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Société Générale also likes Turkey and South Korea among emerging-market economies and Australia and New Zealand in the developed group...
They wouldn't be the only ones enjoying a moment of levity amid the cataclysmic weather. "It's going to keep snowing in D.C. until Al Gore cries uncle," Republican Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina wrote on Twitter. But with the snow still falling, locals took advantage of the time off to tromp through the picturesque drifts piling up on mostly vacant streets. In the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, where a Facebook-fueled flash mob engaged in a massive snowball fight on Saturday, residents skied through deserted intersections, shoveled off stoops and walked their dogs - trying, perhaps...
...Last year, more than a thousand Pakistanis were killed in 80 Taliban-orchestrated suicide attacks at volleyball games, pilgrimages, police academies, army bases and more. In response, Pakistan's army swept into the northern and southern ends of the tribal belt, particularly the Mehsud tribes' homeland in South Waziristan. With the Mehsuds flushed out of their stronghold, it is easier for the Drones to pick them off. "Because of improved cooperation between the American and Pakistani intelligence services," says analyst Masood, "the leadership of the Pakistani Taliban can't hide itself as effectively." And since the Mehsud tribesmen...
...Agreeing on a successor to Mehsud, who has led the organization for less than a year, won't be easy, but a Taliban commander quoted in the news said it would probably be Waliur Rehman, a high-ranking fellow Mehsud tribesman from South Waziristan. But he may not be acceptable to other Taliban fighters scattered across the lawless borderlands. Although various regional commanders are united under the organization Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, their reasons for becoming Taliban are varied. The ideology of replacing the pro-Western Islamabad government with an al-Qaeda-inspired Islamic caliphate is often a flag...
...Marriage, of course, is not the only path toward assimilation. As the number of North Koreans living in the South has grown, support networks have too. The government has created work and study programs geared toward North Koreans, and churches help by providing practical information and coaching to cope with culture shock. Dozens of civic groups are also trying to raise awareness or fight for North Korean defectors' rights and several North Korean newspapers, radio channels and associations have been set up in the past few years. Kang's 18-year-old niece, who arrived in South Korea in June...