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Dubai in Peril The crisis in Dubai is the crisis of unsustainable folly [Dec. 14]. It's amazing how eager banks have been to pour money into a country that sucks in vast amounts of energy and water to build a playground for the very rich. At its heart there is a sickness, with tales of dreadful working conditions. But what else can be expected of a place where the rich can party but human rights for the poor are not on the agenda? Derek Smith, LONDON
Although on Dec. 21 Mexico City became the first Latin American metropolis to vote to legalize same-sex marriage, two Argentines led the charge to the altar. On Dec. 28, Jose Maria Di Bello and Alex Freyre became the first gay couple in Latin America to wed. Because Argentina's constitution does not declare that marriage must be between a man and a woman, the men asked for and were granted special permission from the governor of the southern province of Tierra del Fuego, to which they traveled to be pronounced husband and husband...
...death sentence of a British man convicted of smuggling heroin into the western province of Xinjiang. London had sought clemency for Akmal Shaikh, 53, arguing that he was mentally ill and had been exploited by other smugglers. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was "appalled" by the Dec. 29 lethal injection, which Chinese officials defended as being in accordance with...
Pakistan's minority Shi'ite community was rocked by a suicide attack on a religious procession in Karachi during the holy festival of Ashura. The Dec. 28 bombing, which killed at least 40 people, was the third in a week to target Shi'ites. Sunni extremist groups were accused of orchestrating the attack, and government officials have asked Shi'ite clerics to delay upcoming processions for safety reasons. Critics of President Asif Ali Zardari pointed to the events as evidence of his inability to combat increasing sectarian violence in the country...
...Thai government began forcibly repatriating more than 4,000 ethnic Hmong to their native Laos on Dec. 28, despite expressions of concern from the U.N. and foreign governments and pleas from the refugees, who say they face persecution at home. The Hmong fought on the side of the U.S. in the conflicts that ravaged Southeast Asia in the 1970s, and a handful of rebels are still waging an insurgency against Laos' communist government. Although 158 deportees are legitimate refugees, as declared by the U.N., Bangkok refused to continue providing them asylum. Some 300,000 Hmong have fled to Thailand since...