory Coast's military have been reported in less than two weeks. At least 11 soldiers and one civilian have been killed. The attacks threaten to unleash chaos in a country once hailed as a model of stability in West Africa
for trial before the International Criminal Court in The Hague and the internationally recognized election winner, Alassane Ouattara, was sworn in as president.
They are seen as a direct result of a post-election crisis that was triggered by former President Laurent Gbagbo's refusal to admit defeat in the November 2010 election. The post-election violence stretched from December 2010 to May 2011, continuing even after Gbagbo was captured in a bunker in the presidential palace in April. Gbagbo was later hauled away
Interior Minister Hamed Baakayoko blames the new attacks on Gbagbo's supporters working in partnership with rogue soldiers. But observers say that while the attacks are likely being directed by pro-Gbabgo elements who have opposed Uattara for years — and who would continue to oppose him regardless of how he governed
—the violence is being abetted by the proliferation of arms throughout the country, a failure to reintegrate and disarm tens of thousands of ex-combatants.
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