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...suffered a major blow from the nationwide turmoil sparked by the election dispute. At least 1,000 people were killed in the violence, and on Wednesday, Finance Minister Amos Kimunya said the economy would almost certainly slow down in 2008 because of the crisis. At a gala event to launch the IPO, Kibaki portrayed the offering as a step in the healing process, and urged Kenyans to "take advantage of this investment opportunity and take part in the success story that we have created together...
...bristled, and essentially said never. "The AKP say they want democracy and the European Union, but they don't have much to show for this," says Hakan Altinay, director of Istanbul's Open Society Institute. "In the next six months, the right thing to do would be to launch a hearts-and-minds campaign to win over society as a whole, to truly prove to everyone that they are democrats. That they are genuinely as much for the rights of Kurdish nationalists, gays or Christian missionaries, as they are for their own." If they do this convincingly, Altinay says...
...opposed by Moscow, which sees it as an effort to extend a geopolitical rival's presence to Russia's southern and southwestern frontiers. Although some European NATO members are reluctant to antagonize Russia by forging ahead with inducting Georgia and Ukraine, President Bush made clear that he backs the launch of the membership process for the two countries...
...Mendillo’s appointment comes after years of instability at HMC, beginning with the 2005 departure of the company’s long-time CEO Jack R. Meyer, who left to launch a hedge fund amid heated criticism over his multimillion dollar compensation—and took 30 HMC employees with...
Thursday also marked the third day of escalated fighting in other sections of the city, spurred by the launch of an Iraqi military operation against armed militants - many of them supporters of powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr - in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. Thousands of Iraqi Shi'ites massed in three districts of Baghdad, including Sadr City - the notoriously dangerous slum and stronghold of Sadr's militia, the Mahdi Army - to protest the offensive in Basra. One group of demonstrators in Khadamiya district carried a coffin with a photo of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's face...