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...Today, Sandhya sits batting away mosquitoes in a sparse wood cabin, part of a sprawling Maoist cantonment in the southern district of Chitwan. She believes victory is at hand. A peace process triggered by mass protests in April 2006 against the autocratic rule of Nepal's King Gyanendra brought the Maoists into the political mainstream, paving the way for the extraordinary transformation of a country ruled for two and a half centuries by Hindu kings into a secular republic. Both the Royal Nepalese Army and the Maoist guerrillas - the civil war's bitter foes - returned to their barracks and camps...
Nancy Tauber, a committee member who was elected on a pro-Fowler-Finn platform, praised the superintendent for his skill in leading the district while weathering attacks from his opponents...
...States shall allocate district level delegates and alternates in proportion to their percentage of the primary or caucus vote won in that district, except that preferences falling below a 15 percent threshold shall not be awarded any delegates...
...Police picked up the trail that led to the weekend arrests last summer when they raided a house in a rundown Istanbul district that revealed a stockpile of weapons and explosives. A number of low-ranking military officials were subsequently detained. The military, a powerful behind-the-scenes force in Turkey, weighed in and a gag order was placed on investigators. Little more was reported until a dramatic 3 a.m. raid last week on houses across Istanbul, in which 40 people were detained...
...Just before the meeting at Downing Street, a group of gunmen took around 250 schoolchildren hostage in Pakistan's north-west Bannu district. Then, as Brown and Musharraf discussed how the president was going to crack down on extremism in Pakistan, the gunman - who, according to Musharraf, only ran into the school to escape from police - freed the children and turned themselves in to the tribal elders who were acting as negotiators. Brown might have seen the peaceful outcome as either an omen or perhaps real-world proof that Musharraf is, in the words of the prime minister...