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...independent Muslim Mindanao. In the 1970s and '80s, at least 100,000 people were killed in that insurgency through much of the south. In 1996, M.N.L.F. leader Nur Misuari signed a peace deal with the government: Misuari became governor of most of the south and the group disarmed. (A splinter group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (M.I.L.F.) continued fighting for a separate state, although it is currently engaged in peace talks with the government that are held in Malaysia...
...believed responsible for the drive-by shooting late Saturday that killed a 21-year-old rival and wounded his 13-year-old nephew, bringing the total murders in the last three months to 47, including 14 in January alone. The faida, or blood feud, began when a Mob splinter group rebelled against alleged demands from Di Lauro for a bigger cut of the profit. The women who accosted police on Jan. 21 were likely among those who live off the money from drug trafficking, which is worth up to €500,000 a day. Vittorio Pisani, head of the city...
What Pontier saw was a piece of a primatological puzzle, another splinter of anecdotal evidence for a mysterious ape with characteristics of gorillas and chimpanzees, an animal that has scientists in a furious debate over what it might...
...RELEASED. United Nations workers ANGELITO NAYAN, 34, of the Philippines, ANNETTE FLANIGAN, 43, of Northern Ireland, and SHQIPE HEBIBI, 36, of Kosovo; after being kidnapped by Habib Noorzad, a splinter faction of the Taliban; in Kabul. The three had helped organize Afghanistan's landmark Oct. 9 election and were abducted at gunpoint on Oct. 28. The captors said the government had agreed to release 24 Taliban prisoners in exchange for the hostages, a claim that was denied by Afghan Interior Minister Ahmed Ali Jalali...
...turnaround - lifted a ban on 13 British journalists. The England cricketers had delayed traveling to the country because of the ban. No Bargaining AFGHANISTAN Officials denied the government had made a deal to secure the release of three U.N. workers freed after nearly four weeks in captivity. A Taliban splinter group that held the trio hostage said it let them go in return for a government promise to release 24 Taliban from jail. Closing In INDONESIA Police arrested four suspects in the Sept. 9 bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta, which killed at least 10 people. Officials...