Word: unrested
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...question of the role that climate disruption will play in national unrest and regional strife in an increasingly interesting question. I believe that any scenario for international relations a few decades into the century will have to take into consideration the impacts there...
...computer outlets on board?for visiting I.O.C. delegates. Streets are lined with 100,000 bid posters and brightened up with huge urns of fake carnations, presently covered with plastic sheets to keep off the soot. The People's Armed Police, the paramilitary force that suppresses domestic unrest, has whitewashed median strips, and near Tiananmen Square, workers have painted the desiccated February grass green...
...After two decades of repressive security measures and social unrest, Bahrainis voted overwhelmingly in favor of a new democracy charter that will give the tiny island nation a constitutional monarchy with an elected parliament and an independent judiciary. Around 98% of voters backed the reforms, which are due to be implemented...
...they loathe Saddam, Arab leaders are afraid to support a plan to take him out. Ordinary Arabs blame U.S.-led sanctions for causing starvation and disease in Iraq. Moreover, they ask, why pick on Iraq while no action is taken against Israel? A war on Iraq could ignite domestic unrest in the Islamic world...
...Houphouet in 1993, however, Cote d'Ivoire has undergone accelerating political and economic instability. Henri Konan Bedie, then president of the National Assembly, succeeded Houphouet and continued his predecessor's autocratic ruling style; winning election in 1995 following an opposition party boycott and a period of intense violence and unrest. Turmoil rose within the army due to unpaid salaries and poor living conditions, and student riots were brutally crushed by the Bedie regime...