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Michael J. Esdaile, a Canadian second-year PhD student in Middle Eastern History, sustained minor injuries and was forced to miss the Harvard-sponsored International SOS (ISOS) shuttle out of the Lebanese capital, according to E. Roger Owen, the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies...
...Esdaile was not evacuated by ISOS because he missed the meeting at the rendezvous point,” Owen, a professor of Middle Eastern history, said Thursday...
...Federal authorities, who also allege such other crimes not related to the Wire Act as failure to pay U.S. gambling excise taxes and mail fraud, aren't buying those arguments, however. "Illegal commercial gambling across state and international borders is a crime," U.S. Attorney Catherine L. Hanaway of the Eastern District of Missouri said Monday. "This indictment is but one step in a series of actions designed to punish and seize the profits of individuals who disregard federal and state laws...
...more than a 15 ft. span over a dry creek. But when the Israelis took it out two days ago, they also cut a water main that fed some 45 villages in the Kharrob district. "They have no way of getting water, from here all the way to the eastern part of Sidon," said Ghaleb Abu Howdan, 34, a food supply salesman, who lives in the house next to the now mangled bridge...
...There's no international law that bans the development of missiles for self-defense and the sale and shipment of missile technology. A 1987 voluntary accord known as the Missile Technology Control Regime did not include China or any Middle Eastern nations; in fact, the only Asian country that has signed it is Japan and the only African country that has signed it is South Africa. But with Security Council passage of two provisions that "require" U.N. members to prevent the transfer of "missile and missile-related items, materials, goods and technology" to North Korea and to prevent North Korea...