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...ARRESTED. SAIFULLAH (MUKLIS) YUNOS, alleged head of special operations for the Philippine separatist group the Moro National Liberation Front and said to be its liaison with the regional terrorist organization Jemaah Islamiah (JI); while trying to board a flight for Manila; in Cagayan de Oro, the Philippines. Yunos was caught with an Egyptian who is on international terrorist-watch lists. Meanwhile, in Cambodia the authorities detained three men?one Egyptian and two Thais?for being JI members. Although the arrests signify progress in the war on terror, they also show the resilience and reach of JI, which is widely regarded...
...both asked him to take national posts. And Duterte's way is spreading. Presidential adviser Jesus Dureza, who has known him since high school, says voters in other cities also crave Duterte-type security. Copycat vigilante killings have cropped up in Digos City to the south and Cagayan de Oro to the north. Locally, criticism from Muslim leaders, the Catholic church, and libertarian groups has been muted. Only child welfare and human-rights bodies have complained about the deaths of too many teens. The locals' views are all too clear. Duterte has never lost an election. Everyone in Davao seems...
...SOUTH AMERICA Among the 300 tongues of Lowland Amazonia are Oro Win (three speakers) and Piraha (300), which has a sound like kids imitating motors and has the fewest consonants (eight) and vowels (three) discovered in a language...
...Twombly’s latest painting series, “Lepanto,” is a twelve-panel suite of paintings created in the early months of 2001 for exhibition at the Venice Biennale, where he received the prized Leone d’Oro award. The series is principally a contemplation and revival of the legendary Lepanto battle of 1571 where a combined Spanish, Venetian and Papal armada fought and defeated the imposing fleet of the Ottoman Empire. The battle of Lepanto was celebrated widely as a decisive turning point in the struggle between East and West...
Other notables in the International Pavilion—which had the best percentage of interesting art per square foot by far—included a room full of 12 huge Cy Twombly paintings (Twombly, along with Richard Serra, won the Leone d’oro this year), Mimmo Rotella’s decollages of circus posters and Lucinda Devlin’s chilling photographs of American execution cells. Less impressive offerings included Paul Graham’s photographs of bathroom graffiti, Nedko Solakov’s repeated painting of walls white and black, repeatedly layering the hues over each other...