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...rebel blockade achieved its immediate intent. Roads were jammed across the country, the capital ran short of diesel and gas, and the price of vegetables?most of which were left to rot in fields?soared to 30 times the normal level. Some 300 tourists nationwide were left stranded with little option but to leave Nepal on foot. They included 200 Indians, who trudged south over the border to safety. Elsewhere, Maoists stoned the vehicle of a French couple attempting to return to Kathmandu from western Nepal, and the Nepalese army had to escort nine British travelers driving back from Chitwan...
...surface, life in Kirkuk seems normal, but there is a general sense of unease, and the streets empty early, long before the 11 p.m. curfew. In January a demonstration by Arabs and Turkomans against the Kurds in Kirkuk was met with gunfire from the police, and four died. "It will get worse," says Jalil Ismael, 58, a Turkoman, over a game of backgammon in his antique store in the center of the city. "They want to make this a Kurdish city...
...Balkan province of Kosovo was progressing nicely. Since NATO bombing ended in 1999, a government with limited powers had been elected. Security was improving. Kosovo Serbs, a minority in the predominantly ethnic Albanian province, could leave their fortified enclaves to shop, work, go skiing. "Things are getting back to normal," a Kosovo Serb restaurateur told Time last month. "People are ready to forget the past and move on." Alas, civil war is not easily forgotten. In a rash of attacks that spread across the province last week like a bushfire, ethnic Albanian gangs rioted outside Serb enclaves, hurled stones...
...important delivery arrived last week, as state-appointed executor Enrico Bondi presented his bailout plan. He hopes to sell all noncore businesses and reduce Parmalat's brands from 120 to 30 (concentrating on fruit juices and, of course, milk). Prosecutors in Milan are expected to seek more trials, under normal timetables, against other suspects. T-Mobile's Berry Big Deal The BlackBerry, which allows secure wireless access to e-mail behind corporate firewalls, is the must-have gadget for the mogul on the move - at least in North America . Although Canada 's Research in Motion (RIM) has sold licenses...
...Bette Set weighs upwards of 113,000 pounds—no problem for the Pepsi rafters under normal conditions—but the snow added another 76,000 pounds to the roof. That would have resulted in an excessive payload. So no Bette...