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...effort to rebuild Gaza gathers momentum, it confronts the inescapable political fact that nothing can be done in Gaza without the consent and cooperation of Hamas, which remains firmly in control of the territory. Like Kerry, a growing cadre of politicians and statesman - most recently, E.U. foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Friday - have visited Hamas-controlled Gaza to survey the wreckage. And while most will ritually eschew contact with Hamas, they are well aware that cleaning up the humanitarian mess left by Israel's incursion and rebuilding Gaza will require reaching a modus vivendi with the organization, whose popularity...
...increasingly secular Europe. And while most Italians are all but secular in their day-to-day lives, the Catholic Church and the pope's pulpit remain powerful forces in Italy's domestic politics. Upon word of Englaro's death, the Vatican's chief of health-related issues, Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan said: "We pray for her and ask the Lord for forgiveness for all that they did to her." Other strong words were exchanged in the Italian Senate, which had been in the throes of a passionate debate over an emergency bill introduced by Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi that would have...
...technology, says Javier Rodríguez Zapatero, general manager of Google Earth Spain, makes it possible to "enjoy these magnificent works in a way never previously possible, obtaining details impossible to appreciate through [even] firsthand observation...
...approach its hulking, rectangular silhouette in the nighttime. Perhaps I’d slip into the cafeteria first. On my left would be a poster of a young man name Carlos, admonishing its readers to “Continue the Fight.” The poster presumably depicts Carlos Javier Palomino, a young anti-fascist stabbed to death by a member of the extreme right on his way to a protest in a subway station the year prior. Continuing to scan the walls, I’d catch some of the building’s finer graffiti: cartoon people riding...
...choice Catholic presidential candidate John Kerry. The archbishop has since been promoted to Rome as head of the Holy See's equivalent of a Supreme Court. Meanwhile, in response to a question last week on Obama's pledge to reverse Washington's policy on stem-cell research, Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, who heads the Vatican office for health, made it clear that the church will not shy away from the debate. "What builds up man is good, what destroys him is bad," he told reporters, arguing that one human being should never become a material resource for the betterment...