clashes

BBC: protests, clashes in Uganda at the Commonwealth meeting
Ind: although the rest of the country is enjoying a relative calm

BBC: three killed in protests against proposed constitutional changes in Bolivia

BBC: riots broke out in Paris suburbs again, this time only for six hours (after two teens were killed in a motorbike accident with police)

Ind: 10,000 ethnic Indians clash with police in Malaysia at rally in support of lawsuit for reparations from the British for those brought to Malaysia from India as indentured servants

CNN: diary of a Dutch girl who joined the FARC in Colombia: "This would be worth it if I knew I was fighting for something. But I don't really believe that anymore"

NYT magazine: a Moroccan neighborhood and boys who join jihadist movements

Gdn: Taliban controls 54% of Afghanistan, according to a report by thinktank the Senlis Council

WP: investigating another shooting in Iraq by State Dept contractors: "...the U.S. military has no authority over Unity because the company is not under a Defense Department contract."

IHT: if you're from Yemen, you're out of luck: nationality plays a role in who gets released from Guatanamo

NYT: Long Island immigrants arrested in gang sweep
"'Collateral arrests' of illegal immigrants who are not gang suspects are always appropriate to the agency’s mission, [INS officials] said...at several other houses on the detective’s list, Latino residents answered the door, and the agents gained entry. They searched the premises, demanded immigration papers, and arrested any man who could not produce the right documents. Women and children were left behind...For the first six to eight days, the Lopez cousins and Mr. Salazar were held incommunicado, without access to counsel, at the maximum-security Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where Muslim immigrants considered terror suspects were held after 9/11."

WSJ: in a different kind of clash, the Kansas-Missouri game features rivalries from the Civil War that live on - most evidently through the Kansas mascot, the Jayhawk, named for Kansan guerrillas from the 1850s. (Mizzou won, 36-28 - at least this time they were wearing pads.) also, perhaps the first rendering in the WSJ ever of a random guy from a bar whose claim to fame is that he's a Missouri fan (he was apparently interviewed because he was wearing a jersey bearing the name of a rebel guerrilla leader that pillaged Lawrence, Kansas in 1863 - William Quantrill). Missouri needs to win the Big 12 championship next week to get into the national championship game (where hopefully they'll face ohio state...)