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Roh Moo Hyun, former President of South Korea, spent his life thumbing his nose at the country's political establishment. As a human-rights lawyer in the 1980s, he defended student protesters who fought the then dictatorial regime. In 2002, Roh--who never attended college--stunned South Korea's ?...
The act that brought Hizballah worldwide infamy came the following year: the 1983 suicide bombing of a U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 241 American servicemen - the largest single-day death toll for the Marine Corps since Iwo Jima. The eventual U.S. pullout from Beirut in 1984 was seen...
Hizballah's success has won it support from many sides: its reputation as the most successful anti-Israeli military group in the Middle East has won support from Arab nationalists and the backing of Iran and Syria. Meanwhile, many Lebanese Shi'as revere Hizballah for its social and educational-development...
Media buzz before the showdown in Pyongyang centered around Afshin Ghotbi, the Iranian-American who was named coach of the team ahead of the game in a bid - supposedly encouraged by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - to revitalize Iran's flagging footballing fortunes. Many in Iran thought Ghotbi ought to have been...
Moments after Saturday's attack in Islamabad, Interior Minister Rehman Malik condemned the suicide bombing as "a cowardly attack" mounted after "the defeat" of the Taliban in Swat. While the army has claimed a flurry of successes, including clearing the main town of Mingora and killing more than 1,300...