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...majority Sinhalese and minority Tamils, which has killed some 70,000 people since 1983, merely settled to a low simmer, with hundreds dying in skirmishes over the years and full-fledged battles breaking out in 2006 and continuing into 2007. But the abandonment of a political solution has burst whatever remained of the dam that held Sri Lanka's bloodshed in check. In the first days of this new year, fighting has killed more than 150 combatants on both sides, including the Tigers' head of military intelligence. On Jan. 8, a roadside bomb outside Colombo killed D.M. Dassanayake, Sri Lanka...
This is what it looks like when the seams burst on a threadbare campaign: Over a hundred people, crushed together between the Mike Huckabee bus and the front door of the Barley House restaurant Monday afternoon on Main Street in Concord...
...hour after the Republican caucuses began, cable news called Iowa for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who ended the evening with an impressive nine point victory over Mitt Romney, the one-time frontrunner with deep pockets. The ballroom at Huckabee's headquarters at the Embassy Suites had already burst into cheers: "We like Mike! We like Mike! We like Mike!" Before long, the candidate emerged, backed by his most photogenic supporter, Chuck Norris, in brown lumberjack plaid, to soak up the moment and warn of the long road ahead...
...Kyamba church just outside Eldoret where hundreds of Kikuyu villagers had sought shelter. The mob barricaded the church doors with mattresses and set them alight. The flames spread through the building and, according to reports at the time, between 30 and 50 people were burned alive before the fire burst through the doors and the rest were able to escape. The Kikuyu, the biggest of Kenya's 42 tribes, became targets after the Kikuyu President Mwai Kibaki was sworn in for a second term in what overwhelming evidence suggests was a rigged election. For Kenya's other tribes, angry...
...candidates into regrouping with them. But the three leading contenders were not going to let that happen; all three groups started calling at the small knot of neighbors who had supported the remaining contenders. "We've got good sandwiches,"one man from the Clinton contingent shouted, evoking a big burst of laughter. "We've got free food...