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...holdouts before Congo's first free elections in more than 40 years, which are scheduled for June 18. And the repercussions of that campaign - which since last fall has caused around 1,200 deaths a day, mostly from war-related illnesses - are being felt thousands of miles away, as European governments debate how many troops to commit to the region before the election, and what their precise role should be. For villagers, the Katanga campaign has been calamitous. Flying low over Lake Upemba in northern Katanga in mid-March, hundreds of people could be seen encamped on slivers...
...started talking, the officer ordered an attack. They knocked my husband off his feet, started beating him up and then dragged him away." In the melee that followed, many protesters were beaten up, stunned by percussion grenades or affected by tear gas. Last week, both the U.S. and European Union condemned Lukashenko's regime, with the E.U. banning him from travel to member states of the Union and the Bush Administration calling for the early release of those detained since the election. Belarus, said the E.U., was a "sad exception" to the condition of democracy in Europe...
...Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a post that Cardinal Ratzinger held under John Paul for 24 years. When Benedict gave the job to Levada, a friend since the two worked together in Rome in the early 1980s, most Vatican insiders were shocked, having expected a European intellectual heavyweight in the post. Message: Benedict knows the kind of ship he wants, and on key personnel moves, he?ll take his own counsel above...
...should have wasted away and died, like your hopes of a fulfilling life. But like the human appendix, this strange conceit remains, an evolutionary left-over from the time when people cared about where they lived. It’s important to realize that house pride is like Eastern European nationalism: a lot of slogans and flag-waving that mask an undercurrent of broken dreams. It’s true that every house has its pros and cons. Some, for example, serve grape juice (little known fact). Some houses have huge dogs (jackpot!), and some have aggravating children (miserable!). Currier...
...rejection of Sunday's election in Belarus, which was judged by European monitors to be fraudulent, may also be taken in Moscow as a reminder of what it perceives as Washington's effort to reverse Russian influence in former Soviet territories. The "pastel" revolutions of recent years in Ukraine, Georgia and elsewhere have fed a sense that the U.S. is pushing its own influence into Moscow's traditional sphere of influence by supporting democratic rebellions against pro-Russian strongmen such as Belarus' leader Alexander Lukashenko. Russia has pushed back by pressuring allies in Central Asia to distance themselves from...