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...determined are the peacemakers toiling to end Sri Lanka's 19-year civil war? On the eve of last week's peace talks in Oslo, the mother of a key mediator, Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Vidar Helgesen, died of cancer. Helgesen received a message from his father excusing him from the funeral. Don't worry about saying goodbye, he told his 34-year-old son. Stay there. Finish...
...sold to the people back home. An insider at the talks said Prabhakaran warned his negotiators by telephone: "We told (Tiger rebels) to fight and die for a separate state. Now we are asking them to be chums with their enemies again." Observers, however, hope the thaw in Oslo will continue. "There was no heat," says the insider. "Only warmth...
Four posters in the Science Center about Zionism, the Oslo Peace Accords and recent violence in Israel were vandalized by unknown offenders over the weekend...
...also made me ask why more Muslim women here are not doing the same." - By ABI DARUVALLA/The Hague THE CONVERT Anne Sofie Roald, 48, Sweden Most angry young students join marches or sign petitions. Anne Sofie Roald took the veil. When she discovered Islam at the University of Oslo in the early '80s, the faith seemed to offer all that she sought - fellowship, moral grounding, even ideological compatibility. "I was thinking about how the First World was exploiting the Third World," she says. As she read the works of such anti-Western thinkers as Sayyid Qutb, "I saw my ideas...
Pipes, speaking to an audience of more than 50, said that until Palestinians and Arab neighbors fully accept Israel’s right to exist, Israel must return to the strategy of deterrence it followed before the 1993 Oslo peace accords...