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...killing - the A.U. soldiers are ill-equipped and backed by the weakest of mandates - but it creates another few months in which the world can dither. Amid the diplomatic flurry, and as evidence emerged of a new government offensive in Darfur - Human Rights Watch says government planes indiscriminately bombed civilian-occupied villages in rebel-held areas last week - one powerful voice was noticeably silent: China's. Khartoum and Beijing are close. The China National Petroleum Corp. owns 40 percent - the largest single share - of the consortium that pumps some 330,000 barrels of oil a day from Sudan...
...four feet deep, scattered body parts, and most chillingly, a bra tangled in tree branches above the vehicle, where it was hurled by the strength of the explosion. Although coalition forces were the immediate target, the size and range of the blast at a busy intersection suggests that the civilian casualties were intentional. Massoud Circle, where the attack occurred, is located near an apartment complex housing thousands of families, where many windows were shattered...
...what happened to American Airlines Flight 77? Where did all the real, documented people on it go? Assassinated? Relocated? What about eyewitnesses who saw a plane, not a missile? And what are the chances that an operation of such size--it would surely have involved hundreds of military and civilian personnel--could be carried out without a single leak? Without leaving behind a single piece of evidence hard enough to stand up to scrutiny in a court? People, the feds just aren't that slick. Nobody...
...played for audiences worldwide over a seven-decade career; in Varanasi. A Muslim who performed at countless Hindu ceremonies, Khan was seen as a symbol of Indian inter-religious unity and secularism. He played at the young country's first Independence Day celebration in 1948 and received its highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna (Jewel of India), in 2001. DIED. Joe Rosenthal, 94, combat photographer for AP who in 1945 captured what became the iconic image of World War II?U.S. soldiers raising the Stars and Stripes atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, site of some...
...scale of Lebanon's destruction has provided opportunities as well as heartbreak. According to the Lebanese government, the war not only has killed 1,183 people, wounded 4,055 and displaced 974,184 but has also caused $3.6 billion in damage to residential buildings and civilian infrastructure like bridges, roads, power stations, telecommunications systems and airports. Hizballah has pledged to rebuild apartment buildings and entire villages within three years; it has sent civil-affairs teams wearing hats that read JIHAD FOR RECONSTRUCTION. The group's offensive is most evident in ruined towns like Srifa, south of the Litani River, where...