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...operations carried out at roughly the same time. But they were substantial, with a significant naval presence offshore, special-operations forces and missions flown from nearby airfields, all designed to degrade the capacity of local Islamist militants. In early January, says Abdirashid Mohamed Hiddig, a member of the Somalian parliament, the Ethiopians asked him to fly to Kulbio, Somalia. There, he says, U.S. plainclothes personnel and military personnel were sifting prisoners, looking for al-Qaeda. Human Rights Watch, a humanitarian organization based in New York City, says Ethiopian and Kenyan security forces detained hundreds of suspects without charge, though most...
...Balancing security and cultural ties to the U.S. with economic ties to China is a major preoccupation for Australia. Howard worked hard at it, and in 2003 invited Hu and President George W. Bush to address joint sittings of Parliament. Rudd shares Howard's vision of Australia as a bridge between the U.S. and China. On his first trip overseas as opposition leader, he addressed Washington's Brookings Institution on the implications of China's rise for U.S.-Australian relations. As a junior diplomat and later a business consultant, Rudd lived in China for a few years...
This is not the time for small concessions but rather for meaningful change.The army must surrender power to a freely elected Parliament and must return to the barracks once and for all. Over 50 years of military hegemony must come to an end if the Pakistani people are to receive what was promised to them when independence was won: a government that fights not for its own interests but for the interests of its people...
...half did. Chinese students have a much harder time securing places in Malaysia's public universities because of quotas, so those with sufficient funds head overseas. Many do not return. Those who do find workplaces are increasingly divided along ethnic lines. "[In the 1970s] there was a bar at Parliament, and we would all socialize together," recalls Lim Kit Siang, the Chinese head of the opposition Democratic Action Party, who has served off and on in Parliament since 1969. "Now, everything is separate, and non-Malays feel like second-class citizens in their own country." Many ethnic Indians, whose economic...
...Still, a Sharif-Bhutto team would combine the forces of the two biggest parties in the country and create a powerful obstacle to Musharraf's plans to control the next parliament. In the weeks ahead Pakistan's future may hinge on whether two unlikely allies can work together against the one person they despise more than each other...