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...sanctions and who invited the U.S. into the region to settle the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait in 1990. Once Gaddafi's Palestinian friends began negotiating with Israel, he began focusing on Libya's African rather than Arab alliances. In 2001, he hosted the inaugural meeting of the new African Union...
...violence and social and economic instability. "The solution to our country's problems is in our hands," Préval told thousands of supporters. "The solution begins with dialogue. No one else can do it for us, not the IMF, the World Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank, the European Union, Bilateral Cooperation or the United Nations. We thank them for their support. Please, help me, help the country, help yourselves...
...individuals, families and companies. Mohamed al Fayed, the Egyptian-born owner of swish department store Harrods, has 12,140 hectares; the Danish vice chairman of Lego, Kjeld Kirk Christiansen, 20,230 hectares. After the breakdown of Highland clan society in the turbulent years that followed parliamentary union with England in 1707, clan chiefs brutally evicted their tenants, clearing the land for more profitable sheep farming. It was only after the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 that ordinary Scots were able to take back control over the way Scottish land was owned and used. Now the Scottish government...
...Wagoner says. It's sure to be on the agenda. So too will GM's unhealthy U.S. health-care bill: $5.3 billion last year. Wagoner and the U.A.W. have agreed on $15 billion in long-term savings on retiree health care, but Wagoner needs rank-and-file concessions, and union officials are talking tough. "It was probably the most difficult backward step for us to take in the history of our union," says U.A.W. chief Ron Gettelfinger, referring to the $15 billion "giveback...
...have been married for a year and a half, according to their Facebook profiles. But even though Massachusetts’ same-sex marriage law is more than 23 months old, you won’t find any record of Chauhan’s and Bray’s union at the Cambridge courthouse. Opponents of same-sex unions warn that Massachusetts’ law will undermine the sanctity of marriage. But the Facebook has already thrown sanctity out the window. Chauhan and Bray say they are best friends, and that they use their relationship-status designation on Facebook...