The Associated Press
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
 
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MANILA, Philippines: Asia’s top security forum is discussing the creation of a new group to help prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction, officials said Wednesday.
Members of the ASEAN Regional Forum have agreed to establish a nonproliferation mechanism after it was proposed by [...]

The Associated Press
Wednesday, August 1, 2007

 
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MANILA, Philippines: The U.S. dismissed suggestions that its commitment to Asia is waning. Russia said it wants to get more involved in the region. So did China, and everyone agreed that nuclear weapons should be kept out.
Wednesday was the day for intense discussions [...]

The Associated Press
31 July 2007
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MANILA, Philippines: Having agreed to set up a regional human rights body, Southeast Asian nations now face the more difficult task of reaching consensus on how it will work, officials said Tuesday.
Human rights watchdog Amnesty International applauded the foreign ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast Nations for agreeing to [...]

Agence France-Presse
Last updated 08:35pm (Mla time) 07/30/2007
MANILA, Philippines — Southeast Asian nations on Monday called on the United States and other nations to pull their forces out of Iraq, saying the move would help bring the war-torn country back to normal.
Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) issued the call in a [...]

Informed Comment Global Affairs Blog
Guest Op-Ed by Howard Eissenstat
31 July 2007
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Howard Eissenstat is an Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History at Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ.
It is hard to understate the high drama of the Turkish elections that took place on July 22nd. One leading candidate, Devlet Bahçeli, of the neo-fascist [...]

Musharraf risks civil war as he invades the Al-Qaeda badlands
July 29, 2007
Times (UK)
By: Ghulam Hasnain
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IN North Waziristan, the wild border land that America hopes will be Osama Bin Laden’s graveyard, the normally busy roads are almost deserted and the fear is pervasive. Army helicopters sweep the valleys at night hunting for Al-Qaeda militants as [...]

Israel Voices Satisfaction Over U.S. Aid Increase
July 29, 2007
REUTERS
Reported by Andrew Grey and Avida Landua
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US boosts Israel’s annual defense aid to $3 billion
Daily Star
Monday, July 30, 2007
Compiled by Daily Star staff
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert voiced satisfaction on Sunday over Washington’s intention to offset a package of arms sales [...]

Al Jazeera
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Al Jazeera reports:
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has urged EU members to be prepared to compromise on talks over the bloc’s controversial constitution before a summit next week.
Her comments on Saturday came before she attempted to persuade Poland’s president to [...]

Q&A: EU constitution’s future
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The EU is trying hard to find a replacement for the European constitution, two years after its rejection in referendums in France and the Netherlands.
Germany, which holds the presidency of the EU Council of Ministers until the end of June, is leading the effort to [...]

THE WORLD FROM BERLIN
SPIEGEL ONLINE
Spielgel Online (Germany)
Siobhán Dowling
27 July 2007
URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,496914,00.html
French President Nicolas Sarkozy went to Tripoli on Wednesday and struck a number of deals with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, including promises to build a nuclear reactor. Now critics in Germany and France are crying foul, accusing him of going it alone and potentially endangering [...]