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The POP plan calls for all nations to deny entry to any passport holder whose government refuses to assume financial responsibility for criminal acts committed by the passport holder.
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The Balkans is safer than thought. This is the basic message from a recently published report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, a report whose arguments run counter to common wisdom.
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Memarian has been honored by Human Rights Watch for his work, which
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The legislation broke new ground but the amount$60 million over four yearswas a fraction of the $300 million President Bush had sought for one fiscal year and will be spent on a pilot program.
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Perhaps it helps to be a seasoned Kremlinologist to know who in the politburo on the Potomac is initiating and implement policy on Iran or any other topical international issue.
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Ada Letelier provides her insights into some of the pros and cons of traveling in an organized group, especially for those who have never had the pleasure of traveling in this manner.
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Kashmir Family Aid, founded in 2005 and based in Bend, Ore., works to counter poverty and terrorism while promoting women's rights by providing secular education to quake-affected children.
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It is evident that the India-United States civilian nuclear deal is a victim of oversell as a
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On June 10, Samuel Atere-Roberts participated as project manager in the commissioning of the solar powered computer center at the Prince of Wales School in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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Many have missed out on the economic boom of the past decade that has seen robust growth rates but which has been largely driven by huge capital investments that have created few employment opportunities.
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The detention of presidential contender Tsvangirai by police for nearly 12 hours on Wednesday is another instance of the orchestrated harassment of opposition supporters and other organizations.
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The United States needs to look outside of the "military might" box when it comes to foreign engagement and take an active lead in developing soft power approaches to mitigate conflict.
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The pro-revolution forces face a big challenge in securing an overwhelming victory in the November regional elections in order not to lose ground to the United States-backed opposition.
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"We accepted that narcotics are both dangerous and illegal. What we argued, though, was that because of those facts, Insite is a crucial access point to health care and treatment. And the judge agreed."
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An interesting facet of the Sino-African project is the issue of standards diplomacy in the context of the evolving relationship between booming China and not-so-booming Africa.
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Pat Eatock, a Goomiegyrie and a grandmother of the Kairi (or Gyrie) nation from central Queensland, Australia, looks at Aboriginal dispossession since the 1967 citizenship referendum.
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India currently faces three major problems that are stalling the bandwagon of its normal routine: inflation, the Gujjar agitation, and the Gorkha (Gurkha) agitation.
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Today, the Mediterranean is on the frontlines of a global struggle for peace and development. I would like to stress from the Greek point of view, the core challenge: ending the problem of Cyprus.
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Both Greece and Bulgaria stubbornly refuse to comply with decisions by the European Court of Human Rights to allow the registration of the political parties of their Macedonian minorities.
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That consultants enrich themselves from the generosity of donor nations undermines the whole point of foreign aid. It spreads cynicism among those in the field providing aid and among donor nations.
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Norman Finkelstein believes the peace moves with Syria and Lebanon, and the ceasefire with Hamas, have less to do with the Palestinian issue than they have with dealing with Iran's perceived nuclear threat.
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The kingdom has long been perceived as a piece of desert ruled by an ultraconservative clergy with radical interpretations of Islam.
My Saudi friend calls these sheer misperceptions.
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The use of violence has never helped us in Palestine, but has, on the contrary, always damaged us; for example, suicide bombings gave Israel the justification for building the dividing wall.
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