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Analysis
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Monday, 7 March, 2011
By Prashant Rao -
One year after landmark polls, a political impasse in Iraq remains, with several key cabinet posts unfilled and analysts warning bad habits are setting in to the country’s nascent democracy.
The March 7, 2010 election, which saw 62.4 per cent of Iraqis turn out to vote despite v
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Monday, 7 March, 2011
By Amy Coopes -
After a deadly earthquake left homes creaking and wiped out buildings and jobs, thousands of residents have turned their back on Christchurch, raising questions over the city’s future.
City officials estimate one-sixth of Christchurch’s 390,000 population — some 65,000 people — ha
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Monday, 7 March, 2011
By Martin Abbugao -
The unbridled manufacture and use of pesticides in Asia is raising the spectre of “pest storms” devastating the region’s rice farms and threatening food security, scientists have warned.
Increased production of cheap pesticides in China and India, lax regulation and inadequate
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Monday, 7 March, 2011
By Selim Saheb Ettaba -
Under the watery winter sun, a handful of Palestinian workers are plucking strawberries from row-upon-row of plants inside a sprawling greenhouse in the northern West Bank. Once upon a time, these men raised crops and flowers in hothouses in Jewish settlements scattered thr
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Monday, 7 March, 2011
By Matt Robinson -
Fighters are exploiting a governance vacuum in Afghanistan’s remote eastern hinterland, finding funds and safe haven to fuel an escalating war against Nato-led forces. In the border province of Paktika, US and Afghan intelligence officials describe a “shadow” Taliban authority t
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Monday, 7 March, 2011
By Kerry Sheridan -
Apair of costly satellite crashes have dealt a major blow to Nasa’s earth science efforts just as the US space agency faces scrutiny from Congress over whether climate science should be part of its focus at all. The $424 million Glory satellite to monitor aerosols and the sun’s
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Sunday, 6 March, 2011
By Hilary Burke - Argentine economists vow to resist a government crackdown on their independent inflation estimates and accuse President Cristina Fernandez of trying to silence critics before October’s election. The methods used by the consulting firms, which report inflation at more than double th
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Sunday, 6 March, 2011
By Linda Sieg - With his baseball cap and heavy local accent, the mayor of Nagoya city in Japan’s industrial heartland is taking on the sombre, dark-suited — and increasingly unpopular — politicians in Tokyo. “I want to make it a battle of ideologies,” said Takashi Kawamura, whose US Tea Party-like
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Sunday, 6 March, 2011
By Ingrid Melander and Angeliki Koutantou - Amovement more insidious than crippling strikes or anarchist fire bombings is threatening to undermine Greece’s efforts to escape a debt crisis shaking the euro zone. The “I don’t pay” movement — a sullen form of uncivil disobedience — is beginning to star
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Sunday, 6 March, 2011
By David Fogarty - Australia’s farms and vast outback could help cut or offset up to a fifth of the economy’s greenhouse gas emissions, a senior scientist says, as the government struggles to put a price on carbon pollution. The country is a major coal exporter and consumer and is among the highest
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