Word: rebels
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...between July 8 and 18. That protest ended after the oil giant agreed to build schools and clinics, provide water and electricity service, set up farms and create jobs. BURUNDI Talks Abandoned Talks in Tanzania aimed at bringing peace to Burundi were abandoned by both the government and Hutu rebels. In the most serious fighting since a power-sharing agreement between Tutsi and Hutu began last November, the Burundi army said it had killed more than 200 Hutu rebels in two weeks. Most of the rebels were killed at Gitega, 100 km east of the capital Bujumbura, where 152 rebels...
...QADIR, Vice President and Minister of Public Works in Afghanistan's transitional government; in Kabul. One of three Vice Presidents chosen to serve in the Cabinet of President Hamid Karzai's, Qadir was gunned down in his own car as he left the ministry. Qadir was the brother of rebel commander Abdul Haq, who was killed by the Taliban last year...
...might have given her subgenre a boost but doesn't pretend that she and her Authentic colleagues are revolting against something bigger than stale music: "We aren't too scary. I'm not here cussing every other word and talking about politics." You don't have to be a rebel to join this movement--which means that soon every 105-lb. diva with glitter in her hair may be going Authentic...
...incidents in Indian-administered Kashmir. Various radical groups took responsibility for the attacks, which came as Defense Minister George Fernandes said that Indian forces would remain deployed in Kashmir until fall elections. PHILIPPINES Lost at Sea President Gloria Arroyo called off a search for the body of the Muslim rebel Abu Sabaya, believed to have died in a battle with Philippine troops at sea. The army said Sabaya's body was probably eaten by sharks. He was the main spokesman and one of the leaders of Abu Sayyaf, a guerrilla group that became notorious for using kidnappings in pursuit...
...same writer also opined, with regard to the Don’s incarceration in 1992, that “Gotti had to do time because the bureaucrats, who hide behind [the American] flag, said so.” Another journalist described Gotti as “[a]n elegant rebel who came from nothing” and was “kind to children and generous to friends...