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• Kline said his 25-year-old client was relieved and expected to receive the money within a month. The man identified himself for his testimony, but AP generally does not identify people who are victims of sex crimes.
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China says Bo Xilai, at center of major scandal, to stand trial this week in corruption case
• BEIJING (AP) -- Bo Xilai, a rising Communist Party star who fell from power last year, will go on trial Thursday on corruption charges, a court announced, putting China's new leaders on course to wrap up a festering scandal as they try to cement their authority.
• The former party secretary of the major city of Chongqing was dismissed last year in a scandal that saw his wife convicted of killing a British businessman.
• Bo will stand trial in the Intermediate People's Court of the eastern city of Jinan on charges of taking bribes, embezzlement and abuse of power, the court said in a one-sentence announcement Sunday on its microblog account. The announcement also was carried by the government's Xinhua News Agency.
• Until his downfall, Bo sat on the ruling party's 25-member Politburo, and he is only the third politician at that level of seniority to be tried on graft charges in recent decades.
• Political analysts say the charges against Bo appear to be carefully crafted to get rid of a political liability without raising questions about how the ruling party's unchecked power enabled his misconduct.
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34 dead, dozens missing in sunken ferry in Philippines while more than 750 rescued
• CEBU, Philippines (AP) -- Divers plucked two more bodies from a sunken passenger ferry on Sunday and scrambled to plug an oil leak in the wreckage after a collision with a cargo ship. The accident near the central Philippine port of Cebu that has left 34 dead and more than 80 others missing.
• Cebu Governor Hilario Davide III said 751 passengers and crewmen of the MV Thomas Aquinas have been rescued after the inter-island ferry was in a collision late Friday with the MV Sulpicio Express Siete then rapidly sank off the Cebu pier.
• Stunned passengers were forced to jump in the dark into the water after the captain ordered the doomed ferry abandoned.
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