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...NEPAL Maoist Talks The government met for the first time with Maoist guerrillas who have waged a five-year antimonarchist insurgency. A joint statement released after the meeting near Katmandu described the talks as positive. Negotiators said they would meet again in a fortnight to discuss ways of ending the conflict, which claimed about 1,800 lives before a truce was called in July...
...highly tribal atmosphere that characterizes competition football, fans of different teams rarely care to admit that they might have something in common. Yet over the past fortnight, supporters of Japanese J-League sides Urawa Red Diamonds, Cerezo Osaka and Gamba Osaka have indeed found themselves on common ground, over an uncommon event?losing a player to the high-profile, highly competitive European leagues...
...flashed their smiles at the most congested soirEe in recent memory. When Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai sat for a Q&A about his career, one of the audience members asking questions was Faye Dunaway, still glamorous 34 years after Bonnie and Clyde. This Riviera fortnight always has enough stardust to dazzle the dourest soul...
...Fund estimates that some 200,000 children a year are trafficked in West and Central Africa. Girls are affected worst; most end up as domestic workers or prostitutes. Boys are forced to work on coffee or cocoa plantations or as fishermen. The problem hit the news over the past fortnight when a Nigerian-registered boat that Benin authorities and UNICEF said was carrying as many as 200 slave children was turned away from Gabon and Cameroon. When it arrived back in Benin a few days later, only 43 children and teenagers were onboard, some with their parents...
...attacks almost everything in the body except bone, destroying the immune system in fast-forward and causing organs to melt down, hemorrhage and then bleed out through the body's orifices. The period between infection and the onset of sickness is three to 14 days. Death follows within a fortnight. Ebola-Zaire, the first strain identified, kills 90% of those infected. The strain that hit Uganda is called Ebola-Sudan; it struck twice in Sudan in the late 1970s and disappeared until this latest outbreak. It kills roughly 50% of those infected. Ebola seems to jump species, can mutate...