Hot Topics AA: Airbus Loses South Africa Military Transporter Order 11/05/09 AA: South African Company to Begin Mining for Diamonds in Zimbabwe 11/06/09 BW: Botswana: UB Scholar Doubts RISDP Success 11/09/09 ET: Ethiopia – War crimes perpetrator paraded as a “Statesman leading Africa” 11/07/09 GN: Guinea will shrug off sanctions: junta aide 11/09/09 LR: Liberia: …
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The Elephant in the Room: A war of ideas within Islam Backward views hold sway in much of the Muslim world. And yet there is hope. By Rick Santorum Thu, Nov. 5, 2009 The students, one man and two women, wore Western-style clothes and spoke English with little or no accent. They disputed my description …
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Italian Troops Denied Access To Intelligence Reports, Minister Says Richard Owen TimesOnline (UK) October 20, 2009 Italy is denied full access to intelligence assessments in Afghanistan, a restriction that affects its troops’ ability to operate safely and hampers allied co-ordination, the Italian Foreign Minister said yesterday. The lack of co-ordination and pooled intelligence between Nato …
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Hot Topics AA: SA slips in governance ratings 10/01/09 GN: Thousands of people have gathered at a mosque in Guinea’s capital … 10/02/09 MG: Madagascar says consensus government not viable 10/04/09 NG: Nigeria rebel disarms under amnesty 10/04/09 SO: Somali gunmen release 3 foreign aid workers 10/03/09 SO: Somalia: Harakat Al-Shabab Mujahideen Forces Closes Down …
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Hot Topics BR: Brazil favors developing nuclear weapons for ‘respectability’ 09/28/09 CL: WATER SHORTAGE PREDICTED FOR NORTHERN CHILE 09/24/09 CO: Colombia finds 2 mass graves of peasants, rebels 09/25/09 CO: Colombia to compensate victims of paramilitary massacre 09/24/09 HN: Honduras refuses to allow 4 foreign ambassadors in the country 09/27/09 HN: Political Honduras’ Ousted President …
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Hot Topics AM: Cyber Wars: Experts say Armenia IT sector vulnerable to attack 07/24/09 GE: Georgia Leaving an Ailing CIS Organisation 07/27/09 IL: Israel pays NIS 3.25 million to protester shot by Border Police 07/28/09 KV: Isolation fear grips Kosovo Serbs 07/29/09 KV: Kosovo and Systematic Persecution by KLA 07/25/09 RU: Skypes a threat to …
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