Word: overthrows
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...Whether Hamayel and pols like him succeed may well influence the future of the Middle East. Hamayel is a member of Hamas, the radical Islamic group that has actively pursued the violent overthrow of Israel, killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings and rocket attacks and is listed as a terrorist group by the U.S. But Hamas has also emerged as a major a political force, positioning itself as the chief rival to Fatah, the party of former president Yasser Arafat and current Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas. In local elections last year, Hamas won control of towns and cities across...
...would have been provided by the College, given his destination. The Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe has a propensity for detaining individuals it considers even slightly hostile. Only recently, the U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe was detained for trespassing in a public park on charges that he was trying to overthrow the Mugabe regime. This incident was an isolated one. It in no way reflects the general condition of all nations that merit a medium-level warning from the State Department. If anything, the incident is an outlier that illustrates the caution that students must be prepared to take when traveling abroad...
...sectarian extremists on both sides. Former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's secular Shi'ite party hasn't so far got the number it was expecting. And according to the preliminary results, the secular list of Shi'ite Ahmad Chalabi, one of Washington's favorite lobbyists for the war to overthrow Saddam, didn't get enough votes for one seat. So even as Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders are meeting to discuss forming a broadly representative government, the lack of a significant moderate voting bloc means there will probably be less will to make deals and compromise. Says the Iraqi official...
...there saying it was unrealistic to overthrow the administration. He said that a few hundred thousand dollars a year wasn’t enough to run a college, especially when they had just lost money on Havana in the Harbour. And all I could think was that our brothers and sisters were crying for help out there...
...participating in the rally." But political reform is beyond his jurisdiction. That's Beijing's call. Its attitude to Hong Kong is: Trust us; you will, someday, get your democracy. For those who marched, their rejoinder is: Trust us by giving us democracy now; we are not out to overthrow you, we just want a say in running our own city...