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...real. Last week, the Taliban vowed to disrupt Afghanistan's election in a strongly worded warning posted on its website, urging Afghans to boycott the poll and "join the trenches of Jihad." Violence has already claimed the lives of several workers campaigning for a field of 36 candidates. (Read a story about U.S. support for President Karzai...
...later, as Ahmadinejad was sworn in by Iran's parliament on Aug. 5, the Islamic Republic remains in the grip of an unprecedented political crisis over the legitimacy of both men - a crisis that shows no sign of abating, either on the streets or inside the corridors of power. (Read "Khamenei: The Power Behind the President...
...justification with some skepticism. Just as likely a culprit for the inmates' "undue mental anguish" is the fact that conditions in Kenya's prisons are, by most accounts, absolutely horrifying. Rights groups have repeatedly documented cases of death, torture, malnutrition and severe overcrowding within Kenya's prison system. (Read: "In Kenya, Charges of High-Level Conspiracies...
...government officials to try to figure out if the death penalty - or at least the threat of it - has helped deter crime at all in Kenya. The country is in the midst of a protracted, controversial constitutional review that includes a debate about the effectiveness of the death penalty. (Read: "The Tide Shifts Against the Death Penalty...
...carefully planned strategy" of executions by police, almost certainly conducted with the consent of their top brass. He called for the resignation of the chief of police and Kenya's attorney general. In response, Kenya denied the allegations and demanded Alston's removal from his U.N. envoy post. (Read: "Kenya's Unfinished Reckoning...