Then, instead of looking at the fundamentals of the securities themselves, they simply assumed that they could rely on the credit ratings the ratings agencies bestowed, even though those agencies' conflicts of interest were well-known.
But, Abu Ahmed recalled, the jailers had a very different impression of Baghdadi – they saw him as a conciliatory and calming influence in an environment short on certainty, and turned to him to help resolve conflicts among the inmates.
The prime minister underlined the government would not allow Australian "jihadists" fighting in overseas conflicts back into the country.
It has also unleashed a new scramble for oil, minerals and cropland that is accelerating deforestation and fuelling a new wave of land conflicts from Colombia to Chile.
There, the boundary between war and peace is blurred; "frozen conflicts" is a synonym for wars without end.
If Missouri or any other American state with similar conflicts – racial, religious, political, whatever – have any hope of healing, it lies with those who are serious and sturdy enough to ditch their petrified opinions, to embrace complexity and to absorb facts that make them uneasy.
The threat of violence from new and ongoing conflicts displaced 11 million people inside their own countries in 2014, bringing the total number of internally displaced people (IDPs) worldwide to 38 million, a report has said.
He said his experience of conflicts and meeting war correspondents "leads me to suggest, controversially, that it is just a little bit possible that they are not all entirely saintly at every minute of the day.
With hostilities in Ukraine rumbling on and the battle against Islamic State far from over, there is always the risk that one of the world's simmering conflicts will burst into life.
However, transparency groups said such roles risked creating the appearance of conflicts of interest, even if no such conflict actually existed.
Conflicts between al-Jazeera and the Egyptian authorities after the Brotherhood's overthrow in July forced the broadcaster to shut the offices of its Arabic and English divisions, and its employees to operate without accreditation – one of several charges laid against the journalists on Wednesday.
