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...neighboring Terengganu state - ahead of a national election that could be next year. Pas narrowly beat a member of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's United Malays National Organization to win the state assembly seat. AUSTRALIA Runaways An Irish backpacker, Jonathan O'Shea, was charged with helping two boys flee the troubled Woomera detention center in South Australia. The boys - whose asylum bid was rejected by the British consulate in Melbourne - were handed over to police and then flown back to Woomera. Australia's Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock said 14-year-old Alamdar Bakhtiyari and his brother Muntazer, 12, were neither...
Some call it "The Monster." One of the worst blazes recorded in the American West, the fire in eastern Arizona has consumed nearly half a million acres. All but 5,000 of 30,000 residents forced to flee the inferno were allowed to return after firefighters secured the area around the commercial hub of Show Low. But for more than 400 households, home was a charred ruin. The fire continued licking westward, devouring a canyon below the town of Forest Lakes...
That makes the Germans angry. "We are supposed to be sharing information with the Americans," says the German official. "Do they want to cooperate or not?" But American counterparts were angry at Germany for allowing several al-Qaeda suspects to flee in the weeks after 9/11. And some German officials concede they should have arrested Zammar last October...
...million residents swept him back into office, and no wonder. On his watch, Davao's per capita crime rate has sunk to the nation's lowest. The local tourism board calls it "the most peaceful city in Southeast Asia." People once fled the place in fear; now they flee other trouble spots in the Philippines?for Davao...
...Glen Envil, a 34-year-old Montagnard who landed last week in Raleigh with her husband and three children, says she was forced to flee Vietnam because "life was just getting worse and worse." Farmland that had been passed down through generations of her family was seized by the government. Vietnamese migrants, now the majority in the highlands, pocketed the profits from coffee and rice crops that rightfully belonged to her family. "Our children go hungry sometimes," she says. "Without land how can we get money? How can we get medical care?" In the end, Envil and her family grew...