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...immediately rejected the plan; the republic has been effectively self-governing since the early 1990s and has close ties with Russia. A Breach of the Peace SUDAN U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he was "deeply disturbed" by an attack near the town of Shangil Tobaya in the western Darfur region in which more than 100 people are believed to have been killed. African Union monitors said the Sudanese air force was responsible for the aerial bombardment, in breach of a truce agreed between the government and local rebel factions last year. Annan said the incident was "the latest...
...legal challenges are exhausted. Peace Progress SUDAN More than two decades of civil war formally came to an end as the government and southern rebels signed a peace deal that will install insurgent leader John Garang as Vice President. Khartoum announced that fresh talks with rebels in the western Darfur region would start within weeks. Making Nice NORTH KOREA Pyongyang indicated it was willing to resume talks on its nuclear program, following a four-day visit by a U.S. congressional delegation. Weathering Disaster UNITED STATES Rain- and snowstorms killed 28 people in California and caused an estimated $100 million...
...formulated a theory." That's rough treatment of an author who has long reveled in his talent for switching literary gears - from philosophy to investigation to fiction to screenwriting. But his detractors say his desire to weave between genres and disciplines, and his need to crusade from Bosnia to Darfur, is precisely the problem. They argue that Lévy has failed to do the mental work of constructing and defending philosophical systems the way earlier titans like Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-Paul Sartre did. "Previous generations of French intellectuals justified their entire careers on their...
...believe this will end Sudan's problems. Two decades of fighting have turned southern Sudan into a wasteland, yet nearly a third of the 3.5 million people displaced by the war are expected to return there this year. The deal doesn't address the conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan, which some have called genocide. "Unless Congress sees movement on Darfur, and fast, they're not going to be in the mood to appropriate a lot of money for the rest of Sudan," says U.S. Ambassador William Bellamy. "I'd go ahead and drink a glass...
...roughly as hard in meteorological terms, lost a few dozen lives. Or consider the worldwide AIDS epidemic, in which the impoverished countries of sub-Saharan Africa, with just 11% of the world's population, have 64% of the cases and 74% of the deaths. Or consider that both Darfur, Sudan, and the U.S. Southwest are suffering from deep and persistent droughts. In Sudan, the droughts have led to hunger, disease and bloodshed, while in the U.S. the droughts have led to economic loss but not loss of life...