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Armed mainly with machetes and kitchen knives, 106 attackers perished that day, 32 of them inside Pattani’s historic Krue-Ze mosque, where they had taken refuge.
Many Nazis found refuge in the Middle East after World War II, and some even converted to Islam.
The opening of Hungary's borders that autumn and the seeking of refuge by East German citizens in the German embassies of Prague and Warsaw already had shaken communist and Stasi rule to its their foundations.
Obama is unlikely to find much refuge from domestic struggles in the last redoubt of previous lame-duck presidents: foreign policy.
When they do, they will have the skills to help rebuild their societies and economies, as well as provide strong ties to the country where they sought refuge.
Home is no refuge: the recent incursion into Jabalia was 200 meters from where Ayman lives.
But, lest we forget, Bethlehem also hosts three refugee camps, which is a reminder of the injustice visited upon Palestinians during the Nakba (catastrophe), when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, expelled from their homes in 1948, sought refuge here.
Should he be defeated, finding refuge abroad, as Tunisia’s former President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali did, will be difficult.
Individuals seeking refuge from a toxic and deadly environment could be welcomed not into camps, but rather proto-cities where the “global community,” represented by international institutions, NGOs, governments, and citizens, can encourage hope of a different, more secure life by nurturing positive seeds of knowledge, capital, and liberal self-government.
Tucker was working with a colleague to design a refuge that could save thousands of lives if – or rather, when – a tsunami like the one in 1797 that came out of the Indian Ocean, some 600 miles southeast of where the 2004 Asian tsunami originated, strikes again.
But Israel has every reason to be concerned, for a nuclear Iran would undermine the promise of Zionism to secure a Jewish refuge – the core rationale of Israel’s own strategy of “nuclear ambiguity” – and would embolden its enemies throughout the region.
Her trip opened with the always-tense annual US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, which was threatened at the start by the plight of the blind human-rights activist Chen Guangcheng, who had taken refuge in the United States’ embassy in Beijing.
If a few NGOs have achieved great results fighting the ills of Africa’s poor, the vast majority are perceived as either a “fifth column” of the West or a refuge for fringe members of the elite who use widespread poverty as another source of lucre.
Many Italians remember that Ben Ali – whose rise to the presidency was directly supported by Italy – provided refuge to Bettino Craxi, the former Italian prime minister (and Berlusconi’s political mentor), who fled the country in 1994 to avoid conviction on corruption charges.
Politicians, even in the world’s supposedly enlightened democracies, are refusing to provide refuge to desperate people fleeing brutal war; making little, if any, effort to address high and rising economic inequality; and are all but ignoring the factors driving civil-rights movements like America’s Black Lives Matter.
The same is true of a policy of regime change, as evidenced by the ruinous state of Syria today and the millions of people seeking refuge in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Western Europe.
When productive firms do not grow, the supply of good jobs cannot keep up with demand, forcing workers to take refuge in the informal economy, and the cycle continues.
Their allegiance is divided among the two competing governments, al-Qaeda, and the Islamic State (ISIS), which views the country as a province of its dwindling caliphate and an important refuge for members escaping the war in Syria and Iraq.
Indeed, it is now starkly apparent that much of Al-Qaida and its top leadership prefer refuge in Pakistan to any other place.
Such an India can build on the generosity that it has often shown – for example, with its unilateral assignment of MFN status to Pakistan – by offering a market for Pakistani traders and industrialists, a creative umbrella for its artists and singers, and a home away from home for those seeking refuge from the realities of Pakistani life.
The available evidence is that the many thousands of men, women, and children who have sought refuge in the Sinjar mountain range of northern Iraq are indeed at risk.
Perhaps that is why most opponents of Park 51 have sought refuge in the religious narrative of the terrorist attacks.
I found myself homeless and helpless, begging on the street and seeking refuge at an orphanage.
They seek refuge in dissimulation – social, political, intellectual, and religious.
This was the Tokyo where Sun Yat-sen, a founder and the first president of the Republic of China, took refuge.
The Vastly Exaggerated News about Nationalism’s DemisePARIS: "Patriotism," Samuel Johnson once wrote, "is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
With millions of Syrians seeking refuge abroad, the country will face a desperate shortfall of skilled, educated workers just when it needs them most.
Not only is offering them refuge the right thing to do; it is also good for our security.
In the 1990s, a genocidal conflict in the Balkans forced hundreds of thousands of the region’s residents to seek refuge in countries to the north.
Meanwhile, for more than a century, the US, in the words of the poet Emma Lazarus, has provided refuge to “huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
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