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DIED. Ta Mok, 80, last chief of the Khmer Rouge, nicknamed "the Butcher" for his role in the death of nearly 2 million Cambodians during the communist group's rule in the late 1970s; in Phnom Penh. The only Khmer Rouge leader who refused to strike a deal to defect or surrender to the government, Ta Mok was facing trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity when he died...
...tsunamis. "In western Sumatra, there is no emergency preparation beyond what would save 1% of the people here," says Kerry Sieh, a geologist at the California Institute of Technology who has spent years studying Indonesia. Sieh fears that a tsunami far deadlier than the one on July 17 could strike the western coast of Sumatra or Java at any time, and warns that the international community first needs to devote itself to the unglamorous work of building up basic seismology and education within the country, to ensure that every Indonesian in harm's way is ready to respond...
...DIED. Ta Mok, 80, last chief of the Khmer Rouge, nicknamed "the Butcher" for his role in the death of nearly 2 million Cambodians during the communist group's rule in the late 1970s; in Phnom Penh. The only Khmer Rouge leader who refused to strike a deal to defect or surrender to the government, Ta Mok was facing trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity when he died...
...Nazih Gharios, the head of the hospital, took me to the rooftop to survey the surrounding land. "Look there," he pointed to a deeply hollowed out patch of land. "There was the first air strike to hit the area." He was pointing no more than 100 meters away, and he was making me nervous. "Should we really be on the roof?" I asked. After all, Sahal Hospital just 10 kilometers away has been pounded by air strikes. This is shocking to Dr. Gharios, who has seen numerous conflicts in the past. "Hospitals and ambulances were usually off limits," he told...
Zaged Melhem, 36, a Lebanese civilian, was walking from his home in southern Beirut early Friday morning. It was still dark outside as he made his way across a bridge in his neighborhood and at once became the nearly 700th victim of an Israeli air strike. He told me he barely heard a thing before he was thrown more than 30 feet through the air with shrapnel piercing his feet and hands, and straight through his abdominal wall into his intestine. Luckily, he lived to tell about it. His best friend, who walking with...