AFGHANISTAN: Fighting Reinvigorated Taliban Needs Regional Plan
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Zeina Khodr*AJ/IPS
KABUL, Oct 7 (IPS) – As U.S. military strategists consider whether to send additional troops to Afghanistan, there is little doubt among many Afghans and government officials that the Taliban has resurged with increasing strength and expanded its influence across the country.
Gen Stanley [...]
G20: Rising Above the G8
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Analysis by Sanjay Suri
PITTSBURGH, Sep 25 (IPS) – Something that was perhaps only half-expected has happened in Pittsburgh: the G20 has moved on from being an event to becoming an institution.
And, certainly less expected, it has supplanted the G8 as the prime organisation for [...]
G20: Leaders Agree on Reforms, Poor Still ”Out in the Cold”
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Eli Clifton
PITTSBURGH, Sep 25 (IPS) – World leaders at the two-day G20 Summit in the U.S. city of Pittsburgh agreed to work cooperatively to recover from the global economic crisis and create structural reforms with long-term growth as the goal.
In their end of meeting [...]
Counting the Cost- Climate Change
AlJazeeraEnglish – September 25, 2009
As world leaders gather for the UN General Assembly and G20 summits climate change has been high on the international agenda. In a special programme Counting the Cost looks at the economics of goin…
CHINA-INDIA: NON-GOVERNMENTAL HOSTILITY BEHIND FACADE OF GOVERNMENTAL CORDIALITY
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B.RAMAN
The following are my comments in reply to some questions E-mailed to me by a correspondent of the "Washington Post" in Beijing on August 14,2009:
1) It seems that China has gotten some criticism about the border issue talk recently in India. What do these criticisms focus [...]
INDIA: MIXED SIGNALS FROM CHINA
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B.RAMAN
The 13th round of the talks between the Special Representatives of India and China on the long-pending border dispute was held at New Delhi on August 7 and 8,2009. India was represented by M.K.Narayanan, the National Security Adviser, and China by Dai Bingguio, the State Councillor. It [...]
ROBIN RAPHEL: OLD ANTI-INDIA HAND TO JOIN HOLBROOKE’S TEAM?
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B.RAMAN
The “News”, the Pakistani daily, has reported on August 3,2009, that the Barack Obama Administration has decided to appoint Robin Raphel, who was a Counselor for Political Affairs in the US Embassy in New Delhi from 1991 to 1993 and subsequently became the Assistant Secretary of State [...]
MOROCCO: Western Sahara Drains Development
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By Daan Bauwens
RABAT, Jul 31 (IPS) – Informal talks are being held in Vienna between the different parties involved in the long lasting conflict over the Western Sahara. A new plan proposed by the Obama administration will be discussed between the Polisario and the Kingdom [...]
VISIT OF HILLARY CLINTON TO INDIA
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B.RAMAN
The following comments were recorded by me separately in a group discussion through the Internet on the just-ended visit of Mrs.Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, to India (July 17 to 21,2009):
Whenever US leaders visit India, the issues which figure in private conversations and public [...]
POLITICS: Clinton’s Africa Tour to Stress U.S. Commitments
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By Daniel Volman*
WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (IPS) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left yesterday on a seven-nation trip to Africa that has elicited an appeal from Human Rights Watch for her to put human rights at the top of her agenda. During her eleven-day [...]
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