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...violence erupted in central Nigeria after the killing of a local leader. More than 50 people were killed in an attack on the Egon community by militia from the Tiv ethnic group. Up to 50,000 people fled their homes after a series of revenge attacks. Ethnic and religious unrest has racked Nigeria since it returned to democracy two years ago. CHINA Safe Harbor China granted safe passage to a North Korean family of seven who sought asylum at the Beijing office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. China normally repatriates North Koreans, but the family were allowed...
NORTHERN IRELAND Violence Returns to Belfast Sectarian unrest is a regular summertime feature of life in Ulster, but the strife reached a disturbing new level last week when Protestant protesters blocked a group of Catholic children from going to their school in a divided area of north Belfast. The trouble quickly escalated into successive nights of rioting. Families on both sides were attacked in their homes, and more than 60 police officers were hurt trying to keep the factions apart. Police said the violence was largely orchestrated by Protestant paramilitaries who have turned against the Good Friday agreement...
...INDIA Nagaland Unrest Fighting between police and demonstrators left 15 people dead in Manipur, northeast India. The rioters burned the state legislative assembly and other buildings in protest at a government extension of a four-year cease-fire with the separatist Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland. The government issued a "shoot-on-sight" order to police to enforce an indefinite curfew across the state...
...streets for Wahid, there is considerable doubt over whether the president can rouse the tens, or even hundreds of thousands, of supporters it may take to tip the scales back in favor of the ailing, half-blind president. And the military is unlikely to tolerate much by way of unrest in the capital, even if Wahid's supporters manage to vent their rage in the provinces...
...praised the Secretary of State for criticizing Israel's efforts to end deadly Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks. The editorial called Israel's reaction to the Palestinian attacks “aggressive” and stated that it “represented a drastic escalation of the ongoing unrest in the region...