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...peril. NTV learned this to its cost last year, and TV-6 became a prime target when it adopted the same stridently critical approach to Kremlin policies. Since Putin endorsed the war against terrorism after the Sept. 11 attacks, the West has been mostly silent about Putin's continued crackdown on the media and in Chechnya...
...Line India test-fired a second missile in less than a week but denied it was linked to increased tension with neighbor Pakistan. New Delhi said its troops killed five Pakistan-based militants attempting to cross into Indian-held Kashmir in the first major incursion since Pakistan promised a crackdown on such groups. Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee rejected calls by Pakistan for new talks. JAPAN Cabinet Kerfuffle Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi scrambled to replace Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka after impetuously sacking her and her deputy following parliamentary squabbles. When former unhcr chief Sadako Ogata turned down the post, Koizumi...
...General Musharraf has launched a crackdown on militant Islamic groups in order to save Pakistan from its drift to extremism. How have ordinary Pakistanis responded...
...government rounded up dozens of political and religious dissidents and put some under house arrest. Later that month, 14 ethnic-minority men accused of leading antigovernment protests in the Central Highlands were given prison sentences of up to 12 years. Analysts say Manh either ordered or allowed the crackdown to consolidate his power base and to appease party hard-liners. "Every Secretary-General has to concede that ground," says Vietnam expert Carlyle Thayer, a professor at the Australian Defense Force Academy. Asked whether he envisions allowing alternate political parties?which are now illegal?Manh told TIME that communist rule...
BRITAIN Antiterror Swoop A court in Leicester charged two Algerian men with involvement in the al-Qaeda network and police arrested another 17 in the largest crackdown on U.K. terror suspects since Sept. 11. Nine people were detained under new antiterrorism legislation, while another eight were held for possible immigration offenses. Police said the latest arrests were not directly linked to Sept. 11, but one of the two remanded in custody, Baghdad Meziane, faces charges of directing and financing undisclosed al-Qaeda operations and inciting an act of terrorism abroad...