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...fires caught many Greeks on their summer holidays when they usually return to their ancestral homesteads to visit their parents and relatives. Athanassia Karta Paraskevopoulou, a 35-year-old mother of four, was among them. But last Friday, her holiday came to a tragic end while trying to flee a wildfire that thrust into her village, Artemida, in the highlands of Zaharo. Rescue teams found her burned remains in an olive grove strewn with 23 other corpses. "Her arms," said Vassilis Mitros, among the first locals at the site, "were wrapped around the bodies of her four children." Other victims...
...current (socialist) mayor have also done their fair share to improve Parisian life like Vélib, a new initiative which offers very cheap rental bikes around the city, and Paris Plage, transforming the banks of the Seine into Tahitian beaches for those who can’t flee to Saint Tropez for their summer tanning (although a French friend complained that the whole “93”—one of the more troublesome Paris suburbs–crashes the scene). The impact is already visible across the city. Paris, once dead during the summer...
...early June, the Indonesian authorities made a stunning capture. After pursuing a suspected militant to a safe house in central Java, police say they shot him in the leg as he tried to flee. The target was Abu Dujana, the alleged head of the military wing of the extremist group Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.). That same day, the police made more busts. A squad of Indonesian commandos stormed into a home in Yogyakarta, nabbing Zarkasih, whom the authorities say is a veteran jihadist and J.I.'s overall leader. And just a few months earlier, the police uncovered an arsenal of deadly...
...train itself in the administration of Palestinian law. Mushtaha and his officers spend most of their time delivering subpoenas and telling the families of wanted men to turn the suspects in. In Gazan neighborhoods, everyone knows everyone else, and there's no place to hide: crooks certainly can't flee to Israel...
...wrist it has received for past breaches. The most scandalous case in recent years involved the deaths of 15 Saudi girls at a school in Mecca, Islam's holiest city, in 2002. Eyewitnesses said that when a fire broke out, mutaween refused to allow the girls to flee, or rescuers to go inside, on the grounds that the students were not wearing the required garments to preserve their modesty. The government, however, absolved the commission of blame...