Word: regionality
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...Darfur atrocities described by President Bush as genocide are perpetrated by the Arab supremacist Janjaweed militia, with support from Sudanese troops, against the farmer population of Darfur, who are mostly black Africans. In four years of fighting in this eastern, semi-desert region of Sudan, 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million displaced. Last November, Sudan's President Omar Al-Bashir finally agreed to a three-phase U.N. plan to strengthen the overstretched, 7,000-strong African Union (AU) peacekeeping force in Darfur. Then, after five months of stalling, the Sudanese President gave the go-ahead in April...
...major flyways converge in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, bringing over 500 species of birds and 300 species of butterflies to the region, where eco-tourism is now a $150 million annual business. Hunters - including Vice President Dick Cheney - spend millions hunting white wing doves, which flourish in the brushy habitat. "This is the most biologically diverse region in North America," said Nancy Brown, public outreach officer for the refuge. This rich biodiversity has helped revive little border towns like Roma, a former river steamboat port, whose picturesque 19th century dusty plaza now boasts the World Birding Center. Looking down...
...Marines here speak of "strategic corporals." In a fight where public perception is so vital the decisions made by young enlisted men don't just affect a particular patrol, or the opinions of Iraqis on a single street. The ripple effect can change the strategic picture of an entire region dramatically. "The complexity of what we're doing is so much greater," Gové said. The key choice is often when to "not act - which is the hardest thing for a Marine to do." One cultural lesson the Marines have learned is that what appears to American eyes...
...Keen to avoid conflict in Iraq's only consistently stable region, the U.S. has tried to contain Turkish frustration over a steady trickle of casualties in southeastern Turkey-in the latest violence, six soldiers were killed in an ambush on Thursday-by backing a diplomatic force involving Ankara, Washington and Baghdad. That initiative has not, however, produced tangible results, and Turkey has accused the Iraqi Kurdish administration of giving refuge to thousands of PKK guerrillas. "Going into north Iraq would bring Turkey into a head-on disagreement with the U.S.," says Mehmet Altan, a newspaper columnist and political analyst. "That...
...study found no region had reduced the percentage of its energy supply coming from fossil carbon...