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...tribe in South Waziristan took on Mehsud and Uzbek groups aligned to al-Qaeda, the Pakistan army backed him. After his men killed 250 Uzbek fighters, the army entered a nonaggression pact with Nazir and his associate Hafiz Gul Bahadur. But Nazir continued to attack U.S. forces across the border, and was targeted in air strikes. Enraged, Nazir and Bahadur shed their differences and formed a new alliance with Mehsud earlier this year. Now, all three groups could be lined up against the Pakistan army when it presses ahead with its counter-insurgency operation in South Waziristan...
...Mogadishu falls, the consequences will be very grieving, he said. He also appeared to refer obliquely to al-Shabaab threats to attack Nairobi, saying, "Kenya has been affected by this obvious terror." Like Ethiopian leaders, however, Odinga stopped short of publicly committing troops. Reports from Somalia's western border with Ethiopia claimed that Ethiopian troops had entered Somalia on June 22, despite a statement from Addis Ababa that it would not enter the country without an international mandate. Ethiopia invaded Somalia in late 2006 to topple a previous Islamist government...
Returning home one spring five years ago from a secret visit to Beijing in his armored, fully wired train car, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il got an unnerving, firsthand demonstration of the potential downside of technology. A huge explosion ripped through the Ryongchon border station, and some officials initially thought it was an assassination attempt triggered by a cell phone. As it turned out, the fireball was more likely the result of two trains' colliding nearby, possibly as a result of miscommunication about changed schedules stemming from Kim's clandestine travels. But regardless of the actual cause, that still...
...There are already hundreds of North Korean software engineers working in China, in border cities and elsewhere, according to Heejin Lee, a professor at Yonsei University, who has conducted fieldwork in the region. Most work as subcontractors for South Korean, Japanese or Chinese firms - sometimes in joint ventures - and Lee says there are numerous clandestine firms. The North Koreans earn high marks for their scientific and mathematical skills and come substantially cheaper than their Chinese counterparts - $300-$500 a month, one-third the cost of a Chinese engineer, or half the price of an Indian one, he says...
...Hardly anyone believes that Iran will ever again have a Shah - especially one who resides in Maryland and isn't allowed to cross the Iranian border. But he would like to return home as a welcomed citizen and share his roots with his wife and his three Iranian-American daughters. (Read "State Television Becomes a Focus for Iranian Anger...