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...William "Kip" Ward, a respected officer who is the Army's only four-star African-American general. Ward has boots-on-the-ground experience in Africa: he was a commander during the U.S.'s ill-fated mission in Somalia in 1993 and also served as a military representative in Egypt in 1998. Ward is currently the deputy commander at European Command, and as such oversees U.S. military relations with 43 African countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exclusive: The Pentagon Plans for an African Command | 8/24/2006 | See Source »

...which tracks a basket of stocks from such countries as Taiwan, South Africa, Turkey and Poland, is up 89% over the past two years. That trounces the S&P 500's 18% gain. A dip in stocks worldwide this spring shook emerging markets the hardest--India dropped 29%, Egypt 37%--but even that falloff didn't dampen the enthusiasm more than temporarily. According to AMG Data Services, money moved into emerging-market mutual funds and ETFs at the rate of $3 billion to $5 billion a month in the quarter leading up to the correction. Those funds lost money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: global investing: The Allure of Over There | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

...likely to excuse the attacks as those over 45. A recent Pew study found that 15% of British Muslims identify themselves with fundamentalists. And among those British Muslims surveyed, a remarkable 81%--a percentage higher than that for Muslims not just in France and Germany but also in Egypt and Jordan--said they thought of themselves as Muslims first and citizens of their native country second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Such Lovely Lads | 8/13/2006 | See Source »

...waters. Egyptians have long called their port city, Alexandria, the jewel of the Mediterranean, but it has lately earned another reputation as "the outstanding champion of pollution," according to Mifsud. Factories dump waste water into the port's bays and into Lake Maryut, 1 km from the sea. Egypt's government blames the cargo traffic from the Suez Canal and oil tankers from the Persian Gulf. "We not only have to manage Egypt but the whole world's waste," says Mohammed Borhan, director general of coastal and maritime zone management for the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency. Pollution, like overfishing, threatens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mediterranean's Tuna Wars | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

...mission and rules of engagement are acutely tricky. Rice declared that no U.S. troops would join; they're already overstretched in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. French President Jacques Chirac said he might be willing to commit French forces, but not through NATO. Soldiers from Muslim countries like Turkey and Egypt would be a plus, but so far none have materialized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Hizballah Can't Be Disarmed | 7/31/2006 | See Source »

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