Word: havoc
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...Stress, first posted May 1 by Justice (Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay) on the website of rap artist and producer Kanye West, is a seven-minute video depicting a group of French adolescents, visibly of African and North African descent, wreaking havoc as they swarm from their neglected homes in the outskirts or banlieues of Paris into the heart of the city, all to a grueling, nightmarish electro beat. Followed by a camera crew from their housing project to Sacre Coeur to Charles de Gaulle airport, they harass women, break a bottle over a café owner...
...Joint Typhoon Warning Center, the danger of more storms hitting the region in Myanmar most severely damaged by the cyclone that struck on May 3 has not yet passed. Equally disconcerting is the little relief granted to the people of the region since the cyclone wreaked havoc, as the Burmese government is currently restricting large-scale international aid. The junta—the ruling government in Myanmar—has refused offers from the United States and other nations to send in search-and-rescue teams, food, and other crucial aid. With a death toll estimated at more than...
...have helped drive oil prices up almost a quarter this year, reaching a fresh record of almost $120 on Monday. An end Tuesday to the two-day strike over pensions by refinery workers in Scotland - which had earlier halted much of the North Sea's oil production and wreaked havoc with gas supplies in Scotland - won't do a nervous market any harm. But there's little sign of oil prices easing significantly in the short-term; Chakib Khelil, president of OPEC, the oil producers' cartel, admitted Monday he couldn't rule out prices hitting...
...some observers fear Sunni insurgents allied with al-Qaeda may seek to capitalize on the situation by wreaking havoc in other neighborhoods where U.S. and Iraqi forces are paying less attention. Last month, American troops found a letter in a farmhouse northwest of Baghdad, purportedly signed by an al-Qaeda operative, which called on insurgents to sow disunity among the nation's Sunni fighters who have begun working with the Americans...
...Federal Aviation Administration is hoping the safety-related groundings of commercial airplanes that caused havoc for 300,000 passengers around the country last week won't continue into the heavy summer travel season. But the man charged with protecting federal whistle-blowers tells TIME he's got additional cases coming down the runway that could do just that. And the FAA warns that sloppy maintenance work - like that which resulted in the grounding of more than 3,000 American Airlines flights last week - could occur through the end of June as the FAA wraps up a two-phase inspection process...