Word: faction
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...their allies - known collectively as the Left Front - were an influential part of the ruling coalition. Now they have been relegated to the fringes of Parliament. "This necessitates action and rethinking," said Prakash Karat, general secretary of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), the main Communist faction, speaking to reporters soon after the polls. (See pictures of Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi on the campaign trail...
...sticking point is democratic freedoms, particularly the right of journalists to report the news. Prime Minister Tsvangirai declared that all the banned foreign media organizations - such as CNN and BBC - were now free to operate from Zimbabwe. But Mugabe's faction has not made operating easy, especially for the local reporters the foreign media often hire to help gather information...
...This is about a ban on degrading games in which killing or injury are simulated," Wolfgang Bosbach, deputy chairman of the Christian Democratic Union's (CDU) parliamentary faction, tells TIME. "In general, we need tougher gun laws because we have to protect the public from the misuse of weapons, and we also need to take our laws seriously." (See pictures of America's fascination with firearms...
...speaking about Iran and have also called for her release. The tragedy of an individual American has suddenly found a place on a negotiating agenda crowded with issues of global significance, such as Iran's nuclear development program and its support of anti-Israeli militant groups. Meanwhile, the conservative faction in the United States - as voiced on the Wall Street Journal opinion page - has already used the Saberi case as a cautionary tale for what happens when the U.S. tries to engage with Iran...
...British soldiers were killed in an ambush while accepting a pizza delivery at an army base near Belfast, an attack for which the dissident splinter group the Real IRA claimed responsibility. Just two days later, a policeman was murdered while sitting in his unmarked patrol car. A separate faction, Continuity IRA, said it had orchestrated the killing; two suspects have been arrested. Some speculate that local tensions over an increase in British troops may have prompted the shootings. Catholic and Protestant leaders in the region's power-sharing government called the attacks the work of terrorists...