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...activists built support in the U.S. Congress for legislation that would have armed the SPLA and punished the oil companies backing the government in Khartoum. SOMALIA Militia Battles At least 28 people were killed and more than 25 injured in fighting between rival militias in Mogadishu's residential Medina district. Many of those who died were civilians. Thousands fled their homes after indiscriminate gunfire and shelling broke out between the forces of Muse Sudi Yalahow, one of the former capital's most powerful militia leaders, and his former ally Omar Mohammed Filish. Somalia has had no effective administration since...
Peckish? Walk south a block to the Chinese Quarter where large, red gates frame the entrances to a district of hole-in-the-wall noodle shops ($3 noodles-the cheapest in the city!). The Chinese rushed into the country when Japan, fearing the spread of Christianity, closed its doors to Westerners. Along with the Dutch whose trade-focused Protestants were considered less threatening than Portugal's Catholic missionaries, the Chinese did business with the rest of the country through Nagasaki's port, though both groups were sequestered in one area of town. Nagasaki's traditional dish-a soup of thick...
...military spokesman. The army said that rebel Forces for the Defense of Democracy entered Burundi from Tanzania. INDIA Assam Ambushes Seven policemen were killed in a suspected rebel attack in India's northeastern state of Assam. Police said militants ambushed an armed police convoy in the central district of North Cachar Hills, spraying it with automatic gunfire. An unknown number of other policemen were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the attack but police said that they suspected the Dimasa Halam Dago, a group that is fighting for a separate homeland in central Assam. In the neighboring Cachar district...
...Afghan province of Uruzgan, north of Kandahar, is brutal territory. Its villages have been racked by decades of war, and the summer heat can reach an inhospitable 120[degrees]. A few weeks ago, Abdul Rahim, a local chieftain in Uruzgan's Deh Rawod district, reclined on a pillow in the shade of a thatch awning and spoke of what it would take to bring hope to this blighted land. It's a simple list, really: a few roads, schools and hospitals. "Rebuilding this country is the way to deny it to al-Qaeda," he told TIME...
...says, "we want the same quality of design to be reflected in the places where people live, not just where they work and shop." To prove the point, the Sterling Prize-winning architect Will Alsop is already at work on a master plan for the run-down Cardroom district in north Manchester. After decades in London's shadow, Manchester is growing in confidence - a confidence expressed, as it was in the city's glory days, by demanding the best of its citizens, its leaders - and its architects...