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Afghanistan has been subject to so many invasions and influences that new terms have had to be found for some of its art, as in Greco-Buddhist. The latter stems from the arrival of the best known of the conquerors, the Macedonian Alexander the Great. Pierre Cambon, chief conservator of Paris' Guimet Museum and commissioner of this exhibition, explains that although Alexander the Great ruled Afghanistan for only three years [330-327 B.C.] and died in his early 30s, his adventures and the mystique that surrounded them helped build yet another of the bridges to Afghanistan, this time reaching from...
...board. Israel closed its main airport amid fears that the downing of the Siberian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk was a terrorist act. U.S. officials said the Tupolev-154 may have been struck accidentally by a Ukrainian missile during a training exercise. MACEDONIA Plan in Jeopardy Macedonian police attempted to reoccupy several villages in the north of the country that had been held by ethnic Albanian rebels, but withdrew after meeting what one official called "a hostile reception." Western envoys in the country warned the government not to attempt to re-establish control in contested areas until more...
...home, gun crime has been rare, with no politician killed in over 100 years. Sept. 27 the National Liberation Army formally ceased to exist. The announcement came as nato declared its arms collecting mission to Macedonia a success, with 3,875 weapons handed in to nato troops. Ethnic Macedonian politicians greeted Ahmeti's announcement with some skepticism, believing that many weapons remain in rebel hands. CHECHNYA Talks About Talks In response to a proposal from Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chechens and Russians started talks to end the two-year war in the breakaway republic. Moscow has demanded that the rebels...
...success despite the death of a British soldier and an attack on U.S. troops near the border with Kosovo. The handover by ethnic Albanian rebels of more than a third of the targeted weapons paved the way for Macedonia's parliament to begin debating promised political reforms. But Macedonian nationalists blocked the entrances to the legislature in protest against the proposals, which would give greater rights to the ethnic Albanian minority...
...normal any time soon. Right now it would take very little to trigger a return to the levels of fighting we saw a few weeks ago. Despite the peace process, there's still small arms fire every night. There's also the issue of how much restraint the Macedonian security forces will show after the disarmament is completed. The recent Human Rights Watch report on incidents last March showed how the police can be quite undisciplined in their approach...