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...Taliban militants are believed to be behind two suicide bombings in Rawalpindi on Sept. 4 that killed 27 people and are pummeling his security forces in the tribal areas. Meanwhile, the country's judges have been rolling back his edicts following the outrage generated by his attempts to unseat the popular and independent Supreme Court Chief Justice...
...time in the country, much less in parliament. Egregious absenteeism cuts across sectarian and ethnic lines: perennial no-shows include Shi'ite elder Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Sunni leader Saleh Mutlak and secular stalwarts Iyad Allawi and Adnan Pachachi. (Al-Jaafari and Allawi, both former Prime Ministers, are trying to unseat the incumbent, Nouri al-Maliki.) "There's no point in going to parliament," Allawi told TIME recently. "Nothing important is done there anyway...
...Lebanon itself, Hizballah spearheads the opposition drive to unseat the Western-backed government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. The country has been politically gridlocked since November when six ministers - including all five Shi'ites - quit the government. Siniora and his allies accuse Hizballah of pushing an agenda on behalf of Iran and Syria. The frail government has survived strikes and an indefinite opposition sit-in that has paralyzed central Beirut. It retains broad support among Lebanese Sunnis and Druze, and the sympathy of moderate Arab states and the West. The Shi'ite community, Lebanon's largest sect, overwhelmingly sides with...
...close, Williams is yet more benignly rumpled than at a distance. White hair springs out in every direction; wild black eyebrows seem to try to unseat his spectacles. Sitting next to a reporter, he affects the solicitous slump of a tutor assisting a student. His answers, however, are precise and confident. And indeed, he has some reason to be satisfied. One of his few direct powers is to determine who gets invited to the Lambeth conference. Many expected him to wait until after the Episcopalians' September deadline, and then - if they proved noncompliant - disinvite the entire American contingent. Instead...
...polls in English municipalities and for the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly. The Tories won an average of around 40% of votes in England, compared with Labour's 27%. They didn't make the hoped-for inroads in Manchester, but a similar margin could still be enough to unseat the government at national elections, due by spring...