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...stones are still mostly cut in Antwerp, New York and Tel Aviv, where many of Surat's companies have set up branches in which Indian diamond cutters are absorbing skills from local experts. Arjav Mehta, whose family owns Blue Star, says his company has hired 15 master cutters in Belgium and Israel: "There's a lot we're learning from them." Another ambition among the Palanpuris is for Surat to dethrone Antwerp as the world's center for the diamond trade. That will take some doing; Gujarat, the state in which Surat is located, suffered a blow to its international...
...Although relations between the Palanpuris and the Hasidim are cordial, Surat's diamond traders admit that India's sudden rise to prominence has caused some resentment in Israel and Belgium. One Israeli analyst frets that Surat's bustling workshops are flooding retail stores with diamonds, which could depress prices for years to come. ABN AMRO's Patnaik points out, however, that the market for diamonds could expand quickly as the burgeoning middle classes of China and India develop more of a taste for diamond jewelry. To make sure they secure a foothold in the Chinese market, some Surat businessmen have...
...Front, a Marxist group on the U.S. and E.U. terror lists. Though it is not doctrinally close to al-Qaeda, experts think the group has been goaded into planning more grandiose attacks by al-Qaeda's success. Sixteen other alleged members were caught in coordinated raids in Italy, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. In Italy, police launched a nationwide "preventive" sweep late Friday, taking 90 mostly Moroccans into custody. And prosecutors talked publicly about a small but significant development in their anti-jihadist efforts: their first turncoat. Riadh Jelassi, 33, was sentenced to jail for 31/2 years, and wrote prosecutors...
...because there are no troops in remote areas to enforce drug laws. As Karzai told aid donors, "We're just taking baby steps toward handling our security environment." Hopefully, the generous pledges of aid will allow him to take larger strides. - By Charles P. Wallace Allies in the East BELGIUM The accession of seven East European countries to NATO was marked by a flag-raising ceremony at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels and celebrations on the streets of the new members' capitals. The expansion, the biggest...
...series Now Who's Boss? Jonathan Tisch, CEO of Loews Hotels, goes to work in one of his own hotels as a room-service waiter and delivers a meal to a guest from Belgium. The Belgian is unfazed to see that he is being videotaped. In America, he must assume, you always get a reality-TV crew with dinner...