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'Untouchable' US prosecutor steps down

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Pakistan convicts doctor who helped find bin Laden

Pakistani men walk by the Central Jail in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. A Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden was sentenced to 33 years in prison on Wednesday for conspiring against the state, officials said, a verdict that is likely to further strain the country's relationship with Washington. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Pakistani men walk by the Central Jail in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. A Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden was sentenced to 33 years in prison on Wednesday for conspiring against the state, officials said, a verdict that is likely to further strain the country's relationship with Washington. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

This photo taken on July 9, 2010 shows Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi taken in Pakistani tribal area of Jamrud in Khyber region. Pakistani doctor Afridi, who helped the U. S. track down Osama bin Laden, was sentenced to 33 years in prison on Wednesday for conspiring against the state, officials said. (AP Photo/Qazi Rauf)

Oil tankers, which were used to transport NATO fuel supplies to Afghanistan, are parked in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, May 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

People sit on top of vehicles waiting to cross the border from Pakistan to Afghanistan in Torkham, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Oil tankers, which were used to transport NATO fuel supplies to Afghanistan, are parked in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

(AP) ? A doctor who helped the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden was convicted Wednesday of conspiring against the state and sentenced to 33 years in prison, adding new strains to an already deeply troubled relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan.

U.S. officials had urged Pakistan to release the doctor, who ran a vaccination program for the CIA to collect DNA and verify the al-Qaida leader's presence at the compound in the town of Abbottabad where U.S. commandos killed him in May 2011 in a unilateral raid.

The lengthy sentence for Dr. Shakil Afridi will be taken as another sign of Pakistan's defiance of American wishes. It could give more fuel to critics in the United States that Pakistan ? which has yet to arrest anyone for helping shelter bin Laden ? should no longer be treated as an ally.

The verdict came days after a NATO summit in Chicago that was overshadowed by tensions between the two countries that are threatening American hopes of an orderly end to the war in Afghanistan and withdrawal of its combat troops by 2014.

Islamabad was invited in expectation it would reopen supply lines for NATO and U.S. troops to Afghanistan it has blocked for nearly six months to protest U.S. airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani troops on the Afghan border. But it did not reopen the routes, and instead repeated demands for an apology from Washington for the airstrikes.

Pakistan's treatment of Afridi since his arrest following the bin Laden raid has in many ways symbolized the gulf between Washington and Islamabad.

In the United States and other Western nations, Afridi was viewed as a hero who had helped eliminate the world's most-wanted man. But Pakistan army and spy chiefs were outraged by the raid, which led to international suspicion that they had been harboring the al-Qaida chief. In their eyes, Afridi was a traitor who had collaborated with a foreign spy agency in an illegal operation on its soil.

Afridi, in his 50s, was detained sometime after the raid, but the start of his trial was never publicized.

He was tried under the Frontier Crimes Regulations, or FCR ? the set of laws that govern Pakistan's semiautonomous tribal region. Human rights organizations have criticized the FCR for not providing suspects the right to legal representation, to present material evidence, or to cross-examine witnesses. Verdicts are handled by a government official in consultation with a council of elders.

Afridi was tried in the Khyber tribal region, where he was raised. In addition to the prison term, he was ordered to pay a fine of about $3,500 and is subject to an additional 3? years in prison if he does not, according to Nasir Khan, a government official in Khyber.

Afridi can appeal the verdict within two months, said Iqbal Khan, another Khyber government official.

An official with Pakistan's main Inter-Services Intelligence agency said the decision was in Pakistan's "national interest," and he dismissed earlier appeals by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other American officials that Afridi should be released. The official did not give his name because the ISI doesn't allow its operatives to be identified in the media.

Asked in Washington to comment, Pentagon press secretary George Little declined to talk about the specific case, but added: "Anyone who supported the United States in finding Osama bin Laden was not working against Pakistan. They were working against al-Qaida."

Afridi was working for local health authorities in northwest Pakistan when he began working for the CIA. Nurses working for him reportedly knocked on the door of the compound in Abbottabad, but were not successful in obtaining a sample from the house to confirm bin Laden was living there.

After the raid, the Pakistan army kicked out U.S. military trainers and limited counterterrorism cooperation with the CIA. But relations got even worse in November when the U.S. killed the Pakistani border guards, an attack that Washington said was an accident but the Pakistani army insisted was deliberate.

