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Naivasha and the nearby city of Nakuru have seen a spate of killings in recent days as Kikuyus launched revenge attacks against people they say were responsible for attacks that killed dozens of their tribesmen further north and pushed hundreds of thousands from their homes. Those killings have changed the tenor of the violence, which the opposition initially characterized as a spontaneous surge of rage among people furious about the vote. It now appears to have devolved into simple revenge killing...
...Lebanese police investigator into a spate of bomb attacks as well as the activities of al-Qaeda-inspired groups in the country, Captain Wissam Eid had no shortage of potential enemies. One of those foes got to Eid Friday morning, killing him and at least three other people in a powerful car bomb explosion, nearly identical to the attacks he had been investigating...
Congress watchers may feel a little unsettled when the Senate returns to work Tuesday. In recent days there has been a spate of oddly bipartisan comments, even a can-do tone among lawmakers. Just last Friday, the normally contentious Republican Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell said, "If we can work together... we can quickly have a significant accomplishment to start the year." Across the Capitol on that same day, the usually combative Democratic Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said, "Democrats welcome President Bush's willingness to work together with Congress," and promised to work with Republicans in the coming weeks...
...long as I've been looking at it. I think we can survive and will, and could do it in a manageable way. But until we start taking steps, people will be more and more frightened about what we're facing - and that's why you're seeing this spate of end-of-the-world stuff...
...only a matter of time. A suicide bomber struck in the Pakistani city of Lahore today, ending a two-week lull since the spate of spontaneous violence that followed the December 27 assassination of former prime minister and parliamentary candidate Benazir Bhutto. At least 23 riot police were killed and another 58 police and passers-by were injured when a man detonated his vest packed with ball bearings outside Lahore's High Court, according to Police Superintendent Aftab Cheema. Police have recovered the suicide bomber's head, which was thrown some 100 meters across a busy commercial square...