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 SAUDI ARABIA: Despite Social Restrictions, Jobs Keep Migrants Staying
authorPeyman Pejman
Saudi Arabia's 23 million include almost five million Indians, Indonesians, Sri Lankans, Filipinos and other Asians. They work in jobs from construction workers and engineers to domestic help. Some never imagined the tensions, challenges and dilemmas they would have to face.
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 POLITICS: Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme Blame Game Heats Up
authorThalif Deen
The U.N. Secretariat, accused of nepotism and corruption in overseeing Iraq's multi-billion-dollar, oil-for-food programme, is expected to name an independent commission this week to investigate the widespread charges of abuse.
 POLITICS: Activists Crusade Against E-Jihad
authorCam McGrath
For millions of Muslims, invitation to martyrdom is just a mouse click away. So-called ”jihad sites” are springing up all over the Internet to offer the latest news, images and slogans of Islamic holy war.

 IRAQ-U.S.: One, Two, Many Messes
authorAnalysis - By Jim Lobe
While the United States does not look quite yet like the ''pitiful, helpless giant'' that tortured Richard Nixon's imagination during the Vietnam War, the past week's events seem to have moved it very much in that direction.
 RELIGION-MEXICO: The Passion According to Iztapalapa
authorDiego Cevallos
Jesus Christ was beaten, bound and crucified Friday in the Iztapalapa district of the Mexican capital in a massive annual re-enactment of the "Via Crucis" that dates to the mid-19th century.

 POLITICS-JAPAN: Abductions Upset Tokyo's Focus on Its Role in Iraq
authorSuvendrini Kakuchi
Just as Japan has focused its foreign policy on its involvement in the reconstruction of Iraq, this week's abduction of three of its volunteers there has jarred a largely pacifist population -- and may well undercut Tokyo's attempt to play a bigger role in international affairs.
 RWANDA-US: Papers Imply Hutu Hard-Liners Downed President's Plane
authorJim Lobe
As France and Rwanda exchange charges over responsibility for the Rwandan genocide that was launched 10 years ago this week, newly declassified U.S. documents make clear U.S. officials believed that Hutu hard-liners were responsible for the shoot-down of the Rwandan president's plane, which triggered the massacres.
 SOUTH KOREA: April Vote a Tussle between Old and New Politics
authorSuvendrini Kakuchi
South Korea's hotly contested parliamentary elections this month poses a problem for Lee Jeong-ju, the owner of a large shop selling ladies' handbags in central Seoul and who describes himself as a die-hard democrat.
 U.S.: 9/11 Blunders Left Workers, Residents Literally in the Dust
authorKatherine Stapp
Even as the White House scrambles to defend its handling of the terrorist attacks of Sep. 11, 2001, the poisonous gas and dust unleashed by the disaster continue to settle in the lungs of thousands of recovery workers and New York City residents.
 WORLD HEALTH DAY: Death on the Road Is No Accident
authorGustavo Capdevila
Experts in road safety prefer to speak in terms of "crashes" instead of "accidents", because the latter gives the impression of a random event when traffic-related fatalities and injuries can be prevented.
 RWANDA: Could U.N. 'Special Adviser' Prevent Future Genocide?
authorThalif Deen
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who has admitted he could have done more to stop the genocide of about 800,000 Rwandans exactly 10 years ago, says he is determined to prevent a similar tragedy in the future.
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