In the 1970's, the Palestinian attack on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics and attacks by groups like the Red Brigades galvanized world attention at the cost of dozens of lives.

in 1998, the city reclaimed the award of the city center of the year in Sweden.

Nationalist polled only 31.9 of the votes cast with parties supporting the union polling 59.6 .

Syria remains mired in a bloody civil war that has already caused more than 100,000 deaths.

Indeed, since September 2001, the war on terror has claimed more innocent victims than those terrorist attacks.

A million people lost their lives in the savagery of the subcontinent s partition into India and Pakistan, and 13 million more were displaced, most forcibly.

Our small diplomatic negotiating team was trying to end a war that had taken the lives of nearly 300,000 people.

Such were the justifications for a war that was to claim the lives of almost 5,000 US soldiers and more than 100,000 Iraqis.

TAK's attacks on Ankara, which occurred just three weeks apart, claimed the lives of 65 people.

In 2003 Kazakhstan harvested 17.6 million tons of grain in gross, 2.8 higher compared to 2002.

Indeed, the decades following it have been rife with bloody conflicts in which entire population groups have been murdered.

The ensuing ethnic clashes claimed the lives of more than 1,200 people, and displaced another 250,000.

The Algerian military coup eventually ushered in a bloody civil war that is estimated to have taken more than 200,000 lives.

Out of 22 Caribbean islands tracked, Dominica had the fewest visitors in 2008 (55,800 or 0.3 of the total).

Of the 200 people aboard, the disaster claimed the lives of 168 people in total, while only 32 survived.

As for Lubanga, he is one of many in the Congo who has used civilians as pawns in a war that has cost more than five million lives in the past decade.

Meanwhile, Pakistan is struggling with unprecedented flooding that has killed more than a thousand people and affected millions more.

At the end of a global war that claimed more than 50 million lives, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the world s two major powers.

When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

In the run up to Kenya s first multi party election in 1992, ethnic clashes caused hundreds of deaths, and displaced an estimated 300,000 people.

As part of the Soviet Union, Armenia was very successful, winning plenty of medals and helping the USSR win the medal standings at the Olympics on numerous occasions.

This summer, northern India experienced one of its heaviest monsoon seasons in 80 years, leaving more than 800 people dead and forcing another 100,000 from their homes.

Death cases due to the current heatwave killed 12 people so far in Brakna region alone. Five towns in that province are protesting because of thirst while 25 other villages are unable to do so because of the thirst and heat precisely.

The situation is even worse in Syria, where the bloodiest of the Arab revolutions has already claimed more than 75,000 lives, owing mainly to the behavior of President Bashar al Assad s tyrannical regime.

Biafra s attempted secession in 1967, and the subsequent civil war in which millions died, was triggered by rigged elections, massive official corruption, and the cynical use of ethnicity to achieve political ends.

The magnitude of the two attacks was, of course, very different thousands were killed and major national landmarks destroyed in 2001, whereas the Boston bombing killed three people and injured roughly 260.

I pointed out the possibility of a Middle East conflagration equivalent to the Thirty Years War in Europe, which is estimated to have killed between half and three quarters of the population of some of the participating states.

Just four years ago, we were enmeshed in a brutal 14 year civil war that claimed 270,000 lives, destroyed the fabric of our communities, and reduced average income by over 80 . Liberia was Africa s basket case.

Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has a good record of questioning the wisdom of the intifada that has taken too many lives and caused only misery and destruction on all sides of this enduring conflict.

Indian engineers, braving attacks that claimed several lives, built a 130 mile (218 kilometer) highway from Zaranj to Delaram in southwest Afghanistan, opening up a trade route to the Iranian border.

Much of the public is disenchanted by the instability caused by fractious and corrupt parliamentary leaders and by the Maoist insurgency, which has cost 12,000 lives in nine years.

But ill equipped and poorly led UN replacement forces for the American presence put the remaining US troops in the bull s eye as they attempted to bring to justice the Somali warlord responsible for the death of Pakistani peacekeepers. The ensuing bloodbath of US soldiers generated images that the American public could not stomach, prompting the exit of American and then UN forces.

But, while more than 200,000 people perished in the tsunami disaster, an equivalent number of children die each month of malaria in Africa, a disaster I call a silent tsunami.

Although people took the streets on January 18, 2015, to protest the siege imposed by the Assad regime since July 2013, the crisis has left at least 200 people dead from starvation.

When protests against President Bashar al Assad s authoritarian regime first broke out in 2011, few could have imagined the catastrophe that Syria would suffer. The war has claimed more than 200,000 lives and devastated Syria s social and economic fabric.

In the process, four Wall Street banks that enabled Detroit to issue a total of 3.7 billion in bonds since 2005 have reaped 474 million in underwriting fees, insurance premiums, and swaps.

Today, in an arc that stretches from the Far East through the Middle East to the streets of cities in Europe and the United States, we face a scourge that has taken innocent lives, scarred communities, and destabilized countries. It is a threat that is constantly evolving, growing, and mutating to counter our fight against it.

The song and video Speaking Spanish is Hard has received close to 1.5 million views in six days the response was so great, although unexpected, that brothers and musicians Juan Andres and Nicolás Ospina had to come up with a new website in response to interest and requests of other songs and lyrics.

The dream of painting an entire favela in Rio de Janeiro is closer to become real now that the crowdfunding campaign launched by two Dutch artists in September has come to an end with over 100,000 US dollars raised for paint and painters.

As a result of armed conflicts in the past decade, 2 million children were dead and 6 million maimed. Armed conflict affected the lives of many more It deprived them of parents, basic social services, health care and education.

Nationalist polled only 31.9 of the votes cast with parties supporting the union polling 59.6 . Proof positive that proportional representation can produce strange outcomes.

however remaining deeply concerned, despite progress made, over deforestation and forest degradation in many regions, as well as the trade in illegally harvested wood and non wood forest products, including wildlife,

STRASBOURG In the 1990 s, the world averted its eyes to genocide in Rwanda, and to the Great Lakes War in eastern Congo, which claimed upward of five million lives the most in any war since World War II.

In both Algeria and Egypt, secular forces were incapable of stemming political Islam s rise, which could be cut short only by a military takeover. The Algerian military coup eventually ushered in a bloody civil war that is estimated to have taken more than 200,000 lives.