This Russian risk could yet dwarf our blunder on Iraq
Putin’s belligerence is the upshot of inept western diplomacy. Following cold war with cold peace may prove a historic error
The Guardian
Simon Jenkins
Wednesday June 6, 2007
Available at: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/columnist/story/0,,2096411,00.html
Will history tell us we were fools? We worried about the wrong war and made the wrong enemies. In [...]
Gold from the storm
The Economist
28 July 2007
Available at: http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9401752
Ten years after Asia’s financial crisis, the region is booming again. Has it fully recovered or are economic mistakes being repeated?
Reuters
HONG KONG, MANILA and SEOUL - IT IS an unhappy anniversary: July 2nd 1997, the official start of the catastrophic Asian financial crisis. On that day Thailand [...]
Sarkozy orders accord on managing exchange rates as Euro reaches new high
International Herald Tribune
By Carter Dougherty
11 July 2007
Available at: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/11/technology/econ.php
FRANKFURT: The dollar sank to its [...]
SPLM Secretary General says “genocide” going on in Darfur
Sudan Tribune
Wednesday 11 July 2007 05:30
By Roba Gibia
Available at: http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article22793
The Secretary General of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) described the situation in Sudan’s troubled region of Darfur as “genocide in its really meaning” adding that it represents a real challenge for all the Sudanese.
In a [...]
Sudanese flee as Darfue violence worsens
The Age (Australia)
Thursday July 12 2007
By Evelyn Leopold
Available at: http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/sudanese-flee-as-darfur-violence-worsens/2007/07/11/1183833596993.html
VIOLENCE has escalated in Sudan’s Darfur region since January, throwing another 160,000 people out of their homes and forcing 4.2 million people to rely on relief aid.
The United Nations has reported that some 2.1 million people have been uprooted from their [...]
AIDS number game: To Cheer or not to Cheer
New Delhi Television Limited
Tuesday July 10 2007
By: Pallava Bagla
Available at: http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/showcolumns.aspx?id=COLEN20070018415
It just may be premature to start celebrating that the case load for people infected with the dreaded Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has come down by half to 2.47 million as per the latest estimate released [...]
Ankara to help Africa fight terroism
Africa News
Tuesday 10 July 2007
Available at: http://www.africa-interactive.net/index.php?PageID=5126
10 July 2007 - PANA. A senior official of the Turkish ministry of foreign affairs, Hasan Gorgus, declared Monday in Istanbul, Turkey, his country’s readiness to help Africa to tackle the terrorist threat. “We did not wait until 11 September 2001 to engage [...]
Eritrea Labeled Worst Jailer of Journalists in Africa
Voice of America
Wednesday 11 July 2007
By Nick Wadhams
Available at: http://voanews.com/english/2007-07-11-voa15.cfm
An international media group says Eritrea is jailing more journalists than any other nation in Africa. As Nick Wadhams reports from our East Africa bureau in Nairobi, the harsh conditions have forced many journalists in the secretive Horn [...]
In Syria, Girls March as timebomb ticks
MSNBC
Tuesday July 10 2007 9:42
By Richard Engel
Available at: http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/07/10/265072.aspx
The girls circle the stage in a nightclub outside of Damascus, holding hands in protective pairs as they march, always counterclockwise, at the same slow pace, one unenthusiastic step per second.
It’s 3 a.m., but bright as a hospital ward in here. [...]
Cocoa exports “fund” Ivory Coast conflict
Financial Times: Deutschland
Wednesday 11 July 2007
By von William Wallis and Dino Mahtani
Available at: http://www.ftd.de/karriere_management/business_english/:Business%20English%20Cocoa%20Ivory%20Coast/224185.html
Cocoa exports contributed to as much as 30 per cent of the Ivory Coast’s military expenditure during one six-month period.
Plenty of people already feel guilty when they eat a bar of chocolate. Now an international pressure group [...]