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...short-haired woman with a brisk but cheerful manner. "We try to keep a constant lookout, but it's hard because our attention is usually on the children." A year ago, she recalls, a teacher in Narathiwat province was shot in his classroom, in front of his fourth-grade pupils; his killers were two youths in school uniforms. Even Ban Bukoh's annual sports day has been scrapped-such gatherings are simply too risky now, she says. A bomb exploded in a playground in Yala province last month, injuring two youth soccer teams. Prapa doesn't know who the militants...
...flowers of her beloved Texas Hill Country, former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson passed away at her home in Austin from natural causes. A few weeks earlier, she had been admitted to a hospital for tests after suffering from what a family member said was a low-grade fever...
...Mongolian part-time model whose naked body was allegedly blown up by military-grade explosives. A former political adviser to Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister charged with abetting the murder of his ex-lover. Two government security agents whom the prosecution alleges carried out the killing of the 28-year-old Mongolian woman. A loyal wife who, despite allegations of her husband's involvement in the plot, has worn a T shirt to the murder trial that says MRS. RAZAK BAGINDA on the front, AND PROUD OF IT on the back. Welcome to what may be the most sensational case...
...four men park their sport-utility vehicle in the back lot of a five-star hotel, size me up carefully and make their offer: I can sample some high-grade cocaine, and then buy 7 kg for about $78,000 - roughly one-quarter of what I can sell it for on the streets of London, Amsterdam or elsewhere in Europe. It has taken me - a stranger in town - just one afternoon to locate a sizable drug deal...
Last September the judicial police raided one of the Colombian-rented houses in Bissau and found 674 kg of high-grade cocaine. They drove the drugs and the two Colombian tenants to the police lockup, says Gabriel Madjanhe Djedjo, the judge who handled the case. Within an hour of the arrests, he says, military officers surrounded the compound, demanding the drugs and threatening to shoot their way in. The police relented, and the soldiers loaded the cocaine - stored in 1-kg packets - onto a pickup truck and drove it to the crumbling Treasury building, where they placed...