In a Corrupt World Where the Violent Bear It Away
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The films of Richard Fleischer are those of an unself-conscious American realist.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's drug cartels are killing record numbers of people with unprecedented brutality. Federal security forces are bogged down in a violent political conflict in the southern city of Oaxaca. Years of sluggish economic growth cannot meet the needs of a country where over half the population lives in poverty.
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An escalation of ethnic violence is threatening to plunge the country into chaos.
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âSteel Cityâ tells the story of a man and his sons, who struggle with personal and financial demons in a drab Midwestern town.
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Gun-wielding tribesmen. Al Qaeda attacks. Kidnappings of Westerners. Yemen has long conjured up images of wild badlands, fit only for the intrepid traveler.
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'Blood Diamond' tries to mix African politics and action.
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all too often innocents â-ie daily. Reformers and warlords challenge Yasser Arafat as chaos and anarchy envelop the Palestinian Authority.
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In the shrinking world of 24-hour global  news, every kidnapping and atrocity can present a painful  ethical dilemma for the media -- does depicting these horrors  turn them into tools of the perpetrators?
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The west is stripping the developing world of its talent. The pressures of ageing populations and the need to be at the frontier of technological change has meant skilled labour is in short supply, so raiding
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One dedicated doctor keeps a nightly vigil in a violent section of the city. But how much longer will he and other physicians remain in an increasingly dangerous country?
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The anti-corruption watchdog group, Transparency International, has ranked Bangladesh and Haiti as the world&#39;s most corrupt countries in its annual report.
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In places like Congo and Kosovo, peacekeepers have been accused of abusing the people they're protecting.
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Even if the bloody feud between cartels stops, the police force is badly compromised and must be rebuilt
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Viewpoint: The murder of Alexender Litvinenko demonstrates, once again, how murder has become an accepted part of Russian power struggles. But the West can't &#8212; or won't &#8212;  do much about it
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Comment is free: Isabel Hilton: Increasing numbers are speaking up against local tyrannies and corruption, and no longer can the state silence them.
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According to the Red Cross, most of the killings have been in the turbulent Rift Valley, where gangs from opposing ethnic groups have fought fiercel.
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Some question whether it will be enough to quell the violence and worry about the impact of prolonged tours.