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...Hyperinflation, estimated at 1 million to 2 million percent per year, is running rampant in the economically devastated country. Zimbabwe's central bank cannot keep up with the demand for ever larger bills and the paper to print them...
...bank guard fired at Dawyyat, inside the glass cabin of the bulldozer, possibly wounding him. Then, an off-duty soldier, fresh from basic training, jumped on the vehicle and fired three shots at the driver. "He yelled 'Allahu Akbar' and hit the gas," recounted Pvt. Moshe Plesser. Soon after, two SWAT officers rammed their motorcycles into the bulldozer, slowing it so that they were able to clamber aboard and pump three more bullets into the driver...
...home in an Arab neighborhood on the slopes of East Jerusalem to be bulldozed as punishment. In the past, courts have ruled that razing homes of any Israeli resident is illegal - although the tactic has often been used in retaliation for terror attacks perpetrated by Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza, Dawyyat was an Arab citizen of Israel. Police say they will stop attempts by Palestinian militants to politicize Dawyyat's funeral by banning all but close family from attending the burial...
Bowing to a request from the German government, a German company that has been supplying Zimbabwe's embattled regime with bank note paper has stopped its deliveries, further increasing pressure on President Robert Mugabe...
...doing thus far? Not great. The former Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty St., empty since the attacks, still hasn't been demolished. Just safeguarding it has cost the government more than $150 million, and it took the lives of two firefighters in a construction fire last year. The rest of the 16-acre site is a tangle of more than 100 contractors and subcontractors without any real central guidance. Twin Towers developer Larry Silverstein has, in the view of critics, spent too much time litigating and not enough time cooperating. The Environmental Protection Agency first dangerously downplayed health risks...