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Monsoon rains aren't new in Jakarta. But with at least 50 people dead and more than 340,000 forced to flee their homes, this year's flooding is the worst in recent memory-and blame is falling on the city government for failing to make infrastructure fixes that might have prevented the devastation. Waterways like central Jakarta's Ciliwung River routinely overflow in heavy rains, despite government pledges to clean them up. Work on a floodwater canal in East Jakarta has dragged as residents complain about poor land compensation. And unchecked development is eroding green areas critical to absorbing...
...Stockholm. "Then someone will say: 'They've left; and they have left; and they have left.'" Raya, who did not want her last name published for fear her parents in Baghdad would be targeted, says she is the 11th doctor at the city's main maternity teaching hospital to flee. "Only my senior [doctor] is left," she says. Raya sits in a government asylum office in a Stockholm suburb, surrounded by her two small children and five other family members who have fled with her. Days after abandoning their large family house and garden, they now await...
Every Iraqi's flight is a boon for people smugglers. Sweden grants asylum freely, but Iraqi refugees need to get to the country first; for that, they need a fake European passport. Most Iraqis flee first to Jordan; from there smugglers arrange flights to Istanbul, where it is easy to find illegal European Union passports - "red passports," as the Iraqis call them. Thus equipped, it's into the E.U. and on to Sweden. Suad Turky, a 29-year-old Shi'ite religious student from Baghdad, paid a smuggler $10,000 to secure a false passport and a ticket to Stockholm...
...naked man walking down the street, your first instinct might be to flee. But for thousands of men in central Japan each winter, there's only one acceptable response: strip down to almost nothing and go chase him. That's the way it has been done in the city of Inazawa for centuries. The event is perhaps the most famous of several hadaka matsuri, or "naked festivals," held around Japan annually...
...sounds like science fiction, but it's real--a heat ray that can zap a mob and force people to flee without inflicting permanent injury. On Jan. 24 the U.S. military unveiled its Active Denial System, right, which shoots a beam of electromagnetic radiation calibrated to cause an intense burning sensation (similar to touching a hot lightbulb) but no long-term damage. Unlike traditional brute-force tools of dispersal--such as batons and rubber bullets, which can maim or even kill--a new wave of high-tech crowd-control devices promises to keep the peace without causing casualties...