Word: war-torn
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More than three decades have passed since Kouchner first railed to the world about the human costs of conflict in Africa. In 1971, while working as a young relief doctor in war-torn Biafra, he co-founded Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders, which would go on to win the Nobel Peace Prize. At the age of 67, Kouchner is still railing, but with a big difference: he is now the Foreign Minister of France, a post from which he could recast the country's approach to international relations, not least by potentially reviving...
...witnessed 27 coups and revolutions, survived four death sentences, contracted tuberculosis, cerebral malaria and blood poisoning, and was once doused with benzene and nearly set ablaze. "I was driving along a road from where they say no white man can come back alive," he wrote of that incident, in war-torn Nigeria. "I was driving to see if a white man could, because I had to experience everything for myself...
...differentiate between helping the sick or impoverished and helping those in war-torn countries? How do you decide who to help? -Adam Burnham, Austin, TX I think any help is helpful. I don't think you have to beat yourself up too much about 'who do I help?' and 'where do I start?". I think the desire to help and start is a wonderful thing...
Spain in the war-torn '40s is the setting for this anti-Franco, pro-magic fairy tale. If you were wondering what all the critical rapture and Oscar nominations were about, make your move now. Guillermo del Toro's fable is definitely not for kids, but it is a fable--about a child (Irana Baquero, above) who escapes from real nightmares into an eerie, fulfilling wonderland--that is as potent and scary as the great early Disney cartoon features. Except there is no happy ending...
...arrest of 172 Islamist militants by Saudi security forces represents another blow to al-Qaeda, but it also sheds light on the group's determination to use its base inside war-torn Iraq to spread its jihadist campaign to Saudi Arabia and the wider Arab world...