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...In a speech in May, which mentioned Yunus by name, Sheikh Hasina said he should be “plunged into the Padma river twice”....
...Over the past years several indigenous peoples from Ecuador to New Zealand have won court cases protecting their lands on the basis of the sacredness of their mountains, forests and rivers....
...Libya has since been torn apart by civil war and tribal rivalries....
...Prince Hamzah crossed the Hashemite court’s red lines by actively courting disgruntled tribal leaders, presenting himself as the tribune of ordinary Jordanians....
...“These funds are used to pay for things like health insurance, contractual commitments for ongoing infrastructure projects, tribal courts, law enforcement and drug enforcement, a child safety centre and...
...About 4,000 still work in the Powder River Basin’s shrinking mining sector. “The jobs aren’t one for one, they don’t pay the same,” Governor Gordon told me....
...West of Cheyenne, a thicket of turbines has sprouted on the high plains....
...That, and a court jostle between factions that included Hamzah, won Abdullah the throne....
...Pump-jacks producing oil and gas dot the horizon across the Powder River Basin. Wind farms stand atop ridges west of Cheyenne, the state capital....
...The court recently found that the US Army Corps of Engineers should not have awarded an easement for the pipeline to run beneath Lake Oahe, a dammed section of the Missouri River just a half mile from the...
...I wrote him a bouquet of love letters on tribal stationery, doused in the eau de toilette. The letterhead featured a picture of Chief Dull Knife — great chief of the Northern Cheyenne people....
...The pipeline’s route, which passes the camp about half a mile away, is intended to run under Lake Oahe on the Missouri river, raising fears about possible spills into the water used by the Standing Rock...
...Meanwhile, the Standing Rock Sioux have pledged to keep fighting Dakota Access in court....
...Tribal rights under agreements with the US government, including the Fort Laramie treaty with the Sioux nation of 1868, have been crucial in persuading the Obama administration to delay construction of the...
...At that point, the route passes within about half a mile of the border of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation....
...For much of its 2,271 miles it passes through the Great Plains, where the Sioux, Cheyenne and other First Nations peoples stood their ground and lost against the US Army in the 19th century....
...A boat trip up the river the next morning reveals plenty of stunning rainforest to attract the adventurous tourist....
...After a time we came to a desert wadi, where pools of seasonal water lingered in the river bed....
...Fogg almost immediately sold a unique carved fruitwood prayer mill made for Henry VIII or a member of his court....
...Burton proposed not to follow the world’s longest river upstream to its source but to strike inland from the east coast of Africa to the lakes, where he believed the river began....
...The emir of Kuwait, a strong supporter of the rebel cause with tribal ties to eastern Syria, announced that he would visit Tehran....
...The tribe’s supreme court justice case may decide to impeach the council members and the judge can refer the case to a federal court....
...He is equally critical of Mr Karzai’s confused attempts to court the Taliban by calling them his “brothers” while repeatedly attacking the Afghan government’s crucial foreign allies in an effort to portray...
...“Society is becoming tribal and sectarian, and we don’t want this to become enshrined....
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