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...human population has grown in the Pantanal, the vast wetland in central Brazil, people and big cats - namely the South American jaguar - are encroaching increasingly on each other's territory. When conflict occurs, as it inevitably does, the cats are usually the ones who lose...
...South Waziristan now seems like a state within the state, and Baitullah Mehsud is running this like a head of government. Now he's an all-powerful man whose writ and command is visible across the tribal belt." -On Mehsud's burgeoning influence. (Washington Post...
...uniting disparate factions around a common cause. But instead of channeling those talents toward building an empire, Mehsud is trying to bring one to its knees. The shadowy Pakistani Taliban commander, whose vertiginous rise to infamy landed him on 2008's TIME 100 List, has transformed the badlands of South Waziristan into al-Qaeda's most important redoubt. Among the atrocities attributed to Mehsud is the brazen assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Dec. 2007. Mehsud has denied involvement, but even if he's innocent of that crime there's no shortage of reasons TIME dubbed...
...here." -Naseem Khan, a business owner in Wana, the capital of South Waziristan. (U.S. News and World Report...
...treasure. During the 1990s, the Alliance began expanding, inducting nine new members from Eastern Europe's former Soviet territories and satellites that sought protection from Russian power. But that program seemed to hit a wall last August, when Georgia fought a five-day war against Russia for control of South Ossetia. Georgia, whose bid to join the Alliance had been strongly backed by the U.S., was viewed by many Western officials as having provoked a senseless fight that would have obliged NATO to get involved had Georgia been a full member. Last summer's confrontation put Georgia's prospective membership...