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...high cost of doing nothing to improve road safety. On May 1, China's first road-safety laws came into effect. The new legislation tightens rules governing such offenses as speeding and drunk driving, and also raises penalties significantly?for example, imposing a lifetime driving ban on drivers who flee the scene of an accident, and sentences of up to seven years in prison for those who kill someone while driving drunk. Something had to be done. While mainland China possesses just 1.9% of the world's vehicles, last year it accounted for 15% of total global traffic accidents. (More...
...that was softened after several Security Council members, including China and Russia, objected. As many as 50,000 people have been killed in fighting and attacks by the militia, known as the Janjaweed, in the Darfur region of western Sudan. More than a million have been forced to flee their homes. The Sudanese, who deny they are backing the militias, say they will do everything they can to comply. "Because should we fail to do so, we know our enemies would not hesitate to take other measures against our country," said Osman al Sayed, Sudan's ambassador to the African...
...Depending on its location, it can scoot back to the high seas or to the P.N.G. side of the fishing zone, or at least ditch its catch and equipment. In this case, the 7-m wooden fishing boat (designated a "Type 3") is too far inside Australian waters to flee. Instead, the Customs crew thinks, it will try to hide behind large rocks or in mosquito-infested mangroves. The boat's presence is unquestionably illegal. But the foreign fishers have few alternatives. Almost all of them are from Merauke, a village in Indonesia's Irian Jaya, about 145 nautical...
...Still, despite Sharon's claim that "wild" anti-Semitism leaves French Jews no option but to flee to Israel, the Anti-Defamation League's own study of European anti-Semitism released in April suggests that there has actually been a 10 percent decline in anti-Semitic attitudes in France over the past two years. (Sharon himself commended the French government for taking steps to fight it.) To be sure, anti-Semitic attacks have become a worrying reality for many Jews in France, and a tiny, but growing minority have taken Sharon's advice. Still, the reason French Jewish leaders have...
...votes in last July's election but was short of winning the two-thirds of parliamentary seats required to govern alone. Two days before Hun Sen was sworn in, military police surrounded the home of party rival Chea Sim, acting head of state and CPP president, forcing him to flee the country...