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...Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Gujarat who has been widely criticized for failing to stop the 2002 anti-Muslim violence, appeared before the cameras to announce an award of $200,000 for the families of those "who have been martyred while fighting the terrorists" and to criticize Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's address to the nation the day before as "disappointing...
BACK FROM THE BRINK As months of antigovernment protests culminated in the occupation of two Bangkok airports (above), a court dissolved Thailand's ruling party, finding its members guilty of election fraud. The protesters dispersed, flights resumed, and 109 lawmakers, including Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat, were barred from politics for five years. Still, Thailand's troubles are far from over: the selection of its next Prime Minister could spark renewed clashes...
...suicide bomber struck at a Kurdish demonstration, killing 25, Kurds turned their wrath on Turkomans, though the violence quickly subsided. Since then, a war of words has broken out. Arab politicians in Baghdad were enraged when the provincial government of Kurdistan struck deals with oil companies without consulting Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government; this was seen as proof that the Kurds were trying to grab Kirkuk's resources for themselves...
DIED V.P. Singh, 77, was Prime Minister of India from 1989 to '90. His decision to reserve a fixed percentage of public-sector jobs for India's lower castes sparked riotous protests--and cemented his reputation among the poor as "India's Mandela...
...army; in Pakistan, the army has a state. An attempt this summer to place the ISI under the Interior Ministry had to be rescinded when the army refused to accept the order. And when, in the wake of the Mumbai bombings, Zardari acceded to the request of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to send the head of the ISI to India to assist Indian authorities in their investigation, the Pakistani military again forced the civilian government into a humiliating climb down. (See pictures of Pakistan's vulnerable Northwest passage...