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...Army logistics teams began assembling in the N.T. last week; extra police, including many seconded from other states, will follow, some into communities that currently have no full-time police presence. Rumors of their arrival have spread among Aboriginal people, many of them exhausted by a long string of failed policies. "Half the people here don't know what's going on," says one leader wearily. Dr. Peter Beaumont was working last week as a locum in Jabiru when soldiers turned up. They told locals they were "just looking around," he says. "Maybe they were, but people were nervous...
...supply is only likely to increase to meet a growing demand. "In the next few years, cocaine will spread into the whole E.U.," says Koli Kouame, head of the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board in Vienna, who is from the Ivory Coast. "It is simple: the youth in Warsaw want to be like the youth in London or Paris, so it will spread fast...
Meanwhile, as the cocaine trade with Europe booms, the cartels have also spread into other African countries. "It's not just Guinea-Bissau," says Antonio Mazzitelli, West African director of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. "It is also Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana and others" - countries, in other words, where the justice system has all but collapsed, where prisons are overcrowded, and where there are too few judges and courtrooms to provide efficient trials...
...biography, University of London professor Lucy Riall explores how the Italian's legend spread across the globe. Though there was no YouTube to carry his impassioned orations, Garibaldi did have the fortune to emerge during an information revolution. With the advent of new mass-printing technologies, accounts of his life story and lithographs of his handsome image - often in early photographic formats - were widely dispersed. The struggle for Italian unity also featured some of the first battles to be followed on a near daily basis in newspapers, thanks to the invention of the telegraph. As his fame grew...
...including the highly fortified Mansour Hotel in central Baghdad. Early reports put the combined death toll at 50, and climbing. But how are militant groups sneaking their bombs and bombers past the giant security dragnet around Baghdad? There are over 70,000 U.S. and Iraqi soldiers and Iraqi policemen spread across the city, conducting house-to-house searches and street patrols, walling off entire neighborhoods and setting up hundreds of checkpoints...