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...department to placate conservative mujahedin warlords and fundamentalist clerics. With a violent insurgency in the south and riots in Kabul highlighting the government's unpopularity, Karzai is seeking to shore up his support base by courting conservative Islamists. Most girls' schools have already closed in the south and southeast under spiraling threats, and groups like Human Rights Watch are concerned that policing public morals could divert attention from the bigger battle to stem unrest in the volatile southern provinces...
...handful of others following the industry's inevitable consolidation. His recent investment in Israel is merely part of Orascom's $1.3 billion acquisition of a 19.3% stake in Hutchison Telecom, based in Hong Kong. Sawiris seeks to increase his stake to 51%, thereby extending Orascom's reach to Southeast Asia through Hutchison's businesses in India, Indonesia and Vietnam. From relatively small beginnings less than a decade ago, when it established Mobinil in Egypt, Orascom, which trades on the Cairo-Alexandria stock exchange but is controlled by Sawiris' Rome-based parent company, Weather Investments, became a major presence throughout...
...Israeli border, crashing booms of Israeli shellfire exploded in a nearby valley at the foot of Shebaa Farms mountainside, an Israeli- occupied strip of territory that Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 war. Israeli aircraft also destroyed three key bridges across the Litani River, cutting off much of southeast Lebanon from the capital. One Lebanese soldier and two civilians were killed when Qasimiyeh Bridge, six miles north of Tyre, was blown up. Lebanese troops blocked the roads leading to the destroyed bridges and instructed motorists to return north and get out of the area. "This is not good...
...have been sensible. New antiterrorism legislation includes an offense of "acts preparatory to terrorism" and measures aimed at clamping down on incitement to terrorism by hatemongers. MI5 has been authorized to recruit 1,000 additional operatives, and is establishing regional offices to improve its coverage beyond London and the Southeast. transec, the security division of the British government's Department for Transport, is piloting trials of new security equipment to enhance the protection of public transport. When preventive action goes wrong, as in the shooting of Menezes and during the east London raid, confidence in the police and the security...
...beds for all the injured, and some are parked in cots in the hallways or on bamboo mats on the floor. Even the healthy are taking shelter in hospitals. "For every patient you have three to four family members," says Harsaran Pandey, the World Health Organization's spokesperson for Southeast Asia. "A lot of the inpatients [stay] because they and their families have no place to go. As no hospital is geared to deal with such a large human populace on its premises, this is putting a heavy strain on water and sanitation facilities." So far, though, cholera and dysentery...