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...Musharraf knew he was playing with fire by attacking a mosque and risking civilian casualties. The authorities weren't saying how many noncombatants had been killed, but, given the vicious, close-quarter fighting and the thousands of students, including women and children, inside the complex, the miracle was that more people...
...Gaza the members of Hamas have stripped off their masks, because they are the victors. For months Hamas and its rival, Fatah, loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas, brawled for power in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza--until June 10, when the shooting erupted into a climactic, vicious battle. Hamas didn't so much destroy the Fatah forces as cow them into surrender: only 5,000 of the 45,000 men on Abbas' payroll actually put up the pretense of a fight. And for the most part, top Fatah commanders deserted their men, either fleeing on foot to Egypt or aboard...
...familiar images - pillars of smoke, innocents fleeing the fighting, tough young men toting huge guns - popped up on TV screens and newspapers around the world, so the sense that fate decrees nothing but tears for Lebanon took root once again. Not even one year after a vicious war between Israel and the militants of Hizballah, which devastated whole regions of the south and Shi'ite neighborhoods of Beirut, Lebanon seemed once more to be at the mercy of the gun. The government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora believes that the sudden surge of violence is linked to moves by members...
...looting. This was not unrest as usual in Pakistan. The carnage, which occurred when supporters of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry clashed with members of a political party allied to the President, General Pervez Musharraf, has placed new pressure on Pakistan's leader to find a way out of the vicious cycle of violence in which the nation finds itself...
...staying away from politics is hard in Serbia, as Serifovic must be aware. In the weeks prior to the Eurovision contest, the ascending pop singer was subjected to vicious attacks by Serbia's virulently nationalistic tabloids, some of which focused on her gypsy ethnicity. Others derided her looks, declaring that she was "too ugly to represent Serbia," or purported to expose her as a lesbian. In interviews, Serifovic has persistently declined to discuss her private life and her sexual orientation...