Word: tensioning
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...contest is imbued with nationalist rivalries that extend from the fans in the bleachers to the flavors on the elaborate platters. In fact, for the young chefs who compete in the contest, founded 22 years ago by Paul Bocuse, one of France's most revered chefs, navigating the tension between the desire to demonstrate the glories of their national cuisine - to say nothing of their own creativity - and a jury that tends to favor strongly the classic French style is precisely the challenge. (See pictures from the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing...
...invasion of South Ossetia last summer and the Bush administration’s plan to construct a NATO-backed missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic are just two reminders of how tense Russo-American relations have become in the post-Soviet era. Instead of encouraging further tension in this relationship by fixating on the ideological character of the Castro regime, it is imperative that the United States defuse tensions in the Caribbean and limit the Kremlin’s opportunities to stir up trouble in our southern backyard...
...current Kurdish-Arab tension over ownership of northern Iraq dates back to Saddam Hussein's policies during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, when his regime murdered tens of thousands of Iraqi Kurds and forcibly displaced hundreds of thousands more, resettling the territory with Iraqi Arabs from further south. After the 1991 Gulf War, the U.S. protected a Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq, and after the 2003 invasion, the Peshmerga moved down to take control of parts of Diyala, Nineveh and oil-rich Kirkuk, all of which they claim as historically Kurdish. Iraq's new constitution promised that...
...Underneath the tension over election security, then, is the knottier problem of where to draw the boundaries of the Kurdistan Regional Government's authority. The Kurdish alliance is confident of winning votes in Khanaqin, which was under Peshmerga control until last August. "There are a lot of folks up there who really don't consider themselves being a part of Diyala province," said Thompson at a U.S. base outside Baquba. "You talk to folks, and they're like, 'Governor who? Governor Ra'ad? He never visits us. We don't get anything from Diyala province.' ... The Kurds provide for basic...
...what that way forward might be, deputy information minister Bright Matonga told the BBC: "There is not going to be any negotiations. I think that process is done, concluded ... and the President will form a new cabinet." - With reporting by Correspondents inside Zimbabwe See pictures of political tension in Zimbabwe...