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Attorneys for a network of law schools asked a federal appeals court to immediately halt enforcement of the Solomon Amendment in a brief filed Monday...
...others for U.S. counterinsurgency forces in Afghanistan: monitoring the airwaves for enemy communications. From the southeastern part of the country, the U.S. picked up a signal from the phone of a small-time Taliban commander, Mullah Wazir, whose band was suspected of ambushing road crews in an effort to halt reconstruction of the pitted Kabul-to-Kandahar highway. When Wazir's phone flickered to life, the U.S. traced it to a mud-walled fortress near the town of Ghazni. The U.S. command at Bagram air base outside Kabul quickly dispatched an A-10 Warthog fighter plane, able to lay down...
...same situation as you." Finally, after three hours, the motor kicks over and the truck starts rolling north again. Roughly three days later they cross into Libyan territory. A few hundred kilometers later - and after 10 days in the truck - the driver brakes to a halt and tells the Somalis to hop off the back. One of the smugglers points north toward a distant, green landscape: "There is Kufra," he says, the oasis outpost in southern Libya. For more than an hour, the Somalis walk along an unpaved road toward what Abdi Salan fears is nothing more than a mirage...
...others for U.S. counterinsurgency forces in Afghanistan: monitoring the airwaves for enemy communications. From the southeastern part of the country, the U.S. picked up a signal from the phone of a small-time Taliban commander, Mullah Wazir, whose band was suspected of ambushing road crews in an effort to halt reconstruction of the pitted Kabul-to-Kandahar highway. When Wazir's phone flickered to life, the U.S. traced it to a mud-walled fortress near the town of Ghazni. The U.S. command at Bagram air base outside Kabul quickly dispatched an A-10 Warthog fighter plane, able to lay down...
...world. Pelts are sold at fur auctions, made into consumer goods and then distributed further. In China alone, at least 2 million domestic animals are killed annually for their fur, according to the Humane Society International. With a handful of parliamentary colleagues, Stevenson is pushing the European Commission to halt the illicit trade. "I'm not suggesting that the Chinese change their ways," says Stevenson. "But if we close Europe to this trade, they'll only have Russia and their home market." Within the E.U., only Italy has so far applied a unilateral ban on dog and cat fur. Making...