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...often provoke unrest. The PCC's reaction was swift. On Thursday night, bandits armed with grenades and machine guns attacked police stations and left five officers dead. Over the weekend they stepped up their attacks with a series of bombings, ambushes and drive-by shootings that took the death toll to 52. And on Sunday, they bombed 11 banks and a shopping center and burned more than 80 buses...
...Libya's isolation, which was hurting its vital petroleum industry; in fact, U.S. oil companies were lobbying hard from the mid 1990s for a rehabilitation of Libya, in order to be there first in the upgrading of its aging oil infrastructure. As American and international sanctions were taking their toll and the stagnation was slowly killing Gadfhafi's regime, he offered a major gesture, turning Libyan intelligence agents over for trial in the downing of of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland...
...Toll-like receptors (TLRs), which lie on the surface of certain white blood cells, serve to detect invading viruses and bacteria. They then cause the production of cytokine proteins, which activate other immune cells against the infection...
...died. On April 27, at least five soldiers were killed in two landmine blasts. The same day, the decapitated bodies of five young men thought to be Tamils-two with their hands tied behind their backs-were found in a ditch near a rubber plantation outside Colombo. The death toll from the past three weeks of bloodletting: around...
...trace the subtle but undeniable links between the government and the murderers. As in many genocides, it is difficult to determine how many people have died. While the World Health Organization estimated in October 2004 that 70,000 had died since March 2004, other estimates put the death toll three to four times higher. But exact number of deaths is irrelevant. The Janjaweed militias continue to use such tactics as filling wells with sand and raping non-Arab women in order to breed “Arab” offspring. And our concern for the region only grew this week...