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...Noida, an affluent suburb of New Delhi, beginning Dec. 29, residents of the nearby Nithari slum looked on in horror. But their revulsion quickly turned to grief and anger when it emerged that the dead-six boys and 11 girls and young women-hailed from Nithari and were victims of a serial killer. Residents of the slum had repeatedly warned the police that a murderer appeared to be operating in the area, and distraught parents say they had implored the authorities to help search for their missing children-only to be rebuffed. Vandana Sarkar, whose 20-year-old daughter Pinky...
...railroad station in the Angolan town of Dondo hasn't seen a train in years. Its windows are boarded up, its pale pink façade crumbling away; the local coffee trade that Portuguese colonialists founded long ago is a distant memory, victim of a civil war that lasted for 27 years. Dondo's fortunes, however, may be looking up. This month, work is scheduled to start on the local section of the line that links the town to the deep harbor at Luanda, Angola's capital. The work will be done by Chinese construction firms...
...Given Somalia's penchant for clan warfare and inhospitableness toward foreign armies--just go out and rent a copy of Black Hawk Down--it's tempting for Western policymakers to wash their hands and wish Gedi luck. But Somalia's strife has repercussions beyond its borders. The country is victim to the worst ravages of man and nature. Instability there has the potential to engulf the entire Horn of Africa in war, with neighboring countries Ethiopia and Eritrea jockeying for influence and pirates using the lawless coast as a base to launch attacks on the freighter traffic headed...
...HUPD) officer helped a team including two physicians from the HBS branch of Harvard University Health Services (UHS), a campus security officer, and Mt. Auburn Hospital emergency medical personnel. Andrew F. O’Brien, chief of operations at HBS, was the first on the scene according to the victim, who declined to be identified. He arrived 90 seconds after the professor fell down. Because no blood was being pumped out of the professor’s heart, he could die “in a matter of minutes,” O’Brien said. By coincidence...
...Still, if the police had kept better track of what was going on in the slum, the House of Horrors might never have existed. "What if the police investigated when Bina first went missing?" asks the uncle of victim Aladi Halder, who lived across the hall from Bina's family. "Maybe then all of our children would still be here, living with...