Word: clampdowns
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...killed 58 foreigners in a 1997 attack at an ancient temple in Luxor. That was the last assault in a five-year onslaught by Egyptian extremist factions such as Islamic Jihad and Gemaat Islamiyah, whose leaders declared a truce after being crushed by the Mubarak government's harsh security clampdown...
...candidate for Minister for European Integration after failing to identify the governing body of the E.U. during questioning in parliament. Opposition politicians predicted early elections. Terror Resurgent SAUDI ARABIA Despite government assurances that al-Qaeda sympathizers in the kingdom have been greatly weakened by a 19-month clampdown, two suspected suicide bombings targeting the Interior Ministry and a special forces base injured more than a dozen. Police investigating the attacks later killed 10 alleged al-Qaeda militants, including two of the kingdom's most wanted terrorists. A Fresh Start AFGHANISTAN The Cabinet of President Hamid Karzai met for the first...
...killings, rape, burning of villages have taken place," Pronk told a press conference in Khartoum last week. Some human-rights advocates are concerned that if the U.S. fails to intervene after Powell characterized the conflict as genocide, the significance of the convention will be undermined. That and Sudan's clampdown on aid provision in retaliation for the declaration could make it a major diplomatic mistake on Powell's part, the advocates fear. "If that's the case, then we come out of this with the worst of all worlds," says a U.S. Agency for International Development official...
...continuing clampdown on reformers has left Saudi modernizers distraught. "If you have a society draped with religion, of course you will reach this point of extremism," says Turki al-Hamad, a Saudi novelist and newspaper columnist. The voices of moderation, al-Hamad says, have almost no public spaces in the kingdom--no broadcast networks, no radio stations and few mosques--in which to voice their views. The extremists, meanwhile, feel no such constraints. The day before an attack by al-Qaeda militants on a compound in Khobar in late May that killed 22 people, the imam at the mosque...
...took the lead in the first round of the presidential election, winning 42.5% of the vote. He faces a runoff on April 28 against opposition candidate Sasko Kedev, who placed second with 34.1%. The election was held following President Boris Trajkovski's death in a plane crash in February. Clampdown on Dissent ARMENIA Using batons and water cannons, police broke up a rally of thousands of demonstrators in Yerevan calling for the resignation of President Robert Kocharian, seriously injuring 30 people and detaining 115. Opposition leaders, who claim Kocharian rigged his re-election last year, launched another rally...