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...rising as the day wore on. "Seeing the number of wounded and from what the people tell me, I estimate the death toll to be around 1,000," said Dr V Shanmugaraja. Early in the morning on May 12, the same hospital, located in the village of Mullivaikal, was hit again, and some of those injured in the weekend attacks were killed, according to pro-LTTE websites claiming the heavy artillery fire came from the government side...
Kisin's search started three years ago, while Mitrovica's started two years ago, according to Bloxham, and the offers were made before the financial crisis hit...
...these breakaway Christians, a populist former general named Michel Aoun, is betting that the only way to secure a Christian future in Lebanon is to look east toward the rising power of Shi'a Islam. It may seem far-fetched now, but there may come a day when Christians hit the Arab streets to welcome not a Pope from Rome, but an ayatullah from Iran...
...something happened on the way to the EaP's founding summit - namely, the global recession. Many of the countries worst hit by the economic downturn are the same 12 nations that have joined the E.U. since 2004, most from Eastern Europe. Now not only are those post-Cold War newcomers - who used huge inflows of European development aid to build up U.S.-style economies - most in need of more emergency funding to prop up their credit-dependent markets, but they are also viewed as migrant threats to other E.U. nations already facing escalating unemployment. Not surprisingly, such factors have fueled...
This was the second time Benedict, 82, has gotten decidedly mixed reviews on his handling of a Holocaust-related visit. He had visited the Auschwitz concentration camp in 2006 and poignantly asked, "Where was God?" when the Nazis carried out Hitler's Final Solution. But the same speech hit several sour notes in the ears of Jewish leaders, as the Pope failed to cite anti-Semitism as a cause of the genocide. Instead, he wondered if Christianity wasn't ultimately Hitler's final target, and summarily disposed of the complicated moral question of German society's "collective responsibility" by blaming...