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...able to afford the price of a first-class train ticket in large part due to the economic reforms that Singh set in motion as far back as the early 1990s?the admiration arises from the main reason why they live in Bombay: to make money. Bombay gets struck again and again because it is, more than any other Indian city, all about money; the migrants who flock there call it a "golden songbird...
Since the kidnapping on Wednesday, Israel’s attacks have struck deeper into the country. The Israeli air force bombed and forced the closure of Beirut’s Hariri Airport; destroyed major roads leading out of the country; and attacked major ports, including the one in Tripoli, Lebanon’s second largest city...
...He’s simply a cosmopolitan intellectual that represents the very best of the Iranian tradition,” Qureshi said. “He struck me as a contemplative, quiet-spoken public intellectual...
...Beirut airport is a favorite target of the Israelis: they struck it in 1996, 1993 and most famously in 1968, when Israeli commandos blew up 13 Middle East Airlines planes in retaliation for an attack in Athens by Palestinians. The airport, recently rebuilt during a Beirut reconstruction plan led by the late Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, is a lifeblood of Lebanon's postwar recovery. "Tourism in Lebanon is finished if this continues," Joseph Sarkis, Lebanon's Minister of Tourism...
...began raining down on northern Israel. Then, in the ensuing chaos, a number of Hizballah foot soldiers crossed the border and ambushed a two-vehicle Israeli military patrol, killing three of the soldiers and dragging two others back into Lebanon. The attack was clearly planned in advance. The militants struck at a spot obscured from a nearby watchtower, and when a tank pursued them across the border soon after, explosives planted in the ground destroyed it. The four soldiers inside are now "presumed dead," according to the Israeli military...