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POLITICS-UN: Donor Nations Grab Top Jobs in UN Agencies
A Japanese diplomat campaigning on behalf of his countryman for the top job at the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) remarked pointedly last week: "No Japan, No UNESCO."RIGHTS-BURMA: Dissident Movement Debating Violence Option
The hostage-taking by dissident students at the Burmese embassy here in early October, apart from souring Thai-Burma ties, has kindled heated debate within the Burmese pro- democracy movement over the use of violent means to further its cause.POLITICS: US Ready to OK Army Rule in Pakistan – with Conditions
While the United States insists that it will not carry on "business as usual" with any military-run government in Pakistan, the administration appears ready to offer the generals its conditional support.POLITICS-PAKISTAN: Heard It All Before?
If statements by Pakistan Gen. Pervez Musharraf since he seized power one week ago sound familiar - they are.POLITICS-US: Return of Fortress America?
President Bill Clinton waded into the Republican dominated US Senate this week for refusing to ratify the Comprehensive Test Bank Treaty (CTBT) that he called the latest in a series of signs of a "new isolationism."POLITICS: Hardline Takeover in India, Pakistan Heralds Trouble
As soon as Gen Pervez Musharraf dismissed Nawaz Sharif on October 12, India put its troops on "high alert", while expressing "grave concern" at the development.POLITICS-UN: Specific Sanctions in Vogue
The imposition of broad-based sanctions may have lost favour with most UN members as a means of putting pressure on nations but sanctions targeted at selected 'rogue' leaders remain popular.POLITICS-AFGHANISTAN: Taliban Emerges as UN Pariah
Support for UN embargoes against Libya and Iraq may be weakening but the UN Security Council has found a new target for sanctions: Afghanistan and its ruling Taliban movement.POLITICS-UN: Return of the Blue Berets?
The image of the blue-bereted UN peacekeeper earlier this year was that of a soldier in retreat, after long United Nations missions to Angola and Macedonia, but the fortunes of the blue berets suddenly have shifted.ECONOMY-HEALTH: World Bank’s Prescription for a Better World
Like a good doctor, the World Bank has diagnosed the problems that inflict its most helpless patients - the sick and the poor of the developing world.POLITICS-INDIA: Counter-Terrorism As Diplomatic Opportunity
India, a founder and long-time advocate of non-alignment, is straining to establish closer diplomatic and strategic relations with the United States by using "counter- terrorism" as a tactical plank.POLITICS-CHILE: The Pinochet Case, the EU and the Cuba Summit
In its enthusiasm to prevent former dictator Augusto Pinochet's trial for extradition to Spain, which began Monday in London, the Chilean government made decisions that could prove costly to its foreign affairs.POLITICS-BURUNDI: Peace Seems Further and Further Away
Virtually every day, there is news of a fresh attack, raid or shoot-out in Burundi, the escalating violence creating dozens of civilian casualties.CONFLICT-CAUCASUS: Russia Employs NATO’s Attrition Tactics
When NATO stepped up its bombing campaign against civilian targets in Yugoslavia earlier this year, Russia described the action as "barbarous," but learned lessons now being applied in Chechnya.RIGHTS-EAST TIMOR: Leads Await An International Tribunal
If and when an international tribunal is set up to look into the atrocities in East Timor, investigators will find a number of leads pointing to violations of human rights during the bloodbath that marked the early days of the emergent nation.POLITICS-INDIA: Sullen Kashmir Registers Its Protest
By boycotting elections to the Indian Parliament in large numbers, the people of Jammu and Kashmir are strongly registering their disillusionment with New Delhi and with their own chief minister, Farooq Abdullah.POLITICS-UN: Sharp Divisions in Security Council
The five veto-holding permanent members of the UN Security Council have had their differences in the past but this week's meetings in New York underscored lingering divisions on a wide range of issues.TRADE: Protectionism an ‘Unstable Pillar’ of World Economy
Developing countries have lost at least four times as much to Western trade barriers than they have gained from a widely-acclaimed upsurge in private capital flows.POLITICS-DRC: Rough-necks And Renegades
The first three weeks of the Congolese peace process have been predictably fraught with ups and downs.DISASTER-TURKEY: A Presidential Silhouette Hangs Over the Wreckage
As the debris of last month's earthquake is slowly being removed in the devastated Izmit Bay area, it is president Suleyman Demirel's ghostly silhouette what takes its place, critics of the "godfather of Turkish industrialization" say.HEALTH-AFRICA: All Talk And Little Action To Fight HIV/AIDS
Zambia's privately-owned 'The Post' newspaper did not expect much from the just-ended 'Eleventh International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Africa' (ICASA).« Previous Page — Next Page »
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