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...leadership of Zaire, a nation of 45 million people the size of Western Europe and rich in diamonds, gold, cobalt and copper, came with stunning speed. Mobutu's ouster was the culmination of a seven-month military campaign that began as an uprising among Tutsi tribesmen in southeastern Zaire after they were ordered expelled from the country. With backing from the anti-Mobutu governments of Uganda, Rwanda and Angola, Kabila took control of and expanded the rebel movement, sweeping east to west across the vast Central African nation almost without opposition until he was camped on the doorstep of Kinshasa...
...part of its bid to meet E.U. standards, Turkey last year approved legislation making "honor killings" - the practice of men killing their female relatives for perceived immoral behavior - punishable by life in prison. But a growing number of female suicides in southeastern Turkey, the country's poorest and most conservative region, this year has raised suspicion that women are now being forced to kill themselves to spare their male relatives a jail term. In the province of Batman (pop. 500,000) hospital records show there have been 31 attempted female suicides this year, already more than last year's total...
...cell at all times except for the 90 minutes he'll get five days a week to go outside into a caged courtyard to exercise on his own, with no contact with other inmates. This is life at ADX Florence, the maximum security prison in the high desert of southeastern Colorado where the convicted 9/11 conspirator will almost certainly begin his life sentence. (The Bureau of Prisons won't officially confirm his destination until he arrives...
...conducted in Urdu and English though an interpreter, Hassan Abbas, a research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government.The Harvard Crimson: Tell us about the work you’re doing now, especially in regards to education.Mukhtar Mai: We now have the first schools in Meerwala [a town in Southeastern Pakistan]. I think education is the identity of a person. It stops you from the wrong path, and helps you find direction in life.THC: What do you think of President Musharraf and the difficulties you’ve faced politically?MM: This is part of the entire process...
...Pound 335,” Consgrove wrote in the e-mail. “This will be a casual drop in/drop out session for those who wish to speak with the therapist and other students who are dealing with this loss.” Cusco, a city in southeastern Peru, is world famous for its white water rafting. Though no details about the accident have been released, some of the rapids in the area, including several famous stretches, are of type V. Shakir is the second Harvard student to die in an accident in Peru in recent years. In June...