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...come, however, from abroad. In contrast to the previous offensives in South Waziristan, there are signs of closer cooperation between Islamabad and Washington. Just hours before Ghani's Sunday announcement, a CIA-operated drone fired missiles near Makeen, Mehsud's hometown. Five suspected militants were killed. It was the 20th such strike this year. Since February, the U.S. has stepped up attacks on Mehsud and his allies, broadening its range of drone targets across the tribal belt. The day before the drone strike, Pakistani air-force jets were pounding the same area in retaliation for the recent terrorist attacks...
...anything surprises me, it's that it took them so long.' KAISER KUO, a Beijing-based blogger, on the Chinese government's blocking access to websites like Twitter two days before the 20th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square...
...MushroomheadEd RT @dlayphoto: RT @NJDemocrat: Foreign press ban? Not in the age of twttr. That's so 20th century #iranelection & they said twttr was a joke
...money, and titles passed through the female line; clan lands continue to be passed through titled women and first daughters today. The islands were part of the Spanish East Indies before being sold to Germany in 1899 following the Spanish-American War, and continued to change hands throughout the 20th century. Japan was awarded control in the post-World War I Treaty of Versailles, and set about confiscating and redistributing tribal land, replacing the matrilineal system with a patrilineal one. After World War II, Palau became a U.S. trust territory; it gained independence in 1994, but still relies...
...seem to have been so prophetic. "There is an existential crisis for the socialists. Voters do not want socialism, they want a market system that works," says Corien Wortmann-Kool, who was re-elected for the Dutch center-right CDA party. "But the socialists are still rooted in the 20th century. They have not yet broken away from their ideological tradition of opposing capitalism...