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...medical care. Villagers are only free to come down from the trees during the daytime, when the elephant attacks cease. Officials say hundreds of other forest villages in the region are also regularly trampled by irate pachyderms. "When I visit [the villages], I feel like I'm visiting a war-torn place," says Shashi Bhushan, an activist for the People's Union for Civil Liberties. The elephants are agitated because the lack of food in their own natural habitats has forced them to stray into human villages; when the locals resist, the elephants get mad. Meanwhile, the Indian government seems...
...although al-Qaeda has infiltrated Chechnya, there's no evidence that it orchestrated the latest bombings. In fact, the growing chaos in the war-torn republic may have less to do with Osama bin Laden than with Putin. Political analysts in Russia and abroad say the country's leader may have exacerbated the conflict...
...taken photographs in war-torn and impoverished foreign countries including Afghanistan, Sudan, Iran Rwanda, Tibet and Siberia...
Helicopters on a maroon sky and images of war-torn My Lai haunted Boylston Hall last Saturday...
...billion in foreign aid will help rebuild Indonesia's war-torn Aceh province and Bali's battered tourist economy...