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Amid the ongoing financial regulation overhaul, the banking industry is hoping to pull off a quiet power grab that has eluded its grasp since the Great Depression, by stripping the independence of the board that sets financial accounting...
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Iraq’s Green Zone has been an Oasis for Western officials in the city since the advent of the war. Secured behind myriad checkpoints and high concrete walls, the...
made popular Nov 6 2009
It is not known who is responsible for such attacks, as no one is claiming responsibility for them; which doesn’t really make sense as terrorist organizations...
made popular Nov 5 2009
A new wave of attacks has been wavering around Iraqi cities these days. Massive bombings were reported during the last couple of weeks causing deaths, casualties and...
made popular Nov 5 2009
Violence in Iraq has been reduced, as Western generals and politicians are keen to point out, but it has not gone away. If anything, it has become more deeply...
made popular Nov 3 2009
Nearly half of all Iraqis who died in October perished in a single coordinated attack against government offices in Baghdad, a tally by The Associated Press showed...
made popular Nov 3 2009
A new poll conducted by the Pew Research Center revels an alarming belligerency in the American public. Apparently, several years of agonizing war in Iraq (and...
made popular Nov 3 2009
Iraqi politicians have been turning up their rhetoric over Kirkuk, the oil-rich city that both Kurds in the north and Arabs in the south want to control.
The dispute...
made popular Nov 2 2009
Iraq has called for more support from the international community to help it combat insurgent suicide bombings.
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Sunday’s...
made popular Oct 31 2009
Many people around the world have been cursed with cringe-inducing names (as this BBC story proves). Some, however, are more unfortunate than others.
On last...
made popular Oct 28 2009
132 Iraqis are dead, more than 500 are injured… Suicide bombers on Sunday caused this huge number of deaths and casualties.
Why and who would do something like this?...
made popular Oct 27 2009
Suicide bombers driving two large vehicle bombs again penetrated the heart of Baghdad today, killing 147 people and wounding more than 700, less than three months...
made popular Oct 26 2009
After fleeing their bloodied homeland, where violence and increasing conservatism confine their compatriots’ lives, some Iraqis in exile are taking the...
made popular Oct 22 2009
President Obama’s pledge to withdraw US troops from Iraq and end combat operations there by September 2010 is under threat because of increased levels of violence and...
made popular Oct 20 2009
Around 8 months after banning smoking in public places in Jordan, Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad issues a decree banning smoking in public places and public...
made popular Oct 19 2009
Iraq says 85,694 people have lost their lives in the country’s violence from 2004-2008, in the first official report by the government on the Iraqi death toll...
made popular Oct 14 2009
A car packed with explosives rammed into a concrete wall at the provincial police headquarters. It was followed by a motorcycle bomb that was detonated among the crowd...
made popular Oct 12 2009
A Sunni cleric known for denouncing insurgents in Iraq was killed Friday by a bomb that ripped apart his car, a police official said, in the second targeted attack on a...
made popular Oct 10 2009
Reporting from Baghdad and Ramadi, Iraq - A car bomb exploded Tuesday in a crowded residential area in the western Iraqi town of Amiriya, killing at least 11 people and...
made popular Oct 7 2009
By the third day of negotiating with his son’s kidnappers, Rasul Amoore had sold his car, withdrawn his bank savings and borrowed money from his siblings and friends...
made popular Oct 7 2009
A suicide bomber killed at least six mourners at funeral for a member of a prominent tribe with ties to both security forces and insurgents in western Iraq on Monday, a...
made popular Oct 6 2009
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Yemen’s civil war spilled into neighbouring Saudi Arabia for the first time yesterday when Shia gunmen shot dead a Saudi security officer in a cross-border...
made popular Nov 5 2009
The concerns have been triggered by Bosnian Serb leaders who have stepped up their demands for independence with a warning the country is no longer...
made popular Oct 19 2009
Persistent violence and a prolonged drought have plunged Somalia into its worst humanitarian crisis since civil war erupted two decades ago, with a third of its 10...
made popular Aug 26 2009
With the declaration of partial results of Presidential elections placing Hamid Karzai at the top while very closely followed by his main opponent the former foreign...
made popular Aug 26 2009
The Leonardo DiCaprio film “Blood Diamonds” informed a whole generation of moviegoers how illicit trading in diamonds fuels oppression of native people in...
made popular Jun 26 2009
Reports from southern Yemen say at least three people were killed when police broke up an unauthorised demonstration in Aden.
Others were injured, and dozens of...
made popular May 22 2009
A few months ago when Secretary Gates and the Department of Defense listed Mexico as one of the countries in the future that face destabilization. At the time the...
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The international community now seems resigned to Somalia’s status as the world’s most failed state yet - almost unimaginably - the country is perilously close to a...
made popular Dec 19 2008
Few stories I read in the press install in me fear, but this in the New York Times did.
Fears of New Ethnic Conflict in Bosnia
Civil war broke out in Bosnia when...
made popular Dec 16 2008
It was 25 years ago this week that a minor insurgency in Sri Lanka began to turn into a full-scale civil war.
Sri Lankan soldier
The army is advancing in the north
An...
made popular Jul 24 2008
More and more people are conversing through facebook. But if you really think about it, it’s a pretty weird way to communicate. So, our intern Scott decided he’d...
made popular Jul 12 2008
Last night, at around 10.30 pm, the citizens of Tripoli, the second biggest city in Lebanon, started hearing gunshots, automatic weapons fire, and even rocket-propelled...
made popular Jul 9 2008
Robert Mugabe has been threatening Civil War if he loses the looming Zimbabwe run-off election. What he means is that he is just itching for an excuse to kill everyone...
made popular Jun 16 2008
A Singapore man was jailed for three years after he faked his own death in a civil war shoot-out in Sri Lanka in 1987 to escape his creditors and claim S$331,341
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History repeats itself in every nation and everywhere. No country is liberated with a peace treaty signature, this is considered as hypocrisy. But true liberation comes...
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As all of you are aware that Iraq is a country with many sectarian and ethnic groups. And in such countries it is very difficult to manage and administer the country...
made popular May 27 2008
In a distinct deja vu sense, Bangladesh’s military backed interim president Fakhruddin Ahmed forcing former prime ministers Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina into...
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Iraq has now lived four years of brutal U.S. occupation, or a civil war to be precise, and has seen enough bloodshed since the toppling of Saddam’s 20-foot statue...
made popular Apr 9 2007
It never sounds true that war-ravaged Congo is stabilizing. The power of the bullet still beat the power of ballot in DRC.
Is it too much to ask for a moment of...
made popular Mar 30 2007
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