Word: stricken
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...bomb in a taxi at Zaveri Bazaar, a crowded jewelry market, police say the Hanifs had packed explosives in the bag they stashed in the taxi's trunk, then detonated it at the Gateway. With their youngest daughter, Shakira, in tow, the Hanifs then walked through the panic-stricken crowds to safety. Although Hanif's third child, a teenage boy, was not involved, Maria says Hanif's wife and teenage daughter "were both willing accomplices...
...government members drawn from insurgents' ranks denounced the French as Gbagbo "puppets" who framed Coulibaly. The increased tension comes just two weeks after the resignation of President Charles Taylor in neighboring Liberia quelled civil war there - and raised hopes that calm and stability might return to the entire violence-stricken region. Along with Coulibaly's arrest and the wave of Abidjan detentions, passions were inflamed when Ivorian rebels killed two soldiers in France's 4,000-strong peacekeeping force imposing a cease-fire. "The French arrests prevented the murder of Ivory Coast's democratically elected President, but the bloodshed continues...
...guarantees to North Korea goes to the heart of the Bush administration's internal divisions over how to deal with a Stalinist state named by President Bush as part of his "Axis of Evil" - should the U.S. seek a new agreement that rewards North Korea with aid for its stricken economy if it agrees to scrap its nuclear program and submit to a tight and intrusive inspection system, or should it seek regime change in the belief that getting rid of the dictator Kim Jong Il is the only surefire way to stop his nuclear program. The mixed messages from...
...field fractured, with no heavyweight to take on Schwarzenegger. Sensing a disaster, such influential figures as former Governor Jerry Brown and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown took to the cable news shows to suggest that Davis should step aside and beg Feinstein to run in his place. Meanwhile, panic-stricken union officials, who had pledged to stand with Davis, started putting out the word privately that he should not count on the $10 million in assistance he has asked from them...
...disease, the deadly virus capable of devastating a nation's agricultural livestock. Too bad he hasn't done more to eradicate foot-in-mouth disease, a lesser-known affliction that compels Japanese politicians to make ludicrous public statements. In the past month alone, a slew of lawmakers has been stricken in the latest epidemic...