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...Other places bear the same taint. In Sri Lanka and the Maldives, businesses have watched tourists disappear and dollars dry up. Even Bali, more than 4,300 km away from the hardest hit Indonesian province of Aceh, has seen canceled bookings. At an emergency summit of the World Tourism Organization in Phuket early this month, Secretary General Francesco Frangialli called the cancellations in the region "irrational." Speaking to delegates from around the globe, he urged governments to take swift action to get the tourists back "in order to alleviate the suffering of the affected populations...
...calm that is currently prevailing in our territories signals the start of a new era, the start of a hopeful peace." MAHMOUD ABBAS, Palestinian President, on the cease-fire agreement reached between his government and Israel at a summit in Egypt last week...
Longtime observers of the Middle East could be forgiven for experiencing a moment of d?j? vu in the spectacle of Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas declaring an end to hostilities in an Arab Red Sea port on Tuesday. The Sharm el-Sheik summit repeated many of the themes echoed by the two men when they met 18 months ago at the Jordanian port of Aqaba, and the resulting truce, was, then as now, hailed as a new beginning. That deal collapsed within weeks, and many of the factors that contributed to its demise have not been fundamentally altered...
...Fatah chief. To do that, Abbas must deal with Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, who refuses to cleanse the Cabinet of Yasser Arafat's cronies and opposes Abbas' pick for Interior Minister. Referring to the upcoming talks, Qurei told an aide last week, "I expect another Aqaba failure," likening the summit to one held in Jordan...
...under mock bloody sheets to denounce the killings. Still, Pisani says, "Most people are simply too scared to speak up." It wasn't always like this. In the 1990s, Naples experienced a momentary renaissance as tourism boomed and civic pride swelled in the wake of the 1994 G-7 summit held in the city. But an unemployment rate of close to 20%, youth joblessness over 60% and the ubiquity of the Camorra stand in the way of a permanent comeback. "Naples gets remembered and forgotten as people see fit," Pisani says. "This Mob war is now endemic to Naples...