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Off the hilly resort island of Bornholm, a tiny speck of Denmark that rises from the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Poland, the crew of the Danish trawler Soraya was catching cod one March morning. As the men hauled their fish on board, Theis Branick, 24, went beneath the net...
It sounds like a bad joke, or perhaps the world's biggest public-relations challenge. The Russian firm AtomStroyExport (ASE) is trying to sell nuclear reactors to Finland - one of the countries worst affected by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. It's a tough job. On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl...
Before the Columbia disaster, the capsule plan "wasn't getting a lot of support," says one Congressional source. "The idea of fishing men and women out of the ocean, after we'd been landing people on the runway at the Kennedy Space Center for so many years, just seemed like...
from government forces. By late last week, Twagiramungu had filed a petition with the country's Supreme Court seeking to nullify the vote. Independent observers confirm the arrest and disappearance of opposition figures in the runup to polling; a dozen Twagiramungu supporters were detained in Kigali on the eve of...
from acting leader Moses Blah, former deputy to now-exiled President Charles Taylor. Businessman Gyude Bryant was appointed chief of the new administration, where he will oversee a cabinet drawn from the outgoing government, rebel groups and opposition parties. Fully elected leaders will take over by January 2006. With armed...