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...There's no denying the insurgency has prospered in areas of official neglect. In a paper he presented to Parliament two years ago, Home Minister Shivraj Patil said that "Naxalites operate in [a] vacuum created by [an] absence of administrative and political institutions." The Naxalites, Patil said, "take advantage of the disenchantment prevalent among the exploited segments of the population" to "offer an alternative system of governance which promises emancipation ... through the barrel...
...same period last year. On May 16, in a show of support, the central banks of Denmark, Norway and Sweden offered to loan Iceland $2.4 billion in emergency credit, doubling the nation's reserves; the krona immediately gained 5% against the euro. Iceland's central bank asked parliament on May 28 to let it borrow up to $6.9 billion so it can better protect the country's currency and banking system...
...International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) accused Tehran of failing to disclose information about missile development, high-explosive testing and military involvement in the nuclear program--all of which could suggest a covert nuclear weapons program. The report provides ammunition for critics pressing Iran to stop uranium enrichment. Iran's parliament, meanwhile, elected as its speaker former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani--who promptly denounced the report and said Iran may curtail its cooperation with the IAEA in the future...
Among the foreign and Arab dignitaries attending Suleiman's election in the Lebanese parliament was Walid Muallem, Syria's foreign minister. It was the first official visit to Beirut by a senior Syrian official since 2005, signaling the possibility of a rapprochement between Damascus and the new government in Beirut...
...Clinton and him was choreographed for the 2000 U.N. General Assembly meeting - but Khatami backed out at the last minute, under pressure from his clerical superiors. In recent Iranian elections, the mullahs have made sure that reformers like Khatami were ineligible to run for the presidency and the Iranian parliament - although there are indications that Khamenei considers Ahmadinejad to be an unnecessarily bellicose embarrassment as well...