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...Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace were consolidated into one office headed by Justice and Peace chief Italian Cardinal Renato Martino. Likewise, French Cardinal Paul Poupard, who headed the Pontifical Council for Culture, will now also oversee the operations of what had been the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue. In the short term, two top prelates - Japanese Cardinal Stephen Fumio Hamao and British Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, respectively - lost their Curial positions in the double mergers. It also signals a long-term commitment to trim bureaucratic...
...Eyes Is Back. DIED. Bismillah Khan, 90, ascetic Indian musician whose name became synonymous with the shehnai, the oboe-like instrument he played for audiences worldwide over a seven-decade career; in Varanasi. A Muslim who performed at countless Hindu ceremonies, Khan was seen as a symbol of Indian inter-religious unity and secularism. He played at the young country's first Independence Day celebration in 1948 and received its highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna (Jewel of India), in 2001. DIED. Joe Rosenthal, 94, combat photographer for AP who in 1945 captured what became the iconic image of World...
...integrating the 300 million Arabs living between Morocco and Bahrain was achieved in January when Arab states signed a Middle East free-trade agreement that had been in the works for decades. Some countries have slashed tariffs to zero under the pact. Already, according to Egypt's Trade Ministry, inter-Arab trade rose 22% in 2005 compared with a 4% rise three years earlier. Last month an Arab trade-ministers meeting in Cairo took up the technical yet crucial issue of adopting common product standards. "There is a reshaping of the landscape," says Hassan Heikal, CEO of EFG-Hermes Holding...
...were accused of detonating eight bombs in Bombay in late 2002 and 2003, killing 70 people. Lashkar-e-Toiba, meaning army of the pure, has fought Indian rule in Kashmir since the early 1990s, and is believed to have links with al-Qaeda. Largely funded by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency in the '90s, LeT was designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. in 2001. It was subsequently banned by Pakistan, but it has nevertheless been implicated in several attacks on Indian government buildings and in a recent massacre of non-Muslim villagers in Kashmir. Both...
...Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, examined various dog breeds. Among these was the New Guinea Singing Dog, a breed that had limited human contact but was domesticated very early, Wrangham said. Wobber found that dogs’ understanding of human signals has evolved over time through domestication. Wobber argued that inter-human communication may have evolved in a similar way, according to the press release. Wrangham expressed enthusiasm about his work with Wobber. She “has a very strong sense of what makes a good experiment,” he said. “When she got ahold...