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10/31/2009
Chechnya rebellion grows into Islamist insurgency
by Philip P Pan
Her face wet with tears and framed by a black shawl, Madina Albakova sat in her ransacked living room and described how she had become another teen-age widow here in Ingushetia, the most volatile of Russia’s Muslim republics.
The details emerged between sobs: the ...
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10/30/2009
Nasa’s long-range mission remains unclear
By Joel Achenbach
It emerged last week, bolted down and gleaming under the floodlights. This was the biggest debut since King Kong, joked the aerospace folks. Then the Ares I-X, the world’s tallest rocket and 327 feet high, blasted off. This is a test rocket, a crude approximation of the ...
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10/29/2009
Obama seeks information on Afghan power brokers
By Scott Wilson and Greg Jaffe
President Obama has asked senior officials for a province-by-province analysis of Afghanistan to determine which regions are being managed effectively by local leaders and which require international help, information his advisers say will guide his decision on ...
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10/27/2009
US ponders role in Indonesia
by Andrew Higgins
In the early 1980s, Nasir Tamara, a young Indonesian scholar, needed money to fund a study of Islam and politics. He went to the Jakarta office of the US-based Ford Foundation to ask for help. He left empty-handed. The United States, he was told, was “not interested in ...
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10/24/2009
Afghans fiercely oppose US hit list of drug traffickers
By Craig Whitlock
A US military hit list of about 50 suspected drug kingpins is drawing fierce opposition from Afghan officials, who say it could undermine their fragile justice system and trigger a backlash against foreign troops.
The US military and Nato officials have authorised ...
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10/23/2009
Arab filmmakers face apathy and lack of understanding
By Raja Abdulrahim
In a dark corner of an Orange County lounge, Ahmad Zahra sat dressed in cargo shorts and a gray T-shirt as around him moved the hubbub of filming “Three Veils.” Occasionally, actresses in little black dresses and heels walked by, waiting for the cameras to roll.
For ...
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10/21/2009
Vengeful Berlusconi plans to tame courts
By Stephen Brown
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, stripped of his immunity from prosecution, plans to hit back at the legal system with reforms which may be tinged with vengeance.
Berlusconi is in no mood to accept meekly the Constitutional Court’s ruling on October 7 that ...
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10/18/2009
Reflections on a war gone wrong
By Bob Woodward and Gordon M Goldstein
Robert McNamara, the former secretary of defence and an architect of the Vietnam War, said it all could have been different if McGeorge Bundy, President Lyndon Johnson’s national security adviser, had not resigned from the White House in early ...
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10/16/2009
Madagascar’s natural resources under siege
By Karin Brulliard
A political crisis in this African island nation has triggered a pillage of its mythical wildlife and forests, and conservation groups fear that the peril will worsen as donors suspend funding to punish coup leaders running the country.
Conservationists say the ...
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10/16/2009
A fairer formula for emissions targets
In the last few months, there have been several significant developments in international climate negotiations. In July, the leaders of the world’s major developed and developing countries made an unequivocal commitment to avoiding a global temperature rise greater than 2C relative to ...
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10/12/2009
The climatic opening of isolated Far North
The fabled Northwest Passage -- linking the Atlantic and Pacific across northern Canada -- saw a period of ice-free navigation in 2007 and 2008.
By Kim Murphy
Most days in Nome, you’re not likely to run into anybody you didn’t see at the Breakers Bar on Friday night. More than ...
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10/11/2009
Amid Afghanistan debate, all eyes on Obama, McCain
McCain has emerged as the most visible advocate for more troops, just as he was when George Bush was considering whether to implement a troop surge in Iraq.
By Dan Balz
Senator John McCain says his exchange with President Obama at a White House meeting last week has been ...
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10/11/2009
Kabul attack may intensify India-Pakistan proxy battle
By Emily Wax
Across Afghanistan, hundreds of Indian workers and engineers are repairing disintegrated roads and constructing highways. India is building the country’s new parliament building. It is running medical missions and training Afghan police officers, diplomats and civil servants, ...
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10/10/2009
Lobbyist pushes to represent Sudan’s reviled regime
A prominent Democratic fundraiser and ally of Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., is attempting to secure a lobbying contract with the pariah regime in Sudan, which has embarked on an aggressive effort to enlist US support against allegations of genocide and war crimes.
Robert Crowe, a ...
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10/9/2009
Would Europe back President Blair?
By Simon Tisdall
Barring unforeseen accidents or a last-minute stealth candidate, the spanking new job of “president of Europe” looks to be Tony Blair’s for the asking. Exactly what Britain’s three-term former prime minister and leading exponent of the Clinton era Third Way would make of the ...
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10/9/2009
In Saudi, a campus built as a beacon of tolerance
Saudi officials describe the multibillion-dollar postgraduate institution as the spear in the kingdom’s efforts to transform itself into a global scientific centre rivaling those in the United States, Europe and Asia.
By Sudarsan Raghavan
THUWAL, Saudi Arabia — On this ...
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10/9/2009
Should Obama accept Nobel peace prize?
If Obama and his people try to act like the Nobel peace prize was really deserved, he could damage himself politically.
by Michael Tomasky
Did Barack Obama earn this Nobel Peace Prize? Obviously not. The world’s stockpile of nuclear weapons (the main specific ...
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10/8/2009
Education City: A world class experience
Having spent my childhood and youth in Qatar, I always thought while growing up that I would have to leave my country for a number of years, not just for my professional career, but also for my education. As I grew up in Doha it seemed to be an accepted truth that my peers and I, all ...
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10/8/2009
Afghans speak up: What Americans need to know
Take advice from locals instead of trying to impose your own ideas on a tribal society. Invite the Taliban to the negotiating table. Use traditional governing structures rather than reinventing the wheel. And spend a lot more money on plowshares than swords. Afghan shopkeepers, women in ...
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10/6/2009
US has yet to grasp the cost of losing in Afghanistan
McChrystal should be given the extra troops he demands. He can only succeed, however, with a major change in strategy.
by Akbar Ahmed
General Stanley McChrystal has all but admitted defeat in Afghanistan. Unless he gets an additional 40,000 troops, the game is up. Unusually ...
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10/6/2009
New Japan govt has problems with chain of command
Japan’s outspoken banking regulator, Shizuka Kamei, known for his anti-market rhetoric, is proving a serious thorn in the side of new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s government just three weeks after it took power.
While Kamei may be an extreme case, Hatoyama’s Democratic Party-led ...
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10/5/2009
Muslim mayor must unify Dutch city
By Henry Chu
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands: The veiled women clutch their children’s hands as they scurry past the liquor store, ignoring rows of vodka bottles on their way to the Muslim butcher next door.
Across the street, male customers emerge from the Climax sex shop with their purchases ...
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10/3/2009
Spectre of tribal punishment haunts Swat
BY Mustafa Qadri
The ghosts of one of Pakistan’s most devastating internal conflicts continue to fester in the scenic north-western mountains of Swat. For civilians newly returned to the region after three months of continuous battles between the army and the Taliban that ended ended last ...
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10/2/2009
Iran engages on nuclear Issue, but concedes little
If the negotiations stall, the US and its EU allies will seek to impose harsher sanctions on Iran, but are likely once again to find Russia and China reluctant to endorse such measures.
By Alistair Lyon
Iran appeared flexible enough at talks with six major powers to mute ...
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10/2/2009
Obama dithers over Afghanistan
General McChrystal knows allied operations need an overhaul. But the president fears a troops boost will turn it into his Vietnam.
by Robert Fox
General Stanley McChrystal seemed to be operating his personal form of deception tactics when he unveiled his new plan – or ...
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