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The weekend brought further reminders of the bloody rifts that still crisscross the country. On Saturday, the top official in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq voiced anger over what he described as provocative troop movements by the central government around Kirkuk, the disputed oil-rich city. The...
Eating cured meats may lead to an increased risk of leukemia in children and young adults, according to a Harvard School of Public Health study recently published in the BioMed Central Cancer journal. The study found an association between consuming smoked or cured meat and fish more than once a...
Midway between Sicily and North Africa, the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa has long been a prime landing spot for illegal immigrants. Last month, protests erupted over plans to build a second detention center on the island, as locals fear that an already damaged beach tourism industry will be further...
"The drought will no doubt exacerbate rural unemployment, because arable land is what most migrant workers resort to when they lose their jobs in the cities, and now their last option is under what's probably the most severe threat in decades," says Zhang Xinghua, a researcher at the Chinese...
Albright points out that Washington "has used up whatever leverage it had with Pakistan in this matter." He says U.S. efforts to prevent further leaks of nuclear technology from Islamabad have concentrated on intelligence gathering, rather than ensuring that previous offenders, like Khan, were adequately punished.