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...military statement said the raid was directed at a "top illegal armed group commander directing widespread death squad activity throughout eastern Baghdad." At least 4 people were killed and 20 injured in the raid, which included air strikes from U.S. aircraft. It is unclear whether the targeted militia leader was captured. Although the U.S. said Iraqi special forces played the lead role in the raid, al-Maliki claimed the Iraqi government had not been consulted...
...school? For boys it was a nightmare—we suddenly found ourselves interested in girls but realized that they were suddenly taller than us. But for girls it was worse: Cliques, talking behind backs, and backstabbing friends made female alliances more difficult to follow than those in Middle Eastern politics...
...period in which the main flows of immigrants were quite large. They were from different parts of Europe than the older immigrants such as the Irish, the Germans and the French. We began to receive heavy immigration in the 1890s and it was still running strong in 1915 from Eastern Europe, southern Italy - the fringes of Europe. The different source country was a part of the controversy at times. They were Lithuanians, they were Romanians, they were Italians from the southern parts of Italy and they were Jews from parts of Russia. How were they stereotyped and why? There...
...many times you turn them over, just won't be pinned down. Whatever it was that happened in Hungary 50 years ago is one of them. Did the short-lived government of Imre Nagy, a Communist reformer, mark the moment when it became clear that Soviet domination of Eastern and Central Europe could not last? Did it give people hope, however deep they buried it? Or did Nagy's fumbling inexperience - coupled with an insecurity in Moscow, still coming to terms with Stalin's death and the revelation by Nikita Khrushchev of his crimes - play into the hands of hard...
...anything for charity." Lest this all sounds too good to be true, the group is not free from controversy. In 2001, Tata Finance sacked its managing director and five other senior managers over alleged financial irregularities. In January, Tata Steel's plans to build a mill in the eastern state of Orissa went tragically awry when police fired on protesters who were accusing the state government - acting as a broker in the development - of making profits on the sale of their land. Twelve were killed. But to shed 40,000 employees at Jamshedpur, Tata Steel offered to pay their current...