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The United Nations had viewed its 1999 intervention in East Timor as a success. That intervention allowed the installation of a democratically elected government in the tiny country. Recent violence has people questioning their assumptions about the intervention.
Despite promised reforms, textbooks in Saudi public schools continue to "reflect an ideology of hatred" against Christians, Jews and other Muslims, the head of a religious-freedom group says.
The World Food Program says it plans to resume food aid to North Korea. But under the new terms of operation worked out with the North Korean government, the U.N. agency no longer will be able to maintain offices outside of North Korea's capital, raising questions about its ability to monitor shipments.