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...small, twin-engine plane carrying him crashed in a mountainous area; in southern Bosnia. Trajkovski, a Methodist minister and respected moderate who was elected President in 1999, is credited with preventing civil war during an uprising by ethnic Albanians. After nationalists protesting negotiations with the Albanians stormed the Macedonian parliament, Trajkovski exhorted citizens not to "allow hatred to control our lives...
...over, and the conservatives have won. The big winner is Khamenei, 64, who played a decisive role in putting his conservative allies back in power. The main loser is reformist President Mohammed Khatami, who will serve the last year of his two terms of office facing a hostile parliament and the possibility that conservatives will win the presidency in 2005. It's a prospect that fills Khamenei's allies with glee. "A quarter of a century after the triumph of the Islamic revolution," boasts Mohammed Kazem Anbarlui, editor of the conservative daily Resalat, "we are at the height of power...
...THINK DEMOCRACY IS FARING IN RUSSIA UNDER VLADIMIR PUTIN? Very badly. Most of the attributes of an open society are now eliminated, because you don't have an effective opposition in parliament. You don't have an independent mass media. And the owners of capital have been put on notice that they must toe the line or else...
When the idea of building a security fence in Israel first arose, Eric R. Trager ’05 was an intern in the Knesset, or Israeli parliament...
...people who died in a ski train fire in 2000 reacted with anger to the acquittal by a Salzburg court of 16 people charged with negligence in relation to the disaster and said they would seek compensation in civil courts. Prosecutors lodged an appeal. Impeachment Ball Rolls LITHUANIA Parliament formally launched impeachment proceedings against President Rolandas Paksas, following a report into accusations by the security services that his alleged links with criminal groups make him a threat to national security. Checking in on Saddam IRAQ A delegation from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited ousted leader Saddam...