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...KILLED. SHAH AMS KIRIA, 73, Bangladeshi opposition figure and former Finance Minister, along with four others; in a grenade blast at a rally for the Awami League party; in Laskarpur, northeast Bangladesh. The party whose leader, Sheikh Hasina, narrowly escaped a similar bombing in the capital Dhaka last August, called a nationwide general strike over the weekend to protest the killings. Subsequent riots in Dhaka and other areas led to more than 100 arrests...
...eyes of his irreverent, scrawny cat. "What I wanted to do is use humor and irony to explore the daily lives of religious folk," says Sfar, "which is a change from the rather militant antireligion sentiment in France today." An English translation is due in the U.S. in August...
...appoint a new prime minister who will in turn choose a cabinet. The prime minister and cabinet must be confirmed by the Assembly, giving Iraq its first democratic government since the fall of Saddam. It will, nonetheless, be a caretaker government, primarily responsible for drafting a new constitution by August 15. If that draft constitution is approved in a nationwide referendum scheduled for October 15, it becomes the basis for a third nationwide vote two months later, this time for a permanent government. If the draft fails to win approval, the process will be repeated in 2006. But according...
What caused the outburst of meteorological fury? This time not much of the blame goes to the usual suspect, El Ni??o, which has produced only a slight warming of the tropical Pacific since August. A more significant culprit, say meteorologists, is a less well-known phenomenon called the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), named after the pair of scientists--Roland Madden and Paul Julian--who discovered it in 1971. The MJO is a globe-girdling disturbance that sweeps across equatorial waters at intervals of 30 to 60 days. Under its influence, says climatologist Wayne Higgins of the National Oceanic...
...District of Columbia, which has been asked to pick up a $17.3 million tab for police, construction and emergency services. Still, a party's a party, and Washington is good at dropping its partisan gripes (and wartime sobriety) to celebrate. A preview: --By Jeninne Lee-St. John and Melissa August...