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...Russia to join. The treaty requires industrialized countries to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 2012. Unbroken Circle MIDDLE EAST The Palestinian Cabinet declared a state of emergency as Israel continued a major military operation inside the Gaza Strip, intended, it said, to stop Palestinian militants firing rockets at villages in southern Israel. More than 50 Palestinians and five Israelis died in some of the bloodiest fighting of the four-year-old intifadeh, as Israeli tanks rolled into northern Gaza and troops sought to create a buffer zone along the border. Palestinian militant group Hamas said it would continue its rocket...
...hodgepodge of characters I played with had more true diversity than Harvard’s exemplary student body. Incredibly talented, experienced players played shoulder to shoulder with uncoordinated rookies who made catching a slant look like rocket science. I took the field with middle-aged men who had children and regular jobs, a crazy eighteen-year-old linebacker who’d already suffered six concussions (apparently he once broke his helmet, got knocked out, was carted off the field in a stretcher, and then ran back on the field, strapped on his badly broken helmet, and kept playing, again...
...spotted about 60 miles to the west of the dam, near the town of Woltanri? The area doesn't have a river worth damming, former residents say, but it does have a missile base, as well as, according to a frequent visitor, a munitions plant. An accidental explosion of rocket propellant--possibly a missile launch gone awry--could have caused the mushroom cloud, analysts say. Another possibility: Pyongyang blew up something to keep the world guessing about its nuclear intentions--a tactic the regime has used in the past...
...Major General Peter Chiarelli, commander of the 1st Cavalry Division, knows firsthand. On a hot late-summer day, his soldiers entered Baghdad's Sadr City slum to quell attacks from militiamen loyal to rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Chiarelli's troops came under fierce fire as dozens of rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) pounded their vehicles, and roadside bombs blew the tracks off a tank. For four hours, the two forces battled until the outmatched gunmen melted into the shadows. "We killed folks. There's no doubt we did," says Chiarelli. He knew the fighting would soon resume, but he sent...
...talks this week. Some argue that the alliance already has its hands full. The Afghanistan mission, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), is trying to counter increased violence in the run-up to the Oct. 9 presidential election. Afghan President Hamid Karzai canceled a rally last week after a rocket was fired at his helicopter. The rocket missed, and his chopper flew back to Kabul. Nongovernmental organizations complain that NATO is too thin on the ground to provide security. "The NATO Secretary-General said the alliance was ready" for an Iraq mission, says a top French Defense Ministry official...