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There was nothing particularly surprising about the international outrage over the reports of the wholesale slaughter of 50,000 dogs in rural China as part of a poorly executed campaign to curb the spread of rabies; some of the dogs, after all, were taken from their owners and beaten to death with sticks on the spot. China's official news agency has reported that up to half a million more dogs are expected to be exterminated in a separate cull over the next few days. "China's slaughter of dogs is a disproportionate, inhumane and ill response to rabies...
...suspects of collaborating with al-Qaeda. Mogadishu locals, who had cheered the demise of the warlords, began to fret when their new Islamic leaders cracked down much as the Taliban did in its early days in Afghanistan: young men watching World Cup football from Germany were beaten, and men wearing long hair were forced to have it cut. Talks between the Islamists and the fragile interim Somali government - elected in neighboring Kenya more than two years ago but powerless ever since and holed up in the southern Somali city of Baidoa - also stalled...
...beat him every day, he said, before releasing him to go to Lebanon."Where will I go now?" he asks. He can't return to Sudan, where he fears Arab militias will kill him, and he says he won't go to Syria because he fears being arrested and beaten again...
...prepared to show mercy. In the case of Hizballah, especially, the Israelis are going well beyond retribution, taking an opportunity to degrade the organization's capabilities and, perhaps, cripple the group permanently. Said Defense Minister Amir Peretz: "The goal is for this to end with Hizballah so badly beaten that not a man in it does not regret having launched this incident." Most Israelis know the offensive has come at a heavy price--to civilians on both sides, to Lebanon's infrastructure and to Israel's reputation abroad. But from the government's point of view, it is necessary...
...through her door and torture her, or strap her to the gurney, mutilate her and carry her off to Baghdad. But even though Iraqi men she did not believe were doctors came into her room and stared down at her as they spoke to her caregivers, she was never beaten. "No one even slapped me," she said...