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Lieutenant General David Petraeus has just returned to his office in Baghdad's Republican Palace from visiting a close friend - a tribal sheikh he had come to know well during his 10-month command of the 101st Airborne Division in the northern city of Mosul. As is often the case, Petraeus is one lucky man: His friend, Sheikh Ghazi Yawar, was appointed as Iraq's new president three weeks ago. And Yawar's most critical priority is the one Petraeus is now charged with overseeing: getting Iraq's military and police forces up and running. "It was wonderful...
...This is no way to build a country." WALI MASOOD, brother of late Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Masood, speculating that Afghan President Hamid Karzai discussed with the country's powerful warlords the possibility of offering them positions in a future government in return for their support in upcoming elections...
...paramilitary commander known only as 08 is lounging on the porch of a ranch house in the hamlet of Santa Fé de Ralito, in Colombia's northern Córdoba province. It's an area dotted with elaborate new mansions, and many of them, local ranchers say, belong to leaders of the bloodthirsty paramilitary groups known as the Colombian Self-Defense Forces (AUC). U.S. officials claim the mansions were built with the millions of dollars AUC members allegedly earn moonlighting as cocaine smugglers. But crew-cut 08, guzzling black coffee and smoking cigarettes, denies it all. "We've never...
...July - was Leyla Zana, winner of the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize. Brussels had warned Turkey that the M.P.'s detention jeopardized its chances of joining the E.U., whose leaders will decide in December whether to open accession negotiations with Ankara . Ultimately, an O.K. IRAQ The Kurdish parliament in northern Iraq endorsed the U.N. resolution on Iraq 's interim government, despite earlier criticizing it for failing to make reference to Iraq 's interim constitution, which guarantees Kurdish autonomy. Kurdish leaders had threatened to boycott the government, but accepted assurances that the fundamental law would be respected. Second Time Unlucky? DEMOCRATIC...
...overcrowded subways or undelivered mail rarely dampen public support for striking workers. But sympathy sank last week when power workers cut off electric supplies at Paris' main train stations, stranding a half million angry passengers. After this fumble, the strikers are now scrambling to rally public opinion. In the northern city of Lille, local electric company employees switched residents from daytime electricity rates to the 39% cheaper nighttime rates. Activists caused a temporary power cut at toll booths on the Toulouse-Bayonne autoroute, allowing motorists free passage. It's too early to tell whether public opinion has swayed, but workers...