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'It is misery': A video of Haiti's camps after Sandy Oct 29th 2012, 22:48 Almost three years after an earthquake devastated Haiti, 370,000 people are still living in the tent camps that became their homes. Now, some have lost even that. Haitian officials say that 18,000 families living in tent camps have been rendered homeless by Hurricane Sandy, which has killed 52 there since making landfall last week. Read full article >> For Mitt Romney, a bigger military, but at what price? Oct 29th 2012, 21:35 The Pentagon is preparing the fiscal 2014 budget, but the November elections and Congress's lame- duck session could change it all. The gap between President Obama's strategy for the U.S. military over the next 10 years and Mitt Romney's defense proposals couldn't be greater. Read full article >> Ningbo protest, response both typical of China's environmental debate Oct 29th 2012, 20:34 NINGBO, China — Environmental protesters in the city of Ningbo, scene of violent weekend demonstrations, went back to work on Monday after the local government made a carefully calculated concession designed to defuse unrest over plans to expand a petrochemical complex. Read full article >> The scary global implications of Japan's slowdown Oct 29th 2012, 18:54 The Washington Post's Chico Harlan had an excellent story this weekend on the declining confidence in Japan's economy, the third-largest in the world after the United States and China. "The mass turnabout has helped launch an alternative — and increasingly accepted — school of thought about Japan: The country is not just in a prolonged slump but also in an inescapable decline," Harlan writes, marshaling lots of disturbing data and analysis on the country's shrinking population and ambitions, as well as its ballooning debt and corporate losses. Read full article >> Ukraine elections and the Russia model Oct 29th 2012, 18:44 MOSCOW—Election results reported Monday in Ukraine's parliamentary election point to an effort by the ruling Party of Regions and President Viktor Yanukovych to follow the same path of government-by-strongman as neighbors Russia and Belarus. Read full article >> Saudi Arabia faces an existential dilemma as religious tourism flatlines Oct 29th 2012, 17:34 This week concludes the Hajj, the annual rite of pilgrimage to the Saudi Arabian holy city of Mecca, where the Prophet Mohammed first spread the faith that has since become known as Islam. The Hajj represents, among many other things, Saudi Arabia's unique place of prominence in the vast Islamic world, as well as an economic opportunity for the oil-dependent Saudi economy. Religious tourism, to which the Hajj is central, is a key component of the country's long-term economic strategy. The kingdom is planning for the day that the natural resource that's made it so rich dies out. Read full article >> In Pakistan's Taliban territory, education is a casualty of conflict Oct 29th 2012, 16:42 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — At Oxford Public Middle School, an enthusiastic group of students recite their lesson for the day, which involves learning how to count. Only here there are no desks, no chairs and even the teacher's chair doesn't have a cushion. Oxford Middle School is in North Waziristan, in the heart of Taliban country, and these fidgety youngsters — wearing baseball caps that sport their school logo — are learning to count in Urdu and Pashto. Read full article >> 4 Japanese lessons for withstanding big storms Oct 29th 2012, 16:07 Few countries know bad weather like Japan, where typhoons hit regularly and winds can reach up to 94 mph, as they did earlier this year. And judging by some of the engineering and planning in the coastal mega-city of Tokyo, few countries are better prepared. As Hurricane Sandy makes landfall on the U.S. East Coast, here are some Japanese lessons for what is this week an American problem. Read full article >> Russians gather against totalitarianism Oct 29th 2012, 14:41 MOSCOW — The muddy slush numbed the feet. Voices trembled, not because of the freezing cold but because of the weight of their words. Russians gathered Monday in the shadow of the building where Stalin's secret police drew up their death lists, and they spoke the names of the murdered. Read full article >> As Hurricane Sandy devastates Cuba, bloggers rise to the challenge Oct 29th 2012, 14:31 Cuban bloggers are showing surprising initiative in responding to Hurricane Sandy, which has killed 11 and caused significant damage since making landfall there on Thursday. It's still not clear how costly the storm will be for Cuba, but 2005′s Hurricane Dennis caused $2.4 billion in damage, about 6 percent of GDP. This week's hurricane crisis is allowing bloggers to assert their value in a country that does not always welcome them. Read full article >>

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