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Africa Review
Posted on September 3, 2010
Benin: Thousands left penniless after collapse of Ponzi scheme
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    Pakistan's rich 'diverted floods to save their land'
    Posted on September 3, 2010
    A senior Pakistan diplomat has accused "powerful" figures of diverting floodwaters into unprotected areas to save their own land.
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    • Mexico army kills dozens of drug suspects
    Posted on September 3, 2010
    Soldiers shoot dead suspected drug cartel members near US border.
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    Phone-hacking row returns to haunt Cameron's chief spin doctor
    Posted on September 3, 2010
    The Prime Minister's media adviser Andy Coulson faces being summoned to court to give evidence over further allegations of phone-hacking by reporters from the News of the World during the time he was editing the newspaper.
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    Middle East Review
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    Iran calls Carla Bruni a 'prostitute’
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    Venezuelans are desperate for change
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    For all the ways the Venezuelan election is being rigged, it says much about Hugo Chávez's unpopularity that he could still lose
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    • Flying the flag, faking the news
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    John Pilger: Loud noises from Washington about a US pull-out from Iraq are a poor disguise for America’s determination to keep waging war. And the same sort of spin is at work here in Britain 
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    • Grief Across Latin America for Migrant Killings
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    AGUA CALIENTE, Guatemala — He was warned the journey north would be hard, so Gilmar Morales beefed up on eggs and sausage, bought some ham sandwiches from the bodega across the street, told his mother he loved her and set off with two other relatives on a path well-traveled by young people here in one of Latin America’s poorest countries.
  • 72 dead migrants found in Mexico tip of iceberg                              
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    • EU keen to strike deal with Muammar Gaddafi on immigration
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    The European Union is keen to strike a pact with Muammar Gaddafi to stem the flow of immigrants across the Mediterranean, officials said today, after the Libyan leader put a price tag of €5bn (£4.1bn) a year on the deal.
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    Why Sarkozy went to war on the Roma
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    The President's crackdown was meant to strengthen his grip on power, but could split his government instead
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    • Obama's high-stakes gamble on peace deal that eluded predecessors
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    Now it's his turn. After the elder George Bush, Bill Clinton and George Bush the younger, Barack Obama has became the fourth consecutive American president to seek international diplomacy's hitherto impossible prize: Israeli-Palestinian peace.
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    Invisible War: How Thirteen Years of US-Imposed Economic Sanctions Devastated Iraq Before the 2003 Invasion
    Posted on September 1, 2010
    While the US invasion and occupation of Iraq over the past seven years has inflicted multiple disasters on the country, many argue that the US assault on Iraq really began twenty years ago with the US-imposed economic sanctions. Joy Gordon, author of Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions, writes, "U.S. policymakers effectively turned a program of international governance into a legitimized act of mass slaughter."
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    • Deaths in bomb attack on Mexico bar
    Posted on September 1, 2010
    In a sign of the widening violence in Mexico, eight people have been killed in Cancun after suspected drug gang members threw bombs into a bar on the city's outskirts, according to the local attorney-general's office.
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    • Europe Review
    Posted on September 1, 2010
    Rape charges reissued against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
  • Sex and the city of Berlin          
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    Unveiling Fear & Prejudice
    Posted on September 1, 2010
    What if Cordoba House in Lower Manhattan (ground-zero mosque) was given the green light? Would not that ‘single building’ have done wonders to the repair of seemingly irreparable US-Islam relations and to the US’s own image in the Muslim World?
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    Despite 'all that money,' more than 1 million Haitians remain displaced by January earthquake
    Posted on September 1, 2010
    PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Immacula Pierre had a question. Why, she wanted to know, are she and 50,000 other homeless Haitians still living in a squalid tent city on the Champ de Mars, an esplanade in the heart of Port-au-Prince just across the street from the destroyed National Palace.
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    First the flood, then the condescension
    Posted on September 1, 2010
    Five years ago, on 29 August 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the southern US city of New Orleans. The force of the massive storm destroyed a series of levees that protected the city from the waters of nearby Lake Pontchartrain, and the ensuing damage was catastrophic. Over 1,400 people perished. Eighty per cent of the city was flooded, destroying entire neighbourhoods. Property damage amounted to billions of dollars.
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    Getting drunk in Kabul bars? Pass the sick bag
    Posted on September 1, 2010
    "Kabul is the new Beirut." This frivolous drivel fell from the mouth of a journalist in Afghanistan. She was effervescent with excitement about the prospect of Kabul's expatriate bars being even more hip than those in Beirut. Beirut – where they dance to the beat of the bombs, where alcohol flows freely and women are freer still.
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    In Central Asia, a new headache for U.S. policy
    Posted on September 1, 2010
    BISHKEK, KYRGYZSTAN - Beset by mounting casualties on the battlefield and deepening disquiet at home over the United States' longest war, President Obama's Afghan policy now faces another big headache: the unraveling of central authority in Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian nation that hosts a U.S. air base critical to the battle against the Taliban.
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    Russian mafia taking over French Riviera
    Posted on September 1, 2010
    Mafia kingpins from the former Soviet Union have moved into the French Riviera and are taking over with “quasi-military” precision. Their grip on the region is now so tight that Riviera detectives expect an eastern connection to almost every crime.
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    Obama Says Iraq Combat Mission Is Over
    Posted on September 1, 2010
    WASHINGTON — President Obama declared an end on Tuesday to the seven-year American combat mission in Iraq, saying that the United States has met its responsibility to that country and that it is now time to turn to pressing problems at home.
  • Obama ends 'combat mission' in Iraq                 
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    Asia Review
    Posted on August 31, 2010
    Crocodile Dundee prevented from leaving Australia over tax bill
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    Afghanistan bomb attacks kill twenty-one US soldiers in 48 hours
    Posted on August 31, 2010
    A series of bomb attacks have badly hit US troops in eastern and southern Afghanistan in the past 48 hours. The death toll among in the Nato-led coalition has reached 484 this year and is predicted to far surpass 2009’s total of 521.
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    Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's family turned away from prison visit
    Posted on August 31, 2010
    Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning was told by guards she had been abandoned by her children, says son
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    Caste in stone
    Posted on August 31, 2010
    India's caste system was outlawed in 1950 but caste discrimination still exists. Age-old traditions continue to rule in modern-day India, where at least 1,000 people are killed in 'honour killings' every year.
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