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...Pakistan agreed a surprise cease-fire - the first in 14 years - along the Line of Control, their de facto border in the disputed territory. Whether Indian PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee will hold talks with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on the sidelines of a South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit in Islamabad in January, however, is unclear. Peace Threat SRI LANKA Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran warned the country's divided leadership he would revive his demands for an independent state if the peace process remained stalled. He denied accusations by President Chandrika Kumaratunga that the rebels are using...
...major trade summit this week is expected to draw hundreds of officials, tens of thousands of protesters, eight Harvard students and an Institute of Politics (IOP) fellow...
Miami police have taken extensive measures to secure the summit, closing downtown streets and preemptively detaining some demonstrators. A police press release last Friday warned that “radical activists attempting to reign anarchy on our community may attempt to blend in and bring disruption and violence...
There is also concern about the safety of the protesters. Police actions have injured hundreds at past trade protests, including dozens with rubber bullets outside the last regional FTAA summit in Quebec City...
Garcia Marquez, 75, who has been fighting lymphatic cancer since 1999, intends this book to be the first of three volumes. It ends with him as a journalist, just 27 years old, flying to cover a summit meeting in Geneva and writing a love letter to his future wife. By that time we have seen him grow up, mostly in the small town of Aracataca, on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. For his first eight years, he saw little of his parents, whom he will reimagine years later as the thwarted couple in Love in the Time of Cholera...