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Three hundred miles south of Baghdad, Basra has been transformed by its own surge, now seven weeks old.

President Hugo Chávez?s ex-wife, Marisabel Rodríguez, is a political figure here as well, making the custody dispute more fodder for the country?s polarized politics.

The parliamentary elections were viewed as a referendum on if Serbia would turn toward the West or revert to the nationalism and isolation of the Slobodan Milosevic years.

A durable accord in the densely populated neighborhood, where intense fighting has been going on for more than a month, has yet to be achieved.

To Ecuadoreans the American base in Manta, Ecuador, is a flash point in a regional debate over the limits of American power in Latin America.

A lull in violence in the Indian-administered province of Kashmir broke on Sunday as a gun battle between militants and Indian soldiers left seven dead.

The politics of food aid is not just confined to the dispute between Myanmar?s military junta and outside relief agencies, but extends to citizens who want to make donations.

Mrs. Walker took up flying in the 1930s and became celebrated as one of a group of women who delivered new fighters and bombers to combat squadrons in World War II.

In the past, Darfurian rebels have largely confined their attacks to government positions in Darfur, never once attempting an assault on the heavily fortified capital, Khartoum.

Young men and women in Saudi Arabia may chafe against the rules, even try to evade them, but they can be merciless in their condemnation of those who flout them too brazenly.