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...riots came hot on the heels of a U.S. air strike last week in southern Afghanistan, which left around 30 Afghan civilians dead as planes battered Taliban fighters. Even before the convoy accident, Western diplomats say many frustrated young men were already looking for a provocation. "Underlying it all is the fact that young men have not seen any tangible change in their lives in terms of either jobs or basic services," said aid worker Holly Ritchie, who works for a British charity in Kabul. Much of their anger is directed squarely at the very people ostensibly in the country...
...satisfaction. Mosoco's victims will be added to some two dozen killed in violence last week stemming from the dismissal in March of almost half the East Timorese defense force. The 591 soldiers, most of whom come from the western part of the country, had been led on strike by Lieutenant Gast?o Salsinha, claiming they'd been passed over for promotion and unjustly accused of having mounted only half-hearted resistance to Indonesia's 24-year occupation of the former Portuguese colony, which ended in 1999. For four days in late April they demonstrated in Dili. Then, on April...
...Everything is out of control. They are using the guerrilla system of giving orders," Reindado says. "The intention is to go there to shoot to kill. To kill them all if they can. They give ammunition to the soldiers, who take six or seven magazines.'' Reinado says the strike force comprised 170 soldiers from Metinaro and the First Battalion...
...received. She founded a school in impoverished East St. Louis, Ill. In Haiti, where she had a home, she trained as a voodoo priest and grew apricots and avocados in a lush oasis that she opened to the public. At 82, she went on a 47-day hunger strike to protest the U.S.'s forced repatriation of Haitian refugees. "My job," she said, "is to create a useful legacy...
...sports that can accommodate people of any size and any level of fitness, as long as they can keep their paddle dipping in and out of the water in time with their teammates. "There are no heroes, no one to drop the pop fly or strike out," says Kerkmann...