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...high school canteen in The Hague - the country's first such incident - provoked shock, outrage and a public debate on violence and security in schools. The suspected killer, a 17-year-old boy, fled the scene but later gave himself up to the police. Caught on the Run EGYPT Police arrested two members of Italy 's ultra-leftist Red Brigades group convicted in absentia of terrorist activities by Italian courts. One of the two, Rita Algranati, was sentenced to life in prison for her role in the 1978 kidnapping and murder of two-time Prime Minister Aldo Moro...
...tested if Talat succeeds in bringing both sides to the negotiating table next month. "The Turks will have to appear realistic, and reasonable to the world this time around," says Turkish Cypriot commentator Metin Munir. "There is not much room, or time, left to maneuver." No Foul Play EGYPT Egyptian and French officials ruled out terrorism as the cause of a plane crash early Saturday that killed all 148 passengers and crew, blaming a technical fault. The Boeing 737 belonging to Egyptian charter company Flash Airlines was carrying mostly French tourists returning to Paris . It plunged into...
...make our own destiny rather than react to those we fear. Still, at a time of year when we are allowed to be optimistic, we should remember the poet for more than that lesson. The son of a Greek family from Constantinople, Cavafy was born in 1863, in Alexandria, Egypt. He wrote in both his native Greek and English, but he was an Alexandrian and proud of it. He was, in other words, a symbol himself - of a time when the Middle East was not shaped by thugs like Saddam, but could enfold many religions and languages, and breed from...
...small vegetable stall his parents passed on to him before his 20th birthday. He gets advice on the best escape route from someone in the neighborhood whose relative has just made the journey. In the past, fleeing Somalis would travel by boat through the Suez Canal, but now that Egypt has tightened its border controls, the preferred route is overland to Libya, then by boat. His mother tries to talk him out of it, telling Abdi Salan that the trip is too risky and life will be hard even if he makes it. "I'm a man now," he tells...
...must get his bearings quickly, and make his next move. He has arrived at a smugglers' bazaar: Libya has become - in just the past six months - the most active hub in the people-trafficking trade between Africa and Europe. While authorities in other developing countries such as Albania, Egypt and Tunisia have stepped up border patrols, the Libyan government has turned a blind eye to smugglers. Unable to absorb its own foreign population (in a country of just 5 million, there are 2 million immigrants) and hoping to pressure the European Union into lifting economic sanctions, Libya has allowed camps...