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...filter in from Nepal's April 10 election - the country's first in nine years - Prachanda's Maoists are poised to win a clear majority in the 601-member Constituent Assembly, a body that will draft the constitution of a new Nepalese republic. The once incendiary, class warfare-waging rebel may be on the verge of becoming Nepal's first President...
Three influential humanitarians urged members of the Harvard community yesterday evening to increase their awareness of the crisis in Chad, which has been escalating since rebel forces first tried to overthrow the president in April 2006. The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI)—a University-wide program supporting the practice of humanitarian response worldwide—organized the event to educate students about the recent crisis in Chad and its relation to the ongoing military conflict in Darfur. The panel featured HHI Fellow Alex W. de Waal; Heinz J. Henghuber, a former head of Doctors without Borders; and UNICEF...
MUTSAMUDU, COMOROS Rebel forces routed on isle of Anjouan seven years after their coup...
Staying home in the face of danger isn't the British way. After suicide bombings in July 2005, Londoners continued working and socializing. Yet a survey by kids' charity TS Rebel found that last year more than a fifth of Britons avoided going out at night rather than risk encounters with a different form of terror: groups of children. Britons are frightened of their own young...
...motto have little to do with the image of the Native American. They were both tacked on to the seal during the Revolutionary War, at a time when Massachusetts was at the center of a bloody political struggle against monarchism. The Latin motto is lifted from the English rebel Algernon Sydney, a vehement opponent of the Restoration who was executed for conspiring to kill Charles II. It refers not to a conquest of native peoples but to an ethos of colonial liberation that had become the archetypal sentiment of Massachusetts patriots. The image of the sword refers to the first...