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...They told us we don't have a place in our government, and we don't know why.' THAIR AL-SHEEKH, priest at Sacred Heart Church in Baghdad, after the Iraqi parliament scrapped a provision in the country's election law that guarantees seats for Iraqi Christians...
Confrontations between police and anti-government protesters turned violent on Oct. 7, leaving at least two people dead and hundreds injured. The riots started when police used tear gas to clear a path through a crowd of about 5,000 people blockading the Thai parliament, where new Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat was attempting to give his first policy address...
...attack by Iraq-based Kurdish rebels killed 17 Turkish soldiers and reignited the long-simmering feud between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish government. The nation retaliated with air strikes against PKK targets, and on Oct. 8 Turkey's parliament voted for a one-year extension of its mandate to launch cross-border military operations against Kurdish rebels in Iraq...
...immediate challenge for Tymoshenko will be to beat out the Party of the Regions in the race for control of parliament. But such are the divisions among the Ukrainian electorate that no clear winner is likely to emerge from the snap election, and the key question will be, Which two of the three major parties will end up forming a coalition? Tymoshenko cooperated with the Party of the Regions to further eclipse Yushchenko's presidential prerogatives last month and may yet do so again - but the shape of the next government will be settled as much at the polls...
After the volleys of tear gas cleared, members of the PAD regrouped around parliament and Government House, still vowing to keep up their protests. But six weeks of an opposition siege have left many Thais weary of the prolonged anti-government action. The country's stock market continues to swoon, with the benchmark index down nearly 40% since the PAD began its protest movement in late May. At a time when the government should be focusing on insulating the country from the global financial crisis, it is instead dealing with a clutch of protesters who want to replace...