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The World this Week: May 31, 2007
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On Monday, Japanese Agriculture Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka became the first cabinet-level official to take his own life since World War II in an episode rocking the nation’s political system.
WHO passes agreement to combat yellow fever in West Africa
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Last Wednesday in Geneva, the World Health Organization (WHO) passed through its assembly a new initiative to combat yellow fever in West Africa.
The World this week: May 17, 2007
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A roadside bomb north of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, killed four African Union (AU) soldiers Wednesday, the most deadly strike yet against the force of 1,600 Ugandan troops that arrived in the Somali capital in March. In the meantime, the AU’s main peacekeeping mission outside of Somalia - Darfur - is falling into serious jeopardy.
The World this Week: 5/9/07
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The former president of the southern African state of Zambia was found guilty on Friday of stealing vast amounts of public funds while in office. Frederick Chiluba, the country’s first democratically elected leader, was head of state from 1991 to 2001. The British court harshly condemned Mr.
The World This Week: May 3, 2007
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The World this Week: 4/26/07
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In Nigeria this week, the opposition to the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) are demanding that the results of the weekend’s presidential elections to be thrown out and are calling for Nigerians to take to the streets in protest.
The World This Week: April 20. 2007
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Since its liberation from France in 1960, the CAR was ruled by a series of military dictatorships until a decade-long period of elected civilian rule began in 1993.
The World This Week: April 12, 2007
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The leaders of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference circulated a pastoral letter on Easter Sunday condemning the treatment of opposition leaders by the government of President Robert Mugabe.
The World this Week: 3/9/07
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The talks between the Bush administration and the regime of dictator Kim Jong Il, which President Bush assigned to the “axis of evil” in his first term, represent a major shift in U.S.
The world this week: March 2, 2007
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The World This Week: Peace process amid talk of war in MidEast
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In the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice attempted this week to revitalize the peace process in Israel-Palestine, but, thus far, her efforts have shown no concrete progress.
The World this Week: 2/16/07
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After more than three years of disagreement and deadlock, the six-party nuclear disarmament talks between the United States, China, North Korea, South Korea, Japan and Russia took a major step forward on Tuesday.
The World This Week
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Last week in Paris, 46 states discussed the new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the first in more than five years. The IPCC concluded that human beings are probably the principal cause of global warming and that cataclysmic natural disasters in the forms of rising sea levels, massive storms or severe droughts will be likely results of climate change. The 46 participants of last week?s conference, which was convened by French President Jacques Chirac, called for the creation of a new international body to monitor climate change and to punish major carbon-emitting nations.
On Global Affairs: Hands Off South America
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On Global Affairs: Seven pillars for a new way forward
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Just two weeks ago, President Bush issued an unprecedented and strangely anticlimactic mea culpa for the failures of the American campaign in Iraq.
On Global Affairs: Happy NEU Year
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One thing former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld won’t have to worry about in his first year off the job: Old Europe.
On Global Affairs: Don't trust, but verify
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On Global Affairs: Keep your eyes on Hanoi
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On Global Affairs: The new Anti-Imperialism
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On Global Affairs: A Weapon of Mass Distraction
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What will Iran do with a nuclear weapon?
On Global Affairs: Globalkanization
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Everyone agrees that something is happening in Iraq this month. Everyone also agrees that no one knows what it is.
On Global Affairs: Northeast Asia by the numbers
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Just over a week ago, a seismic tremor with a magnitude of an approximately 4.2 rumbled through Northeast Asia, revealing that North Korea has become the world’s eighth nuclear power.
On Global Affairs: A Red October
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The fight against despotism, arbitrary rule and corruption is like a war against darkness.
Plan Afghanistan
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In October of 2001, the United States military entered Afghanistan, heading an international force and coordinating with the Afghan Northern Alliance to destroy Al-Qaeda’s base and unseat its governmental partner, the Taliban.