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...forward looks as murky now as it did 18 months ago. Despite Moeen's insistence that elections will go ahead as planned by the end of this year, the optimism that first greeted his arrival on "1/11," as the epochal event is known there, is gone. Ever since achieving independence from Pakistan in 1971, impoverished, unfortunate Bangladesh has slumped down its path toward democracy. When not under the rule of autocratic generals - as it was twice in the past - it has been the province of two mammoth, bickering political parties, the Awami League (AL) and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party...
...woman glared at us as a companion pushed her back up the fence she had just come down. Within three or four minutes--minutes freighted with visions of broken bones and heart attacks--all of them were safely back in Mexico. They would surely try again once we were gone...
Back in Moruongor, as the day gets to its hottest, two men shout that the hand-outs have gone all wrong. "The ones who need food most can't fight for it," says one, Losike John D'Porox. "Widows, orphans, they should be fed first." Then everyone else, he asserts, should be enrolled in food-for-work programs, improving the roads, digging water ponds and farming. "That's what can help people," he says - and he may be right. Long-term, WFP's only way out of Karamoja will come when the region is self-sufficient once again. Getting there...
...forces sent two suicide bombers into a prison in the southern Afghan town of Kandahar; they were followed by 30 motorcyle-riding militants, who systematically broke down every cell door in the jail. The audacious raid freed an estimated 400 Taliban fighters, and many of them appear to have gone right to work. Within three days, hundreds of insurgents swarmed through the key district of Arghandab - and escaped prisoners were among them, says district chief Ghulam Farouq. As the Taliban gained a footing in the villages, NATO and Afghan army troops launched a counter operation aimed at stopping the insurgents...
...ground, now that he has been forced to turn down his irrigation drip. Diedrich says the California drought could cost him 750 acres, which he estimates to be worth $3 million. He gestures to the land that his family has been farming for decades. "This will all be gone," he says. "And there may not be a 'next year...