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Nepalese Peace Government, rebels sign accord...
After a decade of fighting, Maoist rebels last week signed a peace accord and vowed to drop their weapons until elections early next year, when Nepal will vote on whether to remain a monarchy...
...Once Haniyeh had secured the militants? accord, he notified Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who passed on the offer to the Israelis. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was told that if he pulled troops out of Gaza, the Palestinian militants would halt their rocket fire. For Palestinians and Israelis, the truce offered a respite from a brutal and inconclusive mess in Gaza. In last week?s offensive, over 30 tanks rolled into Gaza, and Israeli forces used aircraft to fire missiles killing suspected Palestinian commanders. The Palestinians tried to counter this assault by sending a swarm of civilians to the house...
...Gaza trip a few years later. Suspected Syrian agents assassinated Bashir Gemayel days before his presidential inauguration. His supporters retaliated by slaughtering hundreds of Palestinians in the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in Beirut. The U.S. dispatched troops to quell the unrest, while Reagan's envoys negotiated a peace accord between Israel and Amin Gemayel who had taken his brother's place...
...computer-generated artificiality; the shimmering water in front of the Fountain of Youth and the wild space imagery around the floating orb are utterly entrancing. All this is backed by Clint Mansell’s masterful original score. Transcendent and a stand-out piece of music of its own accord, the film could not be complemented better. Despite what some may find disappointing in “The Fountain’s” plot, there is enough originality and audio-visual splendor to make it a worthwhile journey for anyone. Even if Aronofsky set out to create an epic...