Word: rift
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...Hindu-Muslim animosity has had several flash points in India's history, starting with the Muslim Mughal conquest of the subcontinent in the 16th century?something India's nationalist Hindu opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is still attempting to undo with a campaign to demolish some Mughal mosques. That rift has driven the subcontinent's history?from partition, to three wars between India and Pakistan, the long crisis over Kashmir, and a nuclear arms race. Political parties such as the BJP have exploited those tensions to gain votes, further widening the rift. In Bombay, ironically, religious tensions are eased...
...break the international blockade on funding to the Palestinian Authority since it assumed power. A senior Hamas official told Time, "The attack [at Kerem Shalom] must also be understood as an attack on Haniyeh and the negotiations with [Abbas]." The involvement of Hamas's military wing suggests a widening rift within Hamas, with the political leadership in Gaza and the West Bank led by Haniyeh on one side, and the military wing and Hamas leaders based in Syria on the other...
...reputation as the nation's coolest summer rock happening. Coachella's relatively underwhelming lineup last April was probably hurt more than helped by the last-minuterecruitment of Madonna, who had some hard-core rockers grumbling that the festival hadbesmirchedits indie-rock soul with Material Girl pop gloss. The resulting rift - left coast trendies in the desert vs. Eastern roots rockers - has polarized fans, who have been duking it out in blogs and message boards for months...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is better known for a blustering, antagonistic style of politics that has made him the star of Latin America's resurgent left. But as he flew into in Puerto Iguazu, Argentina, on Thursday to try and head off a rift between his left-wing allies Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina over Bolivia's abrupt nationalizaton of its natural gas and oil industries this week, Chavez suddenly found himself in the unfamiliar role of quiet diplomat. And his success or failure may well determine whether or not he becomes the sort of regional leader he's always aspired...
...Shimbun newspaper called the speech a "dangerous development," but Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi downplayed it, saying his government would respond "in a cool-headed manner." Unimpressed, last Friday Korea's Foreign Ministry rebuffed Koizumi's suggestion that he and Roh hold a summit meeting to help heal the rift. Japanese papers like the Nishi Nihon Shimbun have attributed Roh's pugnacity to his domestic political concerns, suggesting that Japan need not take his speech too seriously: "An uncompromising stance against Japan plays well into the anti-Japan nationalist sentiment of the people, which could improve his low approval ratings...