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...many people credit with rail's comeback is Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav. Known only as Lalu to his energetic supporters in the poor northern state of Bihar, Yadav is a controversial figure. He is adored by millions as a man of the people because he is of a lower caste - a rarity among politicians. Yet he is routinely vilified by his many detractors who claim his term as Chief Minister of Bihar was characterized by mismanagement and corruption. When he became Rail Minister in 2004, Yadav asked Kumar and his team to run the system on sounder business principles, even...
Vujovic was hardly alone in embracing that cause. Since Kosovo's declaration of independence on Feb. 17, thousands of demonstrators across Serbia and Kosovo have taken to the streets. They have thrown grenades at the United Nations courthouse in northern Kosovo, destroyed two customs posts, and clashed with ethnic Albanian police. Student demonstrators have rallied daily along the Ibar River that divides Serb from Albanian areas in the northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica, chanting, "Kosovo is Serbia!" and "Kosovo is ours!" For Marko Jaksic, head of the Serbian National Council in Mitrovica, such action is not optional; a failure...
...Turkish government seemed unmoved by the Iraqi cabinet's statement on Tuesday condemning Turkey's incursion as a "violation of Iraqi sovereignty" and a "unilateral military action." The Turkish military sent ground troops into northern Iraq last Thursday to take on guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers' Party...
...similar drama played out in December, when the Turkish government responded to PKK attacks with a series of air strikes in northern Iraq. But the scale of this month's fighting, along with Turkey's use of significant ground forces, has provoked a more serious crisis. Several thousand Turkish troops have entered several miles into northern Iraq, and with reinforcements moving south through Turkey the operation does not seem to be winding down. According the Turkish military's website 24 of its soldiers and 230 PKK guerrillas have been killed since the operation began...
...only pressure that may work to end or limit Turkey's operations in northern Iraq will have to come from U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, who arrived Wednesday in Turkey for talks. His visit had been planned before the latest fighting, but before leaving India for Turkey, Gates indicated that diffusing the crisis in Kurdistan was now at the top of his agenda. He told reporters that "it's very important that the Turks make this operation as short as possible and then leave. They have to be mindful of Iraqi sovereignty." And, putting a U.S. timetable on Turkish...