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Mexicans fear turf war after drug kingpin’s death (Reuters)

November 9th, 2010

Mexican federal police present two suspected members of the Los Zetas drug cartel and weapons confiscated during their capture at a news conference at the federal police center in Mexico City October 22, 2010. REUTERS/Mexican Federal Police/HandoutReuters - For Mexicans living in the battleground between two of the country’s biggest drug gangs, the threat of even worse violence is rising as the Zetas try to grab…

Fear of looming hurricane grips Haitian quake camps (Reuters)

November 2nd, 2010

Earthquake victims buy groceries at an improvised store in Camp Corail about 12 miles (19 km) north of Port-au-Prince November 1, 2010. REUTERS/Eduardo MunozReuters - How do you prepare a tent to stand up to a hurricane?


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Rescuers fear worst for 11 trapped Chinese miners (AP)

October 17th, 2010

**CORRECTS CAPTION TO REMOVE REFERENCE TO NUMBER OF MINERS TRAPPED AND KILLED** Rescuers walk out of an entrance of Pingyu Mine after an explosion in Yuzhou, in central China's Henan province, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010. Rescuers battled dangerous levels of gas, tons of coal dust and the risk of falling rocks as they worked to free miners after the explosion at the mine in central China early Saturday.  (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - Frantically working rescuers feared the 11 Chinese miners trapped by a deadly gas blast may have suffocated or been buried by coal dust, as loved ones kept a…

Pope to Sicilians fighting Mafia: do not fear (AP)

October 3rd, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI greets faithful prior to an open-air mass at Palermo, on the island of Sicily, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI paid tribute Sunday to a Palermo priest slain by the Mafia and encouraged Sicilians not to resign themselves to deep-rooted evil on an island where organized crime has held sway for centuries.  (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Pope Benedict XVI paid tribute Sunday to a priest slain by the Mafia and encouraged people in Sicily not to resign themselves to deep-rooted evil on an island…

Afghan vote runs up against fear, disenchantment (AP)

August 24th, 2010

In this Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 photo, Afghan women walk past election posters in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghans will go to the polls for parliamentary elections in September. Afghans will go to the polls for parliamentary elections in September. After a fraud-ridden presidential election last year that nearly undermined President Hamid Karzai's legitimacy and binternational/b support, the Sept. 18 parliamentary ballot is being watched closely as a test of whether the Afghan government is serious about reform. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)AP - A shopkeeper in Kandahar city says what others are thinking: Casting a ballot in next month’s Afghan parliamentary election isn’t worth the risk.


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Nigeria: Middle class in fear as kidnappings rise (AP)

July 6th, 2010

FILE - In this Aug  2, 2009 file photo, Nigerian police stand guard outside a  church in  Maiduguri, Nigeria. Kidnappers who once targeted foreign oil workers are now abducting children for whatever ransom they can get. Those who can afford it hire police officers from elite and lethal units like the Mobile Police, or 'kill-and-go' as Nigerians refer to them. A report released in May 2010 by the Soros Foundation's Open Society Justice Initiative suggested about a fourth of the nation's officers are hired out as private security guards. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, file)AP - Masked armed men guard Nigeria’s elite in this volatile oil-rich region, but the country’s middle class can only lock their doors and pray each time their children leave…

Rwanda’s Hutus live in fear of attacks, repression (AP)

June 29th, 2010

In this Thursday, June 24, 2010 picture Rwandan President Paul Kagame greet supporters who waited hours to see him as he applied to run for president again in the Rwandan capital, Kigali. Last fall former President Bill Clinton presented Rwanda's leader with a global citizen award and lauded him for freeing the minds of his people. Now as election day approaches, critics fear Paul Kagame's government is instead smashing dissent.(AP Photo/Adam Hooper)AP - The Rwandan refugee was walking home one night when four men jumped him and put him in a stranglehold. He lay still, pretending to be dead as one…

Ethnic Uzbeks in squalid camps fear returning home (AP)

June 18th, 2010

Ethnic Uzbek women and children sit in a tent near Uzbek-Kyrgyz border in outskirts southern city of Osh, Friday, June 18, 2010. The United Nations said as many as 1 million people may need aid in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, including the potential number of refugees, internally displaced, host families and others that may suffer in one way or another from the unrest. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Ethnic Uzbeks sheltering in squalid tent camps say they don’t have enough food or clean water but are terrified of going back to live alongside those they hold…

Grisly Afghan attack claims 40 lives, raises fear (AP)

June 10th, 2010

An Afghan walks in front of a house damaged in a blast during a wedding in Kandahar's Argandab district Thursday, June 10, 2010. Scores were killed when a blast ripped through a wedding party in Kandahar province's Argandab district late Wednesday, killing 40 people and wounding dozens more, officials said. Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman said the explosion was a suicide attack. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - Body parts in trees. Mud walls flattened. Corpses riddled with ball bearings.


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South Africa’s Women Tribal Chiefs Often Rule in Fear (Time.com)

June 7th, 2010

Time.com - In South Africa, a small but growing number of women are following their fathers as leaders of village tribes. But as tensions grow between democracy and tribal tradition,…