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...also by the 1995 U.S.-brokered Bosnian peace deal, which established two separate administrations, one for Croats and Muslims, the other for Serbs. Although no official census has been taken since 1991, Sarajevo presents an increasingly Muslim face to the world. Thousands of Orthodox Serbs and Roman Catholic Croats fled the city during the war and have not returned. "The ethnic division has been really successfully done," says Srdan Dizdarevic, president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina. "Kids are going to a mono-ethnic school, living in a mono-ethnic neighborhood and when they start...
...then came disease. While the drug war may have given a few people the jitters, the swine flu sent many more running for their lives. As news of Mexicans sputtering to death on hospital beds shot round the world, tourists fled resorts in packed planes while many more upcoming holidays were canceled. At the Riviera Nayarit, hotel occupancy in May plummeted to 33%, compared with 70% in the same month of 2008. In some other resorts, it was down to single figures. And most of the visitors who came were Mexicans, not foreigners. "It was like first getting a cough...
...Ghailani, a Tanzanian believed to be 35 years old, is accused of scouting the American embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, assembling bomb materials and escorting a suicide bomber in advance of the attacks, which killed 11 in Dar es Salaam and more than 200 in Nairobi. He later fled to Afghanistan, where he allegedly served as a bodyguard and cook for Osama bin Laden and helped forge documents for al-Qaeda. The former Islamic cleric was captured in 2004 after a 10-hour gunfight in Gujrat, Pakistan, and transferred to Gitmo in 2006. No trial date has been...
...China and asked to transmit newspaper clippings of events, news of Tiananmen having been suppressed in China itself. Slow-driving protest convoys of motor vehicles took to the streets at night. Wild rumors flew around - one held that Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, a student sympathizer, had fled to Guangzhou and was preparing to mobilize southern divisions of the People's Liberation Army in an uprising against the north. At rallies, the song "We Love Freedom" gave way to the more sobering "Blood-Stained Aura." This had been composed two years earlier as propaganda, commemorating the Chinese soldiers...
...tell them to back off.' DANIEL HAUSER, a 13-year-old cancer patient from Minnesota, on critics who say he is too young to determine his course of treatment. Hauser briefly fled the state with his mother to avoid court-ordered chemotherapy, which violates his religious beliefs...