"Around the world, people are encountering similar problems: inadequate education and health systems, environmental threats, declining trust in political institutions, entrenched poverty, high crime rates and so forth," he writes.
Kenya's most prominent anti-corruption activist has warned that the country is "at a tipping point" as terrorist threats, declining revenues from tourism, and a lack of confidence in the government pile pressure on its leadership.
But when pressed to say whether it did pose such a threat, he declined to say.
Mr. Spaccarelli said he took this as a threat and declined to sign the letter.
Although this threat has declined significantly with the implementation of strict fur-export regulations, the species continues to be harvested by poachers.
Lower Saxony's interior minister, Boris Pistorius, said there had been indications of a security threat but declined to confirm or deny media reports that a tip-off came from a foreign intelligence agency.
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A PayPal spokeswoman, Amanda Pires, said Wednesday that the company had not received any threats, but declined to comment on the investigation.
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To get them, Mr. Soler, a freelance television journalist and French citizen who lives in the United States (because of a death threat, he declines to say where), spent six weeks in Baghdad and a month in Egypt and Jordan.
