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...Prada and Dior as well as Ying Kee Tea House, where guests can stock up on oolong blends to relieve jet lag. (There's a kettle in the room back at the hotel.) Cheung also times the hourlong walk to coincide with a touristy treat: the Jardine's gun's noon salute, dating back to the early days of the territory. 133 Leighton Road, Hong Kong; tel. + 852 3477 6888; concierge.lphk@lanson place.com...
...head of Nurbank, Abilmazhen Gilimov, now in police custody and under investigation for alleged embezzlement, appeared on Kazakhstan National TV last Saturday to repeat his court statement claiming that Aliyev had him and his colleague handcuffed and hauled to a basement. Gilimov says that Aliyev then fired a gun over their heads and threatened to kill them, saying: "In this country I can get away with anything." There has still been no sign of Gilimov's deputy, Zholdas Timraliyev. When the kidnappings were first reported, the Presidential son-in-law had offered an $83,000 reward to anyone who found...
...When fierce gun battles broke out on the streets of Tripoli a week ago pitting Fatah al-Islam militants against Lebanese security forces, few residents of Lebanon's second largest city had any taste for the shadowy faction which has rarely been out of Lebanon's headlines since emerging late last year...
...didn't know how to react. Barbara had worried that she would lose him to gangs and drugs in high school. But he cleaned up and enlisted in the Army after graduation. It wasn't long before De Leon was shouldering a heavy SAW (squad automatic weapon) gun on his broad 6-ft. 2-in. frame through the rugged passes of Afghanistan with the 10th Mountain Division...
...gunner in a scout unit, Aaron Genevie often rode through Baghdad popped up out of the top of his humvee, manning a belt-fed automatic machine gun. Gunners are the eyes and ears of the driver, constantly scanning the horizon for threats. In Baghdad's congested streets, they are also traffic cops--waving cars out of the way, shouting at drivers who get too close. That's what Genevie was doing the day he died, telling his driver to maneuver around an Iraqi national-police checkpoint when a roadside bomb went off and killed him instantly...