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Analysis
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Monday, 6 June, 2011
By Tim Witcher -
BAN Ki-Moon’s campaign for a second term as United Nations leader gathers pace today when he is to formally announce that he wants to stay on as secretary-general, diplomats said.
With no declared rival for the post and none of the five permanent members of the Security Council o
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Monday, 6 June, 2011
By Thomas Grove -
PRESIDENT Ilham Aliyev is opening the tap from Azerbaijan’s oil revenues, boosting salaries and building schools, aiming to ensure bubbling discontent does not boil over into the kind of unrest that has swept the Arab world.
Sitting astride large oil and natural gas reserves whi
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Monday, 6 June, 2011
By Pete Harrison -
EUROPE’S climate chief struck a defiant note in an escalating row over moves to make airlines pay for carbon pollution, saying Brussels would not cave in to threats of trade retaliation.
From January 1 next year, the EU will require all airlines flying to Europe to be included
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Monday, 6 June, 2011
By Daphne Benoit -
NEARLY five months after Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s removal from power in the first days of the conflicts, Tunisia looks to rebuild an economy mired in political uncertainty.
Tunisia, used to posting at least five per cent annual growth, faces stagnation this year as the authori
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Monday, 6 June, 2011
By Caroline Stauffer/Terry Wade -
A LEFTIST former army commander faced the right-wing daughter of a jailed ex-president in Peru’s tight presidential election yesterday, in a combative race to lead a young democracy and booming economy.
Opinion polls show an extremely close vote between Ollanta H
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Sunday, 5 June, 2011
By Aleksandra Niksic - ALMOST a decade after a conflict that brought Macedonia to the brink of civil war, the country’s ethnic Albanians are pinning their hopes for the future on faster integration into the EU after today’s polls.
“The time has come for reforms and strengthening the state to ensure
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Sunday, 5 June, 2011
By Daniel Silva - PORTUGAL’S centre-right opposition looks set to oust the Socialists from power today in an early general election that will decide who will implement a demanding 78-billion-euro bailout deal. Final polls published last Friday gave the Social Democrats (PSD) around 36 per cent of th
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Sunday, 5 June, 2011
By Henry Foy - BORN in a dusty village in northern India to illiterate parents, Swami Ramdev heads a $40 million-a-year global yoga empire, owns an island off the coast of Scotland and has government ministers scurry to meet him on the steps of his private jet.
Trained in the ancient discipline of
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Sunday, 5 June, 2011
By Pedro da Costa - NOT everyone is lamenting a weak US recovery that again looks to be running out of steam. For managers at Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the jobless rebound has made it easier to hire qualified employees — and enabled the company to work them a little harder.
Yet this benign environment i
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Sunday, 5 June, 2011
By Renee Maltezou - A YEAR after it turned to the EU and the IMF for a bailout, Greece is struggling to meet targets and convince its lenders it deserves extra funding to buy it more time to resolve its debt crisis.
Bleak macroeconomic data and increasing fears that Greece will have to extend debt
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