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...Israel, once again, may have succeeded in taking out a few Hamas commanders and slowing the rain of homemade rockets landing on its soil from Gaza. But it has fallen into a familiar trap. Once again, their mutual loathing of Israel has helped warring Palestinian militias overcome their fratricidal tendencies. When the Fatah-Hamas power struggle turns into a shooting war, the most effective way of getting a cease-fire appears to be firing a few dozen badly aimed rockets into southern Israel and then waiting for the Israelis to intervene - which the Israelis invariably do. And when under fire...
...back home, the news isn't so golden. Thanks to an aging, shrinking population and lackluster consumer spending, sales of full-size vehicles in Japan last year were the lowest since 1977. Mighty Toyota may have posted a record global profit of $18.6 billion for 2006, but its home-soil sales slumped...
...crisis is worst in Vidarbha, an orange- and cotton-growing region in central India famed for its black soil and the fact that Mahatma Gandhi built an ashram and lived there for a time in the 1930s. Now Indians know it as their nation's rural suicide capital. According to Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti, or Vidarbha People's Protest Forum, an activist group that keeps track of farmer suicides in the area and lobbies the government for help, more than 1,250 farmers committed suicide in Vidarbha's six central districts alone in 2006, up from...
That is what you call a power play. Be it a scuffle with foreign consortiums on Russian soil, or in pricing battles with Russia's neighbors, Gazprom wins very much in style of the proverbial Soviet Army steamroller: inefficient, unwieldy and mismanaged, it crushes foes by its mammoth weight and monopoly gas supply. In January 2006, for instance, when the Ukrainians balked at Gazprom's price, Medvedev turned off the taps. Pay or freeze, he told them. They paid...
...Padilla's path from the brig to a Miami courtroom has been riddled with fits and starts. On June 11 in New York (where he had first been held), the ACLU filed a petition for Padilla's release, arguing that as an American citizen captured on U.S. soil, he had to be let go or charged and tried in a civilian court. In December 2003, a federal appeals court in New York agreed, but then the government dodged a bullet: the Supreme Court ruled that Padilla's petition should have been filed in South Carolina, not New York...