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Analysis
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Tuesday, 7 May, 2013
By Nasir Hafeez -
nasirhafeez1321@yahoo.com -
SPYING and counter-spying against other countries has become common with all governments. When two nations do not see eye-to-eye on significant issues, their snooping activity assumes phenomenal proportions.
Every possible means are used to gather i
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Tuesday, 7 May, 2013
SEVEN-TIME former Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti, who died yesterday at the age of 94, was a cunning political power broker who presided over Italy's recovery after World War II and was accused of close ties with the mafia.
A government minister for over three decades, Andreotti was involv
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Tuesday, 7 May, 2013
IN forested hills in eastern Congo, rebels are honing their ambush skills to prepare to face a new United Nations force which has a mandate to go on the offensive.
"Destroy the enemy. Cause fear and stop his patrols," a rebel officer wrote on a blackboard as he instructed uniformed M23 fighters at
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Monday, 6 May, 2013
By Andy Jalil — Foreign Correspondent — NOT since the days of former prime minister, Margaret Thatcher has privatisation featured quite so prominently in the plans of the UK government. Now a new wave in its favour will get under way in the next few months. It is likely to start with the sale of Roy
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Monday, 6 May, 2013
By Sammy Ketz — VETERAN Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN-Arab League envoy for Syria, has insisted throughout his career that there is no "hopeless situation", but he has not managed to find a magical solution to end Syria's civil war. And the 79-year-old Brahimi, who took on the job last A
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Monday, 6 May, 2013
By Peter Martell — LAST year, the arrival form in Somalia's war-shattered capital demanded visitors list the calibre of guns they were carrying. Today, signs in the airport warn of the health risks of smoking. Small changes — but Somalia, once a byword for war and anarchy, appears to be slowly turni
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Monday, 6 May, 2013
By David Morgan — HEALTHCARE reform should be the signature Democratic achievement of President Barack Obama's presidency. But with "Obamacare" five months from show time, Democrats are worried about whether enough Americans will sign up to make the sweeping healthcare overhaul a success — and what
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Monday, 6 May, 2013
Mehreen Zahra-Malik and Michael Georgy — NAWAZ Sharif, seen as the front-runner in Pakistan's election race, said the country should reconsider its support for the US war on terror and suggested that he was in favour of negotiations with the Taliban. Pakistan backed American efforts to stamp out glo
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Sunday, 5 May, 2013
By Shaun Tandon — SOUTH Korea's new leader visits Washington this week on a mission to present a united front to a bellicose North Korea and also to safeguard her country's increasingly outsized role in the world. President Park Geun-Hye took office in February as the first woman to lead a Northeast
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Sunday, 5 May, 2013
By Veronica Sardon — US President Barack Obama and his host, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, emphasised last week a new phase in ties between the two countries, one that focuses more on their economic partnership and moves away from stereotypes and traditional problems. "It's time for us to pu
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