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...class electorate, Thaksin swept into office with a record-high vote, largely thanks to support from the country's rural north. Since the September coup, more than a dozen public schools in Thailand's northeast have been torched; the military junta has used such acts of violence, which they link to Thaksin supporters, as justification for keeping parts of the nation under martial law. Thaksin is currently in exile in China, as the interim government investigates whether corruption charges can be brought against the billionaire ex-premier. On Monday, through his lawyer, Thaksin denied any connection to the New Year...
...Southeast Asia is unusually vulnerable to such an outage because most of the region's data travels via a handful of major cables located in north Asia that link with the rest of the world. But not only Asia was affected. As traffic was re-routed, networks on other continents were swamped with the digital overflow. "Our (corporate network) based in Germany has been completely clogged," says Ken Oka, who works for an IT consulting company in Tokyo. "All the re-routed traffic has been causing a slowdown in other parts of the world...
...Somalia's fate is attracting international attention because of its link to the war against terror. After dismissing comparisons to the Taliban when they took over the Somali capital this summer, the Islamic Courts promptly set about emulating them. Clerics threatened death to those who did not pray five times a day and enforced strict dress codes while Courts leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys declared holy war on Ethiopia, whose eastern parts he claimed belonged to a greater Somalia, along with northeastern Kenya and Djibouti, home to a U.S. base. As TIME reported earlier this year As TIME reported earlier...
...link first became a problem last spring, when Hyman, along with Bok and Corporation member Nannerl O. Keohane, was considered for the interim presidency. The Crimson reported last June that the fellows of the Corporation thought Hyman was too closely associated with Summers to be a viable interim choice...
...there’s an emergency, the closest file might be a mile or 8,000 miles away.” “It’s definitely a concern of ours,” he added. The National Institute of Mental Health has called for the link between antidepressants and suicide to be explored further before widespread action against antidepressant prescription is taken...