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...first glance, that the African Union on Tuesday responded with force to a threat by one of the islands, Anjouan, to secede. Comoran troops backed by an AU force composed of Libyan, Senegalese, Sudanese and Tanzanian soldiers invaded at dawn, under a barrage of mortars and gunfire, and by noon announced that they were in control. But despite the operation's apparent success, it raises as many questions as it answers...
Perhaps the biggest reason that Visa's IPO price soared from $44 to $60 a share by noon on its first day of trading is simply that the company has massive growth potential, especially internationally. Visa Europe will remain a separate company for now, but "in the developing world, we are just scraping the surface," says Clifford Tan, an economist and visiting scholar at the Stanford Center For international Development. Visa's U.S. revenue grew a healthy 23% in fiscal year 2007, but its international revenue soared 57% over 2006. And as formerly cash-based economies in South Korea, China...
...strong minority bloc, despite disqualifications by the unelected Guardian Council reducing their numbers to 130 candidates. While they have gained about 40 seats in the provinces, they have so far failed to secure a single seat in the capital. By the time the Tehran votes were counted Monday noon local time, 16 out of 30 seats had gone to candidates of the pro-Ahmadinejad United Principalists' Coalition, with the remainder to be contested in a run-off later in April or May. Theoretically, reformists still could take the remaining seats...
...small group of students calling themselves the “Students at Harvard Undermining Terrorism-United Patriots” (SHUT-UP) enacted a farcical pro-war demonstration in front of the John Harvard Statue at noon yesterday. Members of the Harvard Anti-War Coalition (HAWC) marched through Harvard Yard and the surrounding area with signs reading “Five more years (or however long it takes...)!” and chanted “1, 2, 3, 4, we support preemptive war!” The march was one of several events the group has organized as the fifth...
...sips tea on a dusty mat beneath the sparse shade of a thorn tree, Ahmed Hatum Shiib Ahmed recalls the day in early 2006 when his tribal village in Darfur was attacked. Men in desert-beaten pickups with mounted guns swept in at noon, strafing the market and shooting villagers. Then just as quickly, the fighters withdrew to the outskirts, cordoning the village and trapping its inhabitants. In the days that followed, they terrorized the villagers. They stole cattle and camels, eating what they needed and sending the rest on long caravans to distant markets for sale...