Pakistan retaliated by closing the NATO supply routes and kicking the U.S. out of a base used by American drones. Before the attack, the U.S and other NATO countries fighting in Afghanistan shipped about 30 percent of their nonlethal supplies through Pakistan. Since then, the coalition has used far more expensive routes through Russia and Central Asia.

The U.S. has pressed Pakistan to reopen the supply line, but negotiations have been hampered by Washington's refusal to apologize for the attack and stop drone strikes in the country as demanded by Pakistan's parliament.

The latest drone strike took place Wednesday, when two missiles hit a compound in Datta Khel Kalai village in the North Waziristan tribal area, killing four suspected militants, said Pakistani intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to give their names to the media.

Despite the tensions, most analysts believe the U.S. cannot afford to turn its back on Pakistan entirely.

Pakistan is seen as vital to negotiating a peace deal with the Afghan Taliban and their allies, given the country's historical ties with the militants. Many in the Pakistani government realize it needs to repair relations with the U.S., partly to receive more than a billion dollars in American aid.

Talat Masood, a retired Pakistani general who is now a defense analyst, said the ISI likely preferred to see Afridi tried under the FCR because it was easier to get a prosecution than in a regular court. He said the verdict may reflect Pakistani annoyance at perceived ill-treatment at the Chicago meeting, but that improved relations could see him released.

"If things go well with the U.S., it's very likely that he will be pardoned," he said.

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Brummitt reported from Islamabad. Associated Press writers Rebeccan Santana in Islamabad, Pauline Jelinek in Washington and Ishtiaq Mahsud in Dera Ismail Khan contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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PFT: Union sues NFL, alleging collusion

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It?s graduation time throughout this great nation of ours.? Which means that, as students prepare to escape the rules and regulations of the provincial fiefdoms that have exercised (or at least tried to exercise) control over their actions, words, and thoughts for the past four years, they?ll periodically attempt to display the kind of individualism that too many schools try to stifle.

At Bishop Verot in Fort Myers, Florida, Chuck Shriner was denied his diploma after Tebowing in front of the school?s principal, according to the Naple News, via multiple other sites.

?They said what I did would give underclassmen inspiration to do something else, that it might lead to something else,? said Shriner, who eventually got his sheepskin after sweeping up the gym after the ceremony.? ?So they were trying to set an example.?

That?s the excuse that routinely is given for what in reality may be one last, desperate effort to subject a departing student to policies that are, all too often, arbitrary and capricious and downright foolish.? Action should be taken only when the student does something obviously improper and disrespectful.? Defying the ?because I said so? proclamation of the principal doesn?t cut it, no matter how delusional the principal has become regarding the extent of his or her power.

So lighten up, Francis, Sandy baby, and every other stiff-lipped ruler-wielding educator who has trouble accepting the fact that, every year, 25 percent of the inmates walk out of the prison.? Indulging ? and celebrating ? a creative impulse will go a long way toward nurturing the kind of outside-the-box thinking that will help a possible leader emerge from a throng of kids whom the principals would, in many situations, prefer to remain followers.

And if Tebowing or Bradying or Faith Hilling or Taylor Swifting ultimately becomes something that truly crosses the line (like, say, Gene Simmonsing, from either end), that?s when the powers-that-be should use their power one last time against the responsible student.

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China must act to prevent hard landing: World Bank

China's economic growth will ease further this year, presenting policy makers in Beijing with the challenge of preventing an excessively abrupt slowdown, the World Bank said in a report Wednesday.

The bank warned slower expansion in China would ripple across Asia and the Pacific, but said the region remained resilient to Europe's economic woes, describing it as a "bright light" in a world mired in low growth.

"China's near-term policy challenge is to sustain growth through a soft landing," the bank said in its half-yearly review of Asia's developing economies.

"While the prospects for a gradual slowdown remain high, there are concerns that growth could slow too quickly. However, sufficient policy space exists to respond to downside risks."

The World Bank predicted that China's economy, the world's second-largest, will expand 8.2 percent in 2012, down from 9.2 percent in 2011 and 10.4 percent in 2010.

"A further slowing of demand (in high-income countries) would ripple quickly through East Asia's production and trade networks, where China occupies a central position," it said.

"Second, the main domestic downside risk arises from the ongoing correction in China's property markets, even though such an adjustment has so far remained gradual and orderly."

