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Deposed President Manuel Zelaya stole back into Honduras Sept. 21 and holed up at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, bringing to a head the political crisis that has engulfed the country since his June ouster. Zelaya, whom the international community still considers Honduras' legitimate leader, called for talks with the new government, as thousands of his supporters camped outside the embassy and clashed with police...
...past month, the government, which is Sunni-dominated, has stepped up its military offensive against Shi'ite rebels, known as Houthis, whom officials blame for the killings. It's a continuation of a war that began in 2004, when the government killed a Houthi leader, raising fears among Yemeni followers of the Zaydi sect of Shi'ite Islam that they were being targeted for eradication by the government and Sunni extremists. So far, thousands have died and hundreds of thousands have been displaced by the fighting, mostly in the northern province of Saada. The government has used aerial bombardment...
...symbiotic relationship between the government and al-Qaeda shifted after 9/11 and the American invasion of Iraq, when the Yemeni government worried that it too might be on the receiving end of U.S. military action. Sana'a helped the U.S. with the assassination of a leader of al-Qaeda in 2002, by missile attack from a Predator drone, even as it turned a blind eye to other extremists as long as they didn't cause trouble...
...colleagues called him both a terrific architect and a visionary leader...
...think [Yale’s leader Tom McCarthy] shot a six under, which I think is probably a team record...