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While the U.S. and its allies have dithered for months over whether to deploy more troops outside Kabul, Afghanistan's countless warlords have established a reign of terror in the nation's small towns and rural areas. At the same time, a recrudescent Taliban, aided by its al-Qaeda allies, has stepped up attacks on U.S. troops and reconstruction efforts in southern and eastern regions of the country, assassinating 13 aid workers since May. The latest, a French U.N. employee, was shot in the face and killed early last week by suspected Taliban gunmen in the southern town of Ghazni...
Displaying her bejeweled tiara and regal bearing, QUEEN ELIZABETH II greeted George W. Bush at a formal state dinner last week, noting, "I have welcomed no fewer than seven of your predecessors." Her reign began in 1952, 23 years after the first of her six TIME cover appearances...
Miami police have taken extensive measures to secure the summit, closing downtown streets and preemptively detaining some demonstrators. A police press release last Friday warned that “radical activists attempting to reign anarchy on our community may attempt to blend in and bring disruption and violence...
...course, you won't read about that in the Daily News, Zimbabwe's only independent daily newspaper. The publication was shut down in September after the Supreme Court ruled that it had broken the law by not registering under the country's tough new media regulations. "There is a reign of terror against all journalists," said Bill Saidi, editor of the Daily News on Sunday, at a meeting last week of his paper's supporters in London. "The independence we thought we were entitled to is not the independence we have." Publishers and journalists can't look to the courts...
Having avoided the moral-less existence of single parenthood, the members are given full reign in assigning ratings. Their responsibility is to serve American parents, so they can “decide what movies they want their children...