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...have escaped the dragnet. On June 5, militias surrounded a car carrying U.S. diplomats and threatened to kill them. The regime has also arrested and beaten journalists, local and foreign. On June 18, the government eased an earlier ban on foreign aid groups, whom it accused of supporting the MDC, allowing food and HIV/AIDS groups to re-enter the country. But the same day it expelled an official from the U.N. High Commission for Refugees...
...class to be told, along with the other teachers, about the events in New York City. No one's certain if it's a terrorist attack or a random quirk of nature, but "some kind of airborne chemical toxin" is spreading across the Northeast that's making people kill themselves. The pupils are sent home, and Elliot decides that he, his wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel) and his math-teacher buddy (John Leguizamo) will get out of town. The movie is the story of their flight...
...Jolo Island, not far from his village where he still lives. For the authorities, Chief's decision to stay is one of many signs that Abu Sayyaf is on the run. "They suspect me, definitely," he says of the Islamist group's dwindling membership. "They have tried to kill me. But I never thought of leaving Jolo. I know the armed forces will protect me. And if I leave, the terrorists will suspect me more. They will come after my family." Chief says he doesn't regret what he did. "I didn't do it because of the money...
...will kill people in Akihabara," wrote factory worker Tomohiro Kato, 25, in a message posted via cell phone to an online bulletin board on June 8. Then he apparently did just that. Dressed in a pale suit, he drove about 60 miles (95 km) from his home to the popular shopping district and plowed his rented truck into a crowd before leaping out of the vehicle and frantically stabbing innocent bystanders. Seven people were killed in the incident, which followed a disquieting series of random stabbings in recent months in a nation where violent crime is comparatively rare. A Cabinet...
Though the latest and most poisonous rumors about Michelle were ginned up by a pro-Clinton website, Obama knows that - notwithstanding John McCain's pledge that his own campaign will not engage in smears - more rumors can be expected in a general-election campaign. Trying to kill them with oxygen and openness is a risky approach. But Obama is attempting to find the humor - and the votes - by taking the rumors head-on. Speaking to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee last week, Obama greeted his largely Jewish audience, which has had doubts about his support for Israel, some...