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...insurgents launched their attack around 9:30 a.m., targeting several different locations in the center of the city in swift succession - a bank, two shopping centers, a luxury hotel and government buildings, including Karzai's palace, where several members of the cabinet were being sworn in. According to a Taliban spokesman who spoke to the Associated Press, 20 armed militants carried out the attack, including two suicide bombers who blew themselves up near the palace and in a traffic circle a half mile away. One explosives-laden vehicle was suspected to have been stolen from the government, which would have...
What's needed? At the U.N. on Thursday, institutional investors from the U.S., Europe and Australia who represent more than $13 trillion in assets called for Congress and other policymakers to take swift action, principally through a cap-and-trade bill, which would limit the amount of carbon industry can produce and allow manufacturers to buy and swap credits, so that those who come in under the limit can sell polluting permits to those who exceed it. It's speculative capitalism with a bright green tint. For the idea to work, the private-investment community needs TLC from government policy...
...Preparations, meanwhile, are under way to hold the country's first automated elections. Some 50 million voters will elect a new President, nearly 300 lawmakers and 17,500 local government officials. Voters hope a swift and transparent electronic vote count will replace the arduous manual tally that has traditionally lasted several weeks and offered considerable scope for cheating. "We may be able to modernize the way we vote ... but can we really claim progress if some of us still resort to the Stone Age practice of just bludgeoning opponents," presidential candidate Manuel Villar told reporters. Over the past three weeks...
...Northwest/Delta plane flying from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian, allegedly tried to ignite explosives concealed in his underwear but was overpowered by other passengers. The incident prompted a swift escalation of security measures by airlines, snarling holiday transportation on one of the year's busiest weekends. The apparent lapse that allowed Abdulmutallab to travel--he had been placed on a list of persons of interest but not on the so-called no-fly list after his father warned authorities about his radical tendencies--has led to increased scrutiny...
...trapped by the fighting. A posthumous editorial that appeared in the Sunday Leader, the paper that Wickrematunge founded, immediately after his murder addressed Rajapaksa directly: "In the wake of my death, I know you will make all the usual sanctimonious noises and call upon the police to hold a swift and thorough inquiry. But like all the inquiries you have ordered in the past, nothing will come of this one, too." The widely circulated piece sent shockwaves beyond Sri Lanka. "You will never be allowed to forget that my death took place under your watch," it read. (Read a TIME...