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...Baghdad's airport, Iraq's savage and complex civil war has been playing out in miniature. Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia has been encroaching from Shula, the Shi'a-dominated neighborhood to the north. The Sunni minority has virtually vanished from northern Gazaliyah, driven away by murder and intimidation. In the heavily Sunni southern part of the neighborhood homegrown insurgents and foreign jihadists have been attacking the Americans and Shi'a-dominated security forces...
...most serious to hit drug- and violence-torn Colombia in more than a decade. It has been building for months since the Supreme Court opened investigations into allegations of close-knit relations between politicians and the paramilitary groups that have long controlled different areas of the country through murder and intimidation. So far eight federal lawmakers are behind bars awaiting prosecution. One senator, whose arrest warrant was issued along with Sen. Araujo's, is at large and believed to be in Germany. And even as the foreign minister was announcing her resignation, the Supreme Court, which in Colombia is charged...
...unpleasant alcoholic. When Raimunda returns home from work one day to find her husband dead in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor, she learns that her daughter (Yohana Cobo) had stabbed him in an effort to prevent him from raping her. Immediately, Raimunda conceals the murder by cleaning the blood from the floor and hiding the body. Meanwhile, an element of the supernatural appears in the form of Irene (Carmen Maura). She is the deceased mother of hardworking Raimunda and kind Sole (Lola Duenas), as well as the sister of senile Paula (Chus Lampreave). Irene joins Sole after...
...time to bring charges, or that the reports are incomplete and unable to withstand the rigors of a trial. For their part, police counter that the D.A.'s office is demanding more work than is necessary to bring offenders to trial, and playing politics by bringing first-degree murder charges against four cops who allegedly opened fire on a group of pedestrians in Katrina's chaotic aftermath...
...Hariri was running the family's business empire in Saudi Arabia when his father's murder propelled the soft-spoken then-35-year-old second son into the unforgiving limelight of Lebanese politics. As political heir to his father, he has had to endure a crash course in Lebanese politics while staying one step ahead of the assassins that continue to prowl this country. Four leading politicians and journalists have been killed in the two years since his father's death, the last being Pierre Gemayel, the industry minister, who was gunned down in his car last November...