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...possible." But U.N. officials said the province will remain part of Serbia until a political settlement can be reached. In the meantime, it will continue to be administered by the U.N., in tandem with the new assembly. MACEDONIA Shock Waves The fragile peace process received further setbacks after a bomb exploded in the border town of Tetevo and the main ethnic Macedonian party, the Social Democratic Alliance, withdrew from the governing coalition. The blast went off outside the office of the E.U.'s monitoring mission on the eve of excavations of suspected mass graves. Inspectors later found human remains thought...
...victims has risen sharply since the Taliban left. That the hospital functions at all is a tribute to its staff: nobody has been paid in six months. Among the eight patients in one of the trauma wards are an 18-year-old whose face was crushed when a U.S. bomb destroyed his house, a 10-year-old boy shot by a stray bullet and an angry shepherd named Khan. He says that when he was tending his sheep last week, 25 armed men working for another of the city's commanders, regional security chief Hazrat Ali, drove up and began...
...hottest real estate in Switzerland right now might well be the country's estimated 261,418 bomb shelters. Ever since the cold war, the Swiss have been required either to have a bomb shelter in their homes or to pay roughly $900 for a place in a communal bunker. (The 1962 law states: "For every Swiss, a shelter.") Over the years, as fears over nuclear attacks faded, these shelters have morphed into storage closets, wine cellars, saunas, bars, bowling alleys and - at least in one case - a massive pizza oven...
...Swiss authorities are urging the country's 7.2 million residents to convert these spaces back into actual bomb shelters - complete with a 14-day supply of bottled water and canned food. And certainly, the design requirements of these structures should reassure anyone concerned about the threat of terrorism...
Besides causing some doubt in Hollywood about how to cast thrillers in the next few years, the terrorists' attacks had an immediate impact on movies scheduled for release. Collateral Damage, which stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a father seeking vengeance after his family is killed in a bomb blast in a skyscraper, was pulled from distribution, as was Big Trouble, a comedy - that's right, a comedy - about a bomb being smuggled onto an airplane. And technicians quickly worked to erase scenes of the World Trade Center towers from trailers for Spider-Man, while production of Men in Black 2, which...