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...conflict. Most of the 1.8 million people in Thailand's three southernmost provinces are Malay-speaking Muslims, but they make up only 2% of a largely Thai-speaking Buddhist country. For a century, attempts at assimilation have been met with resentment and rebellion. The current hostilities erupted under former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose hard-line response to what he dismissed as banditry turned sporadic militant attacks into a full-blown insurgency...
...minds of many Iraqis and militiamen and their passive supporters, that left virtually all Sunni communities complicit in insurgent violence and therefore fair game for bloody reprisal attacks like the bombings Thursday and Friday. But today, many key Sunni factions work with the government and U.S. forces, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has made some progress in terms of political reconciliation...
Zimbabweans cheered when the government of national unity was formed in February by President Robert Mugabe and his erstwhile foe Morgan Tsvangirai, who is now the country's Prime Minister. But ordinary folks say they are not happy with what has happened since. Half the population of about 13 million is facing hunger; a raging cholera epidemic has claimed more than 4,000 lives since last year; and the economy has continued to be inert, as it has been for almost a decade now. The world economic crunch has not helped the situation. "We are yet to see results...
...pleasurable breeze. “Beneath the Veil,” which opens simply with a brisk bluegrass guitar rhythm and Wallach’s voice dancing on the lower limits of its register before giving way to lighter fare replete with handclaps and a tambourine, is a prime example of experimental success. One part “Rocky Raccoon,” one part “Walk the Line,” “Beneath the Veil” is a joy to listen to, both for its genre-bending appeal and for its own musical merit...
...Wants to Be a Millionaire • return to prime time of by ABC to celebrate the 10th anniversary of - yes, here's a major event worth commemorating - its debut