Word: halt
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...goal is a cease-fire that would halt Israeli air, naval and ground operations in Lebanon. But getting there requires the fulfillment of several preconditions, including an agreement by Lebanon, Israel and - apparently - Syria as well as European nations on the deployment of a NATO intervention force in Lebanese territory along the Israeli-Lebanese border. Unlike the present UNIFIL peacekeeping mission, which in practice does little more than monitor events, the new force would be empowered under Chapter VII of the United Nations charter to intervene against "threats to the peace, breaches of the peace and acts of aggression...
...While the bombardment of Beirut airport makes front page news, small strikes like these are spreading disruption over a larger area. "The entire logistics of the country are coming to a halt," Minister of Public Works Mohammed Safadi told TIME...
...dialogue. But of course we will not negotiate our undeniable rights with anyone." --MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, Iranian President, whose refusal to halt Iran's nuclear program led the U.S., Russia, China and E.U. powers to refer the case to the U.N. Security Council for possible punitive action...
...again. That was the first thought that flashed through Manish Shah's mind when he heard news of the bombs that brought Bombay's evening commute to a screeching halt. Before he even knew the details, before the first images of bloodied bodies spilling from shattered train carriages flashed across television screens, Shah was dialing his friends from the bank where he works, hoping to hear the voices of those who had taken the express trains home that evening. He was met with silence...
...have wreaked havoc with the traditional fishermen's earnings. "The European market has totally changed in just two or three years," says Sevilla, director of Almadrade Capo Plata, one of Spain's few remaining traditional tuna-trapping companies. To combat the tuna ranches, Sevilla and other trappers need to halt their prey long before it reaches the Mediterranean's open water. From late May, shoals of tuna begin their annual migration from the Atlantic through the Strait of Gibraltar, before spending one month breeding in the Med's temperate water. The traditional fishermen's contest against the industrial ranches...