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Analysis
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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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Sunday, 5 May, 2013
By Helen Livingstone — THE success of an anti-Europe party once dismissed as "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists" by Prime Minister David Cameron dealt a blow to his Conservative party last Friday, producing the best results in local elections of any fourth party in Britain since World War II. B
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Sunday, 5 May, 2013
By Sajjad Tarakzai — PAKISTAN'S tribal belt may have been dubbed the world's most dangerous place by the United States, but enthusiastic tribesmen are defying the Taliban to vote for change at this week's polls. More than 60 people have been killed in militant attacks targeting politicians and polit
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Sunday, 5 May, 2013
By Amulya Ganguli — EVER since the Indian government led by Manmohan Singh became embroiled in scams, it has been mainly the Supreme Court that has pushed for accountability. In doing so, it has taken recourse to a new technique for ascertaining the truth — that of virtually appropriating to itself
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Sunday, 5 May, 2013
By Clare Byrne — TAKING over the French presidency in the midst of the worst economic crisis in decades was never going to be a bed of roses. Francois Hollande himself had predicted as much. But the Socialist, whose election was heralded as a new dawn for France and a Europe gloomy with austerity, c
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