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/ 19 January 2009
It’s being called ”the voice from the grave”, a remarkable article by a Sri Lankan journalists that was published days after he was murdered.
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/ 17 November 2008
Despite recent US policy, Europe’s security is best served by finding shared ground with Moscow.
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/ 8 November 2008
Obama calls it "an amazing journey", but he would be the first to admit it began when he was only a toddler.
Former Palestinian detainees tell Jonathan Steele
of their alleged abuse by Palestinian Authority forces.
The G8 was not created because countries liked each other but because of the world’s economic problems, says Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Triumph or tragedy? This week’s prisoners-and-bodies exchange across the front lines of Israel’s last major war had elements of both.
”Neither the Constitution nor our people will allow any violation of our sovereignty”, says Hussain al-Shahristani, Iraq’s Oil Minister.
There were tears and sweat aplenty in Moscow’s Luzhniki stadium on Wednesday, but barely any blood. English fans kept calm. Russia’s police avoided running amok. The result was that stereotypes of Russia as a harsh forbidding place lost another chunk of credibility, and its quest to be treated as a ”normal” country on the post-Cold War stage advanced a further step.
Lieutenant General Tommy Franks, who led the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan during his time as head of United States Central Command, once announced: ”We don’t do body counts.” This blunt response to a question about civilian casualties was an attempt to distance George Bush’s wars from the disaster of Vietnam.
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/ 21 January 2008
On November 19 2002, four months before the invasion of Iraq, British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a rare attempt to seek out expert views beyond the circle of his official advisers. Six distinguished academics were invited to Downing Street: three specialists on Iraq, and three on international security.