Concerns over slowing growth have intensified in China after weak economic data for April was released last week. Growth in industrial production, imports, exports, fixed-asset investment and bank lending all eased in April.

Since then, Beijing has lowered the amount of money that banks are required to hold in their coffers, and economists predict more measures are to come.

The Chinese government has set a growth target of 7.5 percent for 2012, mainly in a bid to keep unemployment under control and avoid social unrest.

The World Bank said China has the means to boost fiscal spending, but should avoid the kind of massive infrastructure spending that characterised its response to the crisis in 2008.

"Fiscal measures to support consumption, such as targeted tax cuts, social welfare spending and other social expenditures, should be viewed as the first priority," it said.

Slower growth in China will pull down the region as a whole, with the developing economies in Asia and the Pacific expected to expand 7.6 percent in 2012 from 8.2 percent in 2011, the bank said, but it kept an optimistic tone.

"In a world where growth is stuttering along in most regions, East Asia and the Pacific is a bright light," said Pamela Cox, World Bank vice president for East Asia.

"It is a region that is resilient to Europe. Europe is a cloud on the horizon, but it is not pouring rain yet in East Asia," she said, referring to the sovereign debt crisis in Asia's key export markets.

Commodity exporters throughout the region experienced a boom in 2011, but may be vulnerable if China goes through a faster slowdown than anticipated, triggering an unexpected drop in commodity prices.

"If (China) were to slow down further, that might have an effect on commodity prices... so it is something to take account of," said Bert Hofman, the bank's chief economist for the region.

"Some countries like Australia have a very diversified economy, but some countries that are more narrowly based and rely predominantly on commodity exports might prepare for a situation where commodity prices might be a little lower."

The bank said this should prompt developing countries in the region to speed up an existing trend for relying less on exports and more on domestic demand to maintain high growth.

"Some countries will need to stimulate household consumption," said Bryce Quillin, World Bank economist and lead author of the report.

"In others, enhanced investment, particularly in infrastructure, offers the potential to sustain growth provided this does not exacerbate domestic demand pressures."

Hofman said the region as a whole seemed well positioned to weather new global volatility.

"Many countries run current account surpluses and hold high levels of international reserves. Banking systems are generally well-capitalised," he said.

"Still, risks emanating from Europe have the potential to affect the region through links in trade and finance."

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Franchise Business Law Blog: Franchisor Royalties and Income Tax

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In recent years we have noticed more states starting to impose a state income tax on franchisor royalties, even where the franchisor has no physical presence in that state. In 2011, the Supreme Court of Iowa, in KFC Corporation vs. Iowa Department of Revenue, held that Iowa was allowed to assess an income tax on the franchisor, on those royalties paid to the franchisor by KFC franchisees in Iowa. This decision was made despite the fact that KFC Corporation had no physical presence in the State of Iowa. The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review the ruling.

This ruling, along with other recent court rulings in various states indicates that most states will likely begin, or continue, to aggressively pursue the collection of income taxes off of royalty income from franchisors, regardless of their physical presence in a state. Franchisors need to prepare for the possibility of having to pay income tax in various states. We suggest each franchisor with franchisees in multiple states begin working with an accountant to analyze taxable income with respect to these types of tax liabilities.

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SAP to buy Ariba for $4.5B, extending cloud push

(AP) ? Business software maker SAP AG on Tuesday said it will buy Ariba Inc., which makes Web-based software that connects suppliers and buyers online, for about $4.51 billion.

The deal continues Germany-based SAP's rivalry with database maker Oracle Corp. Both companies are buying up smaller ones that, like Ariba, provide software that's hosted on remote servers, in the so-called "cloud." Cloud-based applications remove the need for businesses to install and run software in-house.

In April, Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle closed on the $1.9 billion acquisition of Taleo Corp., which provides cloud-based software that helps companies recruit and manage employees.

SAP said it is offering $45 per share for Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Ariba. Ariba shares closed Tuesday at $44.87, up $7.23, or 19 percent. The price indicates that investors expect the deal to be consummated at the price SAP is offering.

SAP shares fell 10 cents to $58.69 per share.

Ariba's board has approved the deal and SAP says it should close during the third quarter if Ariba shareholders approve the sale.

