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For much of the past year, most Democratic lawmakers have supported Obama's plan. But with Obama's election, two key Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee have begun to entertain the possibility of another solution: Developing a new government-wide policy different from the field manual to regulate interrogation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rollback on Torture? Not So Easy for Obama | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

The Hebron events are unlikely to affect the outcome of Israel's election in February. Polls show conservative Likud Party candidate and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holding a solid lead over acting Prime Minister Tzipi Livni, with Defense Minister Ehud Barak - who ordered the Hebron raid on the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israeli Settler Youth on the Rampage in Hebron | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

The militant settler threat had prompted the Israeli government to hesitate for three weeks before implementing the court order on the Hebron eviction, but whether the raid emboldens the government to act against other settlements constructed outside of Israeli law remains to be seen - and will be determined, in no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israeli Settler Youth on the Rampage in Hebron | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

Jos, more than 300 miles north of Nigeria's largest city Lagos, is located in the Nigeria's 'middle belt' between the mostly Christian south and Muslim north of Africa's most populous nation, and its diverse population had lived in relative peace until religious riots in 2001 left 1...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religious Violence Rages in Nigeria | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

Controversy swirls over whether hired thugs were involved in the incident or whether the police and soldiers themselves exacerbated the problem. The state commissioner for information, Nuhu Gagara, admitted that local politicians and businessmen had paid youths to stir up violence, even buying weapons, including firearms for them. This tactic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religious Violence Rages in Nigeria | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

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