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...Burma's Plight Cyclone Nargis' death toll is astonishing. Over 100,000 people ought not die from such a disaster. In Bangladesh we deal with floods and cyclones every year. But the Burmese junta is blind and deaf and selfish. The generals have sealed themselves off. News from halfway around the world comes to us here in Bangladesh faster than whatever trickles in from across the border with Burma. Let's hope that the horrors of this disaster will lead to the opening up of the country and a respite for its millions of suffering people. Solaiman Palash, Dhaka...
Over the centuries Europe has been a place of conflict and war where boundaries and frontiers expanded and receded at a terrible cost to millions of its citizens. Rivalries between Nations and power blocks constantly erupted. It was in the aftermath of the massive death toll and destruction of the second World War that French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman made the proposal in 1950 which would later lead to the establishment of the European Union. His first objective was to prevent further wars by building structures through which points of disagreement could be resolved peacefully. Initially this concept must have...
...worst in the nation's recent history was a series of avalanches in the 1990s that killed over 30 people. But if the hundreds of volunteers, the dozens of converted emergency 4x4s, the strategic maps and the shelter tents seem like overkill in response to the day's minor toll, they also reflect the fragility and communal sense of responsibility fostered by Iceland's isolation. Since the U.S. military pulled out in 2006, Icelanders take the manifestations of their isolation - whether it's a lack of fresh produce or facing the forces of nature without any immediate help - with...
...retrieve assault rifles and join the fighting. By its end several days later, much of Abyei was a smoldering ruin. Fighters continued to loot and torch thatched huts in rival areas. The northern army said 21 of its men had been killed. The southerners refused to give a death toll, but the bodies of several of their guerrillas lay in the streets, their boots removed...
Panic Can Be Your FriendWhen disaster strikes, a troubling human response can inflate the death toll: people freeze up. They shut down, becoming suddenly limp and still. That's what happened to some people on Sept. 28, 1994, when the M.V. Estonia went down in the Baltic Sea, the worst sea disaster in modern European history...