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...capital of the affluent western Indian state of Gujarat. Some 30 people were killed, some at hospitals where bombs were timed to go off when the injured from other blasts were being brought in. (Later, in Surat, a center for the world's diamond industry, a bomb was defused near a hospital, and two cars packed with explosives were found in the city's outskirts.) Investigators pointed fingers at the usual Islamist suspects: Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul Jihadi Islami (HUJI) and the indigenous Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). But even as the police...
...trip was a reminder, too, that Tip O'Neill's adage about politics being local applies overseas as well. Two of the countries on his itinerary - Israel and Britain - are likely to see changes in government in the near future, so Obama made a point of meeting with leaders across the political spectrum. You could also see their domestic political concerns at work in how those foreign leaders approached Obama. Sarkozy, for example, has been under sharp criticism at home for his pro-American posture; it certainly didn't hurt him to be seen swooning over the only American politician...
...that morning. "No, they are not usually there," says U.S. military spokesman Mark Cheadle, referring to the convoy from the 4th Brigade that was parked at the roadside. According to a Global Security statement obtained by TIME, the American platoon had been on its way to a military base near the airport when they were forced to pull over because a humvee was having engine trouble. It said one of the soldiers on the ground said he thought he heard gunfire and alerted the others through their headsets. The gunner of the first humvee quickly rotated in his turret...
...country's eventual secession from the United Kingdom. If Scottish Nationalists were to achieve a swing of the magnitude of Glasgow East at the next general election, Labour would lose all but one of its 40 Scottish seats in Westminster. Brown himself, the MP for Kircaldy and Cowdenbeath near Edinburgh, would be among the casualties...
...imposed in other cities during international events. Beijing set up a similar site during the World Conference on Women in 1995. That zone was in the Great Wall resort town of Huairou, 15 miles away from where the conference was being held. The Olympic protest zones - in Ritan Park near the city's eastern embassy district; the Beijing World Park, which has replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Egypt's pyramids; and the Zizhu Park near the northwestern university district - are within the city, but far enough from the Olympic venues that they're easy for spectators to avoid...