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PALESTINE: Life, Liberty And The Pursuit Of Unpaid Road Tax
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat spent the first summer of Israel's occupation of the West Bank in 1967 driving around the newly Occupied Territories on a motorcycle, creating new guerrilla cells and championing armed revolution.EUROPE: Non-Members Wait For Invite To Join NATO Gentlemen’s Club
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is inching forwards on the vexed question of when -- or whether -- to invite former Communist states in Central and Eastern Europe to join the West's principal military alliance.AFGHANISTAN: Poised for Change?
It has been a long hot summer for troubled Afghanistan with no let up in the severe strife between its warring factions that erupted after the ouster of the pro- Communist regime in Apr 1992.LATIN AMERICA: Seeds of Terror in Times of Peace
The 145,000 landmines buried in Central America during the 1970's and 1980's are each worth six dollars on the black market.IRAN: Washington Steps up Demonisation Campaign Against Teheran
Flush with its apparent recent success in easing the civil conflict in Bosnia-Hercegovina, and buoyed by the top-ranking defections from Saddam Hussein's regime in August, the U.S. is stepping up pressure on the Islamic government in Teheran.CHINA-UNITED STATES: Ties Take a Deeper Dive over Wu Arrest
China's arrest of Chinese-American human rights activist Harry Wu on charges of espionage and selling state secrets threatens to worsen already-strained relations between Washington and Beijing.CUBA: Castro Takes Advantage of Split Within Exile Community
A move towards dialogue with the Cuban government by a sector of the Cuban exile community in the United States has given President Fidel Castro a golden opportunity to divide that powerful lobby to his benefit.RUSSIA-POLITICS: On the Road to a More Stable, Democratic Russia
The recent peaceful resolution to a constitutional crisis in Russia which threatened the dissolution of both the State Duma and cabinet is a sign that Moscow is on a more stable path of development along democratic lines.CARIBBEAN-TOURISM: Region Fears the Sight of Cuba
It might not have been on the agenda of this week's regional leaders summit, but the thought of the region's declining tourism share was very much on the minds of the Caribbean's political bosses.LABOUR-CHINA: Betting on Enterprise Reform To Make New Jobs
Officially, China has only four percent unemployment. But the country's sheer size means that 55 million people have no jobs.IRAN: Courted But Troubled Teheran Softens its Tone Toward U.S.
Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani this week publicly called for an easing of tensions between Teheran and Washington, heralding a conciliatory shift in Iran's policy toward the superpower.SYRIA-ISRAEL: Assad Waves an Iranian Ace Ahead of Washington Talks
By sending his vice-president to Iran on the eve of peace talks between Syria and Israel, Syrian President Hafez Assad sent a signal to both Washington and Tel Aviv that not only the Golan Heights are at stake in negotiations, but so is south Lebanon.CHILE: Setback and Decline for General Pinochet
The political decline of Chile's Army Commander and former maximum ruler, Gen. Augusto Pinochet continues apace.MIDDLE EAST: Israeli-Arab Peace Process at the Crossroads
On the eve of this week's meeting in Washington between Syrian and Israeli military leaders -- being held under the auspices of the United States -- the Middle East peace process is at the crossroads.INDIA: TWENTY YEARS ON, INDIA RECALLS THE EMERGENCY
EXACTLY 20 YEARS AGO, AT 11.45 P.M. ON JUNE 25, PRESIDENT FAKHRUDDIN ALI AHMED SIGNED A PROCLAMATION DECLARING THAT "A GRAVE EMERGENCY EXISTS WHEREBY THE SECURITY OF INDIA IS THREATENED BY INTERNAL DISTURBANCES".ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: FOREST FIRES GUTTING THE HIMALAYAS
FOREST FIRES ARE RAGING ALL OVER THE FOOTHILLS OF THE HIMALAYAS IN NORTHERN INDIA, CONSUMING PRIME WOOD, AND GUTTING MILLIONS OF TREES.IRAQ: Security Council Wrangling Will See The Sanctions Lifted
The United Nations Security Council this week voted to maintain crippling sanctions on Iraq for another three months, but there is much less support today for the economic and oil embargoes imposed on Baghdad, than there was four years ago.HONG KONG: Patten Grapples With Lame Duck Image
China's refusal to deal in any way with Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten since they clashed over electoral reform has left him grappling with the image of a lame duck leader just waiting for 1997 to make a dignified exit.BANGLADESH: MILITARY TAKEOVER UNLIKELY DESPITE POLITICAL CHAOS
THE POLITICAL ANARCHY FOLLOWING THE EN MASSE RESIGNATION OF THE BANGLADESH OPPOSITION FROM PARLIAMENT AND A SERIES OF STRIKES DEMANDING THE OUSTER OF THE GOVERNMENT HAS -}I0!tTPUS"*%ON OF@A MILITARY TAKEOVER IN THE COUNTRY.MIDDLE EAST: Peace Process at a Crawl as Christopher Ends 11th Tour
U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher Tuesday wrapped up his 11th tour of the Middle East seemingly no closer to engineering comprehensive peace between Israel and the Arabs than at his first visit, analysts say.YUGOSLAVIA: Croatian U.N. Forces Decision Greeted with Relief
Croatia's decision to allow a slimmed- down United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) to remain in the country has been met with relief by the regime of Slobodan Milosevic, the Krajina Serbs and anti-war groups in the region.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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