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...ARRESTED. SALMAN KHAN, 36, Bollywood film star known for his ripped physique and surly public persona; in connection with a hit-and-run SUV accident last month that killed a bakery worker sleeping on a sidewalk; in Bombay. Khan was originally charged with "rash and negligent driving" and released on $20 bail, but after a public outcry over his light treatment he was rearrested on the more serious charge of "culpable homicide...
...year Zia twice denied that there were any "Taliban" in her government, or even in Bangladesh. But a Bangladeshi government official tells TIME that while Zia's administration is aware of the fundamentalist threat inside the country, tackling it head-on might trigger a violent backlash. Foreign Minister Morshed Khan took the same line, telling TIME that it was better to have such groups inside the government, looking...
...orders from al-Qaeda. Abdullah Kandari described how his brother, just before he headed to Falaika Island to launch his attack, had become angry watching the 9pm news on Kuwait TV, which had broadcast footage of Palestinians killed by an Israeli missile strike in the Gaza refugee camp of Khan Yunis. According to Abdullah, Anas had jumped to his feet and cried, "God is generous, O Americans! We shall come and slaughter you like you have been slaughtering us!" Abdullah Kandari said that his brother blamed the U.S. more than Israel, and questioned how the U.S. could protect Kuwait while...
...point where it wouldn't interfere with a mobilization against Iraq. Instead, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict appears to be back on the boil. Arab TV screens have been filled this week with images of mayhem in Gaza following Monday's Israeli raid on Hamas supporters in the Khan Younis refugee camp that killed at least 13 Palestinians. That left Hamas threatening new suicide attacks, Israel threatening further incursions and the U.S. urging restraint. And new conflict threatens on a second front, as Lebanon prepares to start pumping drinking water on Wednesday from the Wazzani river, which flows into...
...Before the scene turned bloody, members of Karzai's office appeared and negotiations began. Khan was released and the Afghan troops lowered their weapons. What had flared in just seconds was over in minutes. Had violence erupted the consequences would have been catastrophic, ripping open divisions within the new government and unsettling allegiances with factions already feeling sidelined in the new order. The near miss also demonstrates just how delicate a balance the U.S. faces in Afghanistan between appearing as a force of safety for some and source of agitation to so many others...