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...sparked by Washington's concern that it needs better results from Islamabad at a time when a resurgent Taliban is using Pakistan as a base for strikes against U.S. and government forces in Afghanistan, threatening the stability of the U.S.-backed government in Kabul. Says Norbert Van Heyst, the outgoing commander of the NATO peacekeeping force in Kabul: "It is well known that beyond the border, the remnants of the Taliban and al-Qaeda have the chance to reorganize," including establishing training camps...
...runway at the Calvin Klein show during Fashion Week in New York City, an uncomfortable silence settled over the journalists, buyers and society figures assembled in a Chelsea photography studio. Standing in view of the crowd was Klein himself, surrounded by several p.r. handlers and the CEO of Phillips--Van Heusen, the giant shirt company that acquired Klein's label for $438 million earlier this year. Here was an icon of American fashion, the man who gave the world designer denim in the '70s and put underwear over the top in the '80s, a mere spectator at the debut...
DIED. YETUNDE PRICE, 31, eldest sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams, to whom she was a part-time personal assistant; after being shot as she sat in a van with her companion, Rolland Wormley, 28, outside a suspected drug house about a mile from the tennis courts where Venus and Serena rose to fame; in gang-plagued Compton, Calif. The motive for the shooting was unclear, but police arrested and charged an alleged gang associate, Aaron Michael Hammer, 24, with Price's murder...
...long been haunted by Sobhraj's escape. He later learned that the fugitive?sometimes referred to as the "Serpent"?was suspected of preying on Western backpackers following the hippie trail through Asia in the 1970s. By feigning illness, assuming new identities and even once setting his prison van on fire, Sobhraj escaped jail or evaded arrest in Afghanistan, Thailand, Hong Kong, France, Greece (twice), Turkey and Iran. In addition to the case of the two murdered backpackers in Kathmandu, Sobhraj is also suspected of killing five tourists in Thailand and one in Pakistan. He was acquitted of two murders...
Dutch M.E.P. ELLY VAN GORSEL, on the debate prior to the European Parliament's decision to limit software patent legislation similar to that...