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Speaking on Monday, President George W. Bush stated that “the United Nations should not wait any longer to approve a blue-helmeted force” for Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region as mandated by UN Resolution 1706. Sudan’s President Omar El Bashir responded by insisting that the situation in Darfur is under control. But even as he spoke, gun fights erupted between his army and Darfuri rebels in the posh streets of Omdurman, across the river from the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. With a third of Darfur?...
Correspondent Aparisim Ghosh's unflinching diary of his time in Baghdad opened readers' eyes. Scores found sobering contrast between their lives and those trying to cope in war-torn Iraq...
...million Number of children in the world deprived of a primary school education because of war and conflict, according to a new report 89% Percentage of primary-age children not in school in war-torn Somalia, the highest proportion in the world...
...While it is interesting to learn why Starbucks plays so much jazz (to give “romance to the coffee experience”) or why your local high school jerseys were displayed on Applebee’s walls (the kitschy flair makes mothers forget about terrorist attacks in war-torn states), these business principles seem less directed towards the lay reader and more at that slimy kid in your economics section. A major flaw in “Applebee’s America” is that while the authors try to discuss “the average American...
Having claimed victory in the war with Israel, Hizballah is already mobilizing to win the peace. Almost as soon as the cease-fire went into effect last Monday, Hizballah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah went on television to promise that the Party of God would give $10,000 to all those whose homes were damaged or destroyed and that Hizballah would rebuild or repair the homes itself. And Nasrallah's aides have dispatched a corps of engineers to survey war-torn areas. Its members show up wearing Hizballah yellow vests and matching baseball caps that say JIHAD OF CONSTRUCTION...