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The government's extreme response probably says more about Hong Kong's medical history than its current diagnosis. Five years ago, the SARS epidemic crippled the city, killing nearly 300 people and grinding public life to an eerie halt. At the time, the government came under fire for not doing...
That pattern of protest was a repeat of the last time Lhasa saw large-scale anti-Beijing demonstrations in March 1989, an escalating series of clashes that ended with troops killing scores of protesters and the declaration of martial law.
All this occurred on December 12, and Isenhour clearly counted on the incident passing by unnoticed. But when the charges of animal cruelty and killing a migratory bird became public last week, the resulting scandal was more reminiscent of the Michael Vick dog-fighting furor last year than the joke...
The kidnapping comes after the December killing of four French tourists in Mauritania in what intelligence officials believe was a bungled abduction attempt. In September an AQIM plot to seize two French nationals in Algiers was thwarted by security services, and the same month, a group of Italian civil engineers...
In Bethlehem on Wednesday evening, Israeli agents disguised as Arabs and driving a car with a Palestinian license plate ambushed and killed four suspected militants, including a senior commander of Islamic Jihad. Israeli intelligence sources told TIME that the assassination was designed to prevent an alleged suicide attack that the...