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...Afghan parliament, he encourages his former Taliban comrades to reconcile with the government of President Hamid Karzai. But he can't visit his constituency in the southern district of Zabul because security is terrible and he's received too many assassination threats. Rocketi is grateful for foreign aid, but frustrated that donors regularly cough up so much less than promised that the country's development can't really take off. "We live like beggars," he says. It's widely agreed that Afghanistan's national army and police, despite some improvements, are far too small and weak to take on powerful...
...prop up his government - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called him an "extraordinary leader" on a lightning visit to Kabul in June - but instability and unkept promises have sapped his appeal at home. New hospitals and schools stand half finished because money has run out, or because aid agencies have removed their workers for fear of attack. Even in Kabul, the city that has profited most from international aid and a relative stability, many say life has changed little in the last five years. That second Afghanistan is stony soil for ISAF. As troop levels increase in the south...
...Whatever its scope, international attention on the catastrophe could benefit dictator Kim Jong Il, whose neighbors have toughened their stance toward the Stalinist state since it test-fired seven ballistic missiles in July. Seoul, which suspended food shipments after the tests, quickly reversed course, promising $10 million in aid earlier this month. And while Washington has favored isolating the North to pressure Pyongyang into dismantling its nuclear weapons and missile programs, cutting off aid in the face of a humanitarian crisis could be difficult. "There will be more pressure on the U.S." to change course if the reports prove true...
...Washington hasn't resumed the food aid it suspended last year. Pyongyang remains equally defiant and shows no signs of returning to talks aimed at ending its nuclear program. Unknown millions of North Koreans might be struggling to survive, but Kim Jong Il is still sitting pretty...
...often suffering from deep cold; many have splinters in their extremities and bruises from the contact and rubbing on the boat." One bright spot is the cooperation and solidarity he finds from anonymous volunteers, who are increasingly flying down to the Canaries to help, and even the impromptu aid of local vacationers. Lemus recalled when one recent boat washed ashore near a popular beach, several locals rushed over to help the immigrants, "warming them up with their bodies, giving them cover from the sun. It's happened several times, and it's beautiful...