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The results of the Global Peace Index for 2009 suggest that the world has become slightly less peaceful in the past year, which appears to reflect the intensification of violent conflict in some countries and the effects of both the rapidly rising food...
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The suspected mastermind of Monday’s massacre in the southern Philippines is the son of a powerful local politician who is also a key local supporter of the...
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Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won support for his country’s nuclear ambitions and expanded his reach in Latin America in a three-country goodwill tour that...
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The Italian prostitute at the centre of a sex scandal involving Silvio Berlusconi has explicitly claimed for the first time that she had sex with the Italian prime...
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Just before the France-Ireland football match in Paris, I met my charming, gentle, retired, 60-something, French neighbour on the stairs of our Paris apartment...
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The Islamist militant group behind the deadly attack in Mumbai one year ago remains a potent force determined to strike India and the West, and a source of acrimony...
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The world’s biggest animal sacrifice began in Nepal today with the killing of the first of more than 250,000 animals as part of a Hindu festival in the village of...
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Lincoln University students now have one more hurdle to pass before they graduate: losing weight. According to a recently instituted requirement, university students...
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Phillip Carter, the top detainee affairs policy appointee at the Pentagon, has quit his post after just seven months on the job, a Defense Department spokesman said...
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A crucifix over the blackboard. An image of the Virgin Mary presiding over a classroom full of students. These pervasive Catholic symbols, still present in some Spanish...
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After more than five months of going it alone, Iran’s opposition Green Movement is reaching out to the United States for help. Via public and private channels,...
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Because of years of environmental abuse, a number of species are rare in Cuba, but none more so than a foreign tourist willing to speak up in the face of political...
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”A bridge to build between India and Pakistan” by Ahmed Rashid on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 is an article informative and thought-provoking. In spite of so much...
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An alarming news post published in today’s newspapers tells of an intelligence report that warns against the possibility of terrorists poisoning Karachi’s drinking...
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Indian intelligence agencies launched a comprehensive media and psychological warfare against Pakistan prior to their Prime Minister Visit to USA. In this connection,...
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Pakistani News channels flung with the news of US-Taliban secret talks involving the well-known Algerian mediator Dr. Abdullah Anas.
The first round of talks has...
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For Muslims this week is one of the holiest, it is the week of the Hajj. Millions will descend to the most holiest site in Islam and perform the Hajj - one of the Five...
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Like many of Mr. Villa’s articles, the one he posted about the Gilo neighborhood has been seeded with misconceptions, half-truths and whole lies.
Gilo is not a...
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Being into Public Speaking has left major areas in my life where I have often thought twice before venturing.
With the 26/11 attacks at Mumbai approaching its rather,...
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The Babri Masjit demolition is the reason for BJP’s down fall? I think answer will come in “yes” from every one. Always BJP’s main agenda is...
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A year has gone by since the devastating 26/11 terror attacks, but the city is still vulnerable and people far from secure, says well-known author and columnist Shobhaa...
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Latest developments during last weeks related the EU’s policy of diversifying Europes’s energy supplies give a clear indication that EU’s pipedream Nabucco is...
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Demonstrations against President Mikhail Saakashvili continued fifth day on April 13th in Georgia. Consolidated opposition demands president’s resignation, early...
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Russia’s emergence as an economic and military superpower since the collapse of the Soviet Union has rattled many a feather in the western bloc, none more so than the...
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This post was first published in TH!NKABOUTIT site 25th February 2009.
During last twenty years war for humanitarian reasons has came quite popular in political...
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I am a bit worried about a trend at the beginning of year 2009 - a trend I hope will not dominate the rest of the year. The phenomena in my mind is the new tradition...
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Earlier I wrote about political rights, citizen liberties and press freedom in Balkans (”Freedom in Balkans”). To travel from one country to other is a...
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Recently I was searching some information about Transnistria - aka Pridnestrovie - and found a probably official web-portal of this not recognized state. Originally...
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The breakup of the former Soviet Union - which Vladamir Putin wants us to believe is a bigger tragedy than the Holocaust - resulted in the achievement of full...
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On 2nd Dec. 2008, the Foreign Ministers of NATO have decided during their “transatlantic dinner” that Ukraine and Georgia will not get the NATO Membership...
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When I sometimes in my blogs wrote about Transdnistria (officially Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic – PMR) the most common feedback has been following:
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I was watching Friday (7th November 2008) news from Georgia’s capital Tbilisi where some 10,000 demonstrators were marching against current political leadership...
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The war with Russia might have been brutal and brief for tiny Georgia yet the economic and political repercussions are enormous with the Georgian opposition blaming...
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The Caucasus remains to be tense as a powerful blast rocked the North Ossetian capital of Vladkavkaz killing at least eleven people and injuring several others. The ...
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Since Russia’s re-emergence as a super power primarily under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, the world has felt a little uncomfortable about prospective future...
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A Chechen woman cooks in a yard near near houses damaged by an earthquake in the village of Mayrtup, 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of the regional capital Grozny, Russia, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008. A strong earthquake hit Chechnya and other parts of...