Ariba's business-to-business network connects 730,000 companies and transactions worth $319 billion per year, SAP said. It said it would keep the network open, letting companies that use competing business software packages from Oracle and Microsoft Corp. connect to it.

Ariba's revenue grew almost 40 percent to $444 million in its latest fiscal year. SAP says the deal should add to its adjusted profit in 2013. The company has about 2,600 employees.

Associated Press

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Donors pledge $4 bln aid to Yemen

Donors, with Saudi Arabia in the lead, pledged $4 billion (3.2 billion euros) in aid to impoverished Yemen on Wednesday as it grapples with a fragile political transition and struggles to contain a growing threat by Al-Qaeda.

"The conference today has allocated $4 billion dollars," Britain's junior foreign minister, Alistair Burt, said at the end of the Friends of Yemen meeting in Riyadh, saying London would contributed $44 million.

At the opening of the meeting, Saudi Arabia said it would give neighbouring Yemen $3.25 billion, and urged other nations to follow suit.

"To ensure Yemen's security and stability, the kingdom will provide $3.25 billion to support development projects there which will be agreed upon with the Yemeni side," Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said.

"The Yemeni government is exerting courageous efforts, but without the help of its brothers and friends, Yemen will not be able to solve the crises it is facing," said Prince Saud, who described the meeting as "positive."

Support for Yemen "includes providing expertise and help in all fields including economy, security and military," he said.

Yemeni Prime Minister Mohammed Basindawa pleaded for aid for his country, rocked by an uprising last year that forced former president Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down in February.

"The hope is in the political and economic support needed to overcome the transitional period and put an end to the budget deficit," Basindawa said.

"We are confident that you realise the danger and sensitivity of the situation in Yemen which needs lots and lots to recover ... We seek your help; don't fail us."

Yemeni Planning Minister Mohammed al-Saadi had told AFP his country will ask for about $10 billion in urgent aid at the meeting.

So far only 43 percent of $455 million earlier asked for by the UN and other organisations has been received for humanitarian aid for Yemen, with ongoing conflicts in the country's north and south only exacerbating the crisis.

Prince Saud said two agreements "worth $105 million will be signed in the health and power sectors" on Wednesday, adding that Riyadh had also recently provided support to Yemen's petrol and power sectors.

Basindawa said his government is planning development projects that needed funds and were part of a 2012-2013 programme aimed at reviving the economy and stabilising the security, political and social situation.

"The plan includes several projects in the fields of economy, politics, humanitarian assistance and reforms," said Basindawa.

On Wednesday, seven aid groups warned diplomats that Yemen was on the brink of a "catastrophic food crisis" and urged them to bolster efforts to salvage the situation.

At least 10 million people, some 44 percent of the population, do not get "enough food to eat", they said, adding that one in three children was "severely malnourished."

Saadi told AFP on Wednesday that there "is an urgent humanitarian need estimated at $470 million to help more than 500,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Abyan and Saada" provinces in the south and north.

He said investment projects "important as they are, can be postponed, but not humanitarian aid."

In the past two months alone, aid agencies say more than 95,000 people have been forced to flee their homes, bringing the total number to more than half a million.

Twenty-seven countries, including the six oil-rich Gulf Cooperation Council states, the United States and Britain, as well as international organisations, are attending the Riyadh meeting, the first since President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi took power on February 21.

In addition to poverty, Hadi's rule is challenged by a growing threat of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), considered by the United States as the most active branch of the global terror network.

"Security and stability are necessary for development" in Yemen, Prince Saud said.

Burt, who described the role of GCC states in Yemen as "remarkable and significant," said: "We should not underestimate what was achieved in Yemen."

On Monday, a suicide bomber dressed as a soldier, detonated explosives among soldiers of an army battalion in central Sanaa, killing 96 soldiers of them, in an attack claimed by AQAP.

"The appalling explosion that took place in Yemen and left hundreds martyred and wounded needs utmost attention from you to Yemen," Basindawa said.

As the meeting took place, the army pressed on in south Yemen an offensive against Al-Qaeda bastions leaving six Yemeni soldiers and 22 jihadists dead Wednesday, a security official and locals said.

That raised the death toll from the operations to 262 people killed in 12 days.

The Friends of Yemen forum was set up at an international conference in London in January 2010 to help Sanaa combat a resurgent threat from Al-Qaeda in the ancestral homeland of its slain leader, Osama bin Laden, as well as other security challenges.

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