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...Even so, the humanitarians, contend, there are rules of war, and they want to investigate whether those rules may have been broken. Article 42 of the Geneva Convention states that "the use of weapons against prisoners of war, especially against those who are escaping or attempting to escape, shall constitute an extreme measure, which shall always be preceded by warnings appropriate to the circumstances." According to most accounts of the circumstances, many of the prisoners were trying to kill their captors. Human rights advocates responding to the events at Qalai Janghi also point to a 1977 protocol to the Geneva...
Departing from New York City, a Boeing MD-11 en route to Geneva crashes off Nova Scotia, killing 229. Canadian investigators haven't determined a specific cause of the crash, but they suspect that wiring problems may have started a fire...
Despite its fast-growing business, BGS was, until recently, a money-losing venture. "They're pushing a growth strategy," says Michael Anobile, president of the Localisation Industry Standard Association in Geneva. "But they have a management nightmare. The business requires a lot of specialists around the world, and you need a complex management structure to integrate them." Bowne CEO Robert Johnson acknowledges the challenge. "We underestimated the difficulty of getting the disparate companies we acquired to work together in a cooperative fashion," he says. "It took us three years of pain and significant losses." But, he says, that phase...
Musical highlights of the show included a chilling version of “Mezzanine” where tempo and guitar-strength changed instantaneously to give audience members goose bumps, and “Geneva,” in which Nathan appeared to be telling the story to the audience as if he were having a intimate conversation with a friend. A large part of what made the Rockwell Church-going experience so special is the passion that the band so obviously have about the music they’re making. The emotion Hubbard felt while writing the songs seems...
...harmed or tortured. Enemy casualties must be buried with dignity. All treaties must be respected, unless broken first by the other side. Wells cannot be poisoned—perhaps the world’s first prohibition of bioterrorism. These precepts may seem familiar from today’s Geneva Conventions—even if continuously violated in world of total warfare and “collateral damage.” But for the Muslim, these rules were not devised over time, but come directly from the teachings of the Prophet 14 centuries...