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...approximately the size of France and has a population, mostly poor, of 4.1 million. According to U.N. humanitarian officials, some 164,000 people have fled their Katanga homes since late last year, most of them victims of a vicious struggle as government soldiers close in on Katanga's rebel militia groups known as Mai Mai. President Joseph Kabila's transitional coalition - which includes former warlords - is determined to eradicate rebel holdouts before Congo's first free elections in more than 40 years, which are scheduled for June 18. And the repercussions of that campaign - which since last fall has caused...
...unadorned prose. Shunsuke is simultaneously dazzled and exasperated by his wife's quest for satisfaction, admiring and despairing of American exuberance, fascinated and thwarted by modern gadgetry. The harder he tries to accommodate the new world, the more it punishes him. His wife becomes deathly ill, his children rebel, his friends snicker behind his back. "We're all together and our lives are filled with pain," he insists when the going gets roughest. That's only half right: at some moment between the occupation and the semiconductor, the Japanese ideal of togetherness faded. Now, as Kojima's sad, perceptive masterpiece...
...Iraq, and their Sunni allies in the insurgency. Shi?ite reactions were swift and violent. Mobs from the predominantly Shi'ite Shu'lah neighborhood in western Baghdad attacked Sunni mosques in Ghazaliya, a nearby Sunni area. Gunmen were out on the streets of Sadr City, home base for rebel cleric-and parliamentary power broker-Moqtada al-Sadr. In Basra, there were reports of heavy street fighting between Sunni and Shi'ite gunmen. Elsewhere, Sunni political party offices were attacked...
...Tamil side has its own die-hard brigades. In a late-November speech, rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran admitted he had intended to launch a new offensive last year before the tsunami made it impractical. Prabhakaran warned Rajapakse that he would attack within three months unless the government recognized Tamil self-determination. "The Tigers didn't even allow me to breathe," Rajapakse told TIME. "They attacked within days [of the election]. They are trying to force us into...
...Nizhniy Novgorod regional center last week gave a suspended two year sentence to Stanislav Dmitriyevsky, Chair of the local Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, and editor of Rights Defense bulletin. Dmitriyevsky was found guilty of fomenting ethnic hatred, simply because in March 2004, he published an appeal by Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov - later killed by Russian security services - and Maskhadov's envoy in Europe, Akhmet Zakayev...