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Global Status Report On Road Safety: Time for Action...
...first glance, the WHO's first ever report on worldwide road safety reaches a basic conclusion: healthwise, you're better off living in a rich country than in a poor one. Though they're home to less than half the world's registered vehicles, low- and middle-income countries account for more than 90% of traffic fatalities. The report succeeds in spelling out the global impact of those crashes in cold, hard cash. Traffic injuries cost a whopping $518 billion a year. Poor countries generally spend more money responding to car accidents than they receive in development...
...London Reassessing the Road to War British Prime Minister Gordon Brown authorized a long-awaited inquiry into Britain's role in the deeply unpopular war in Iraq that has claimed the lives of 179 British soldiers. But news that the inquiry would be closed to the public and that its results would not come out until after the next election outraged critics and opposition parties. Foreign Secretary David Millibrand dismissed claims of "an Establishment stitch-up," saying, "If you are looking for a great conspiracy, you are not going to find...
...rage. Downtown, groups of demonstrators set several buses, a building and hundreds of garbage bins on fire, smashed the windows of state banks and destroyed ATMs. On Ghaem-Magham Street, I watched a lone woman dressed in a head-to-toe black chador standing on the side of the road, flashing the peace sign to passing cars and yelling, "Only Mousavi." The woman, a 36-year-old bank employee named Maryam, had told her children to find dinner for themselves. "What I'm doing here is more important for their future," she said. When people driving by warned her that...
Finding a comfort zone with a U.S. Administration determined to move quickly toward implementing a two-state solution has been difficult for a hawkish Israeli leader who is, at best, a reluctant traveler on that road. When Netanyahu visited Washington in May, he discovered he'd been outflanked by Obama, who had managed to get many of Israel's key congressional supporters on board with the White House push against settlements. U.S. officials were widely quoted as telling the Israelis that moving forward on a settlement freeze and peace with the Palestinians was a critical step toward mustering the Arab...