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EUROPE: Germans Love Obama – For Now
By Julio Godoy
BERLIN - The extraordinary enthusiasm with which Germans greeted U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama in Berlin Thursday may have concealed a fear: once the presidency of George W. Bush ends, Germans might be forced to close ranks with the U.S. and go back to playing the role of military junior partner of a superpower at war.
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POLITICS-US: A League of Their Own
By Ali Gharib
WASHINGTON - A radical foreign policy idea put forth by presumptive Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain has drawn cheers of support from sources as varied as his campaign's neo-conservative backers to liberal internationalists from the camp of his rival, Sen. Barack Obama. But the idea is not without some surprising detractors.
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EUROPE: U.S. Seeks the Peaceful Way for Military Base
By Zoltán Dujisin
PRAGUE - NATO countries have given cautious support to U.S. plans to extend its missile defence system to Eastern Europe, just as Washington is working hard to fulfil Russia's conditions to agree to its construction.
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GLOBALISATION: New Curbs on Investment From the South
Analysis by Julio Godoy
BERLIN - Germany's decision to introduce controls on investments from the South in strategic domestic sectors is yet another indicator of growing protectionism in European and other industrialised countries against the neo-liberal globalisation they once masterminded.
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POLITICS: Not Easy to Come in From the Cold War
Analysis by Claudia Ciobanu
BUCHAREST - NATO and Russia made little progress in settling their disputes during the alliance's summit in Bucharest this week. But the two sides insisted the Cold War is over and that they are open to compromise.
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AFGHANISTAN: More, But of What
Analysis by Claudia Ciobanu
BUCHAREST - At the Bucharest summit, NATO adopted an undisclosed "comprehensive" security strategy in Afghanistan, which combines military with civilian efforts. The publicised discussions on Afghanistan, however, were focused on the numbers of troops.
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US-MEXICO: Border Wall Condemns Jaguars to Extinction
By Stephen Leahy*
TORONTO - Jaguars have no place in the United States, although a handful still roam the southwest. Environmentalists suspect the real reason U.S. officials are allowing the jaguar to become extinct is the "security" wall being built along the Mexican border.
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POLITICS: Security Council Loses Credibility Over Iran, Israel
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The 15-member U.N. Security Council (UNSC) is set to lose its credibility once again as it prepares to impose a third set of sanctions on Iran while failing to pass any strictures on Israel for its continued heavy-handed repression of Palestinians in Gaza.
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CHALLENGES 2007-2008: U.N. Remains Impotent as Captive of U.S.
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - As Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon begins his second year in office, he has refused to claim any tangible successes during 2007, nor has he laid out any clear-cut strategy to meet the political and economic challenges facing the United Nations in 2008.
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DEVELOPMENT: U.S. Key to Balanced Carbon Budget, UN Says
By Haider Rizvi
UNITED NATIONS - Calls for profound change in the environmental behaviour of the United States are on the rise as world leaders prepare to attend a major summit on climate change in Bali, Indonesia next month.
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POLITICS-US: The Nuclear Cowboys
Analysis by Khody Akhavi
WASHINGTON - What do the current Pakistani political crisis, Israel's September air strike against Syria, and Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear enrichment all have in common? All three events reflect the aggressive policies adopted by the George W. Bush administration to deal with the growing threat of nuclear proliferation.
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MIGRATION: 35 Countries Agree to Regulate Flows Across Mediterranean
By Mario de Queiroz
ALBUFEIRA, Portugal - Everyone agrees: migration flows from the developing South to the industrialised North must be regulated to curb the appalling trafficking of human beings across the Mediterranean sea.
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POLITICS: Iraqi MPs Challenge Coalition Mandate
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations Security Council has been warned by Iraqi parliamentarians of a potentially "serious" constitutional and political crisis if it decides to renew the mandate of the U.S.-led multinational force (MNF) beyond December 2007, without approval from lawmakers.
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UNITED STATES - OVER OR UNDER THE UN?
By Fredrik S. Heffermehl
However much the Iraqi people need and deserve urgent assistance from the UN, the member organisations cannot permit the United States to wage wars of aggression and leave it to the UN to tidy up when the US gets bogged down, writes Fredrik S. Heffermehl, president of the Norwegian Peace and member of the International Peace Bureau.
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WILL UNILATERALISM DESTROY THE UN?
By Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Closely following world events, I fear that unilateralism may destroy the United Nations, writes Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1991-1995.
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