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...backs Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek in his fight against Japanese occupation. After World War II, Mao Zedong's Communists defeat Chiang's Nationalists, who flee to Taiwan. Mao founds the People's Republic of China, and more than two decades of isolation from the West begin...
...many prayers before deciding to flee her West Papuan home with her husband and three-year-old twin sons, Ferra Kambu says she found divine guidance. Surrounded by plastic bags containing their meager possessions in the Melbourne hotel room where the family is staying, the 36-year-old women's rights activist, one of 42 West Papuan asylum seekers released from Australian immigration detention last month on three-year protection visas, says the realization came to her clearly: "I was shown by the Lord that Australia has been given a role as the hand of God in helping to finally...
...economic future may depend on whether they can fix what is broken here. Bush met with Fox three times in his first 100 days, blowing away the old once-a-year tradition. Fox dreams of a day when the border will open and his countrymen will no longer flee to survive. As Fox told Ernesto Ruffo, his top aide on the region, "Put holes in the border...
...West Bank perforating it into dozens of tiny prisons. If this was a “security fence,” it would have been erected on the Green line, which separates Israeli and Palestinian territory. Life in the occupied territories has become so unbearable that Palestinians either flee to other countries, or retaliate violently, thus giving Israel the “excuse of security” needed to justify its military occupation...
...almost midnight when Junelyn finds her daughter hiding behind the Top 10. At the sight of her mother, the girl prepares to flee. But in a low voice Junelyn begs her daughter to come home. After five tense minutes of urging and promising that an abusive stepfather is out of their lives, Junelyn finally persuades her daughter to come with her - and then cries with relief. Later, the daughter says she has been on a tuna boat; she spent the previous night in a hotel room with Atto, a 20-year-old Asian sailor from the Sea Chase, who paid...