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What the world is reading

Tuesday 24 November '09

In this opinion piece, Annie Lowrey sums up the confusion over the new appointments made in the European Union....
Personnel issues

Monday 23 November '09

What does the European Union say about itself through its new president?
Obama’s Burma moment

Saturday 14 November '09

It is time to rethink engagement with the junta...
Diminishing Returns

Saturday 24 October '09

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60 Years of Red China

Tuesday 29 September '09

On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong, speaking from the balcony of Beijing’s crumbling Imperial Palace, declared that a century of turmoil, war and famine was over. As the People’s Republic of China celebrates its 60th anniversary, ALIA ALLANA looks at the major milestones in China’s 60-year-long march....
Podium for mavericks

Monday 28 September '09

Why the UN General Assembly is formatted for spectacle....
The road to Mandalay

Monday 31 August '09

How even the promise of elections is shaking up Burma
The guerrilla’s best friend

Wednesday 15 July '09

What empowers West Africa’s accused war criminals?
CHINA, IN PARTS

Tuesday 14 July '09

While the Han, who make up 90 per cent of China’s population, are traditionally from the eastern parts of the country...
IRAN’S KING MAKERS

Tuesday 23 June '09

The victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over reformist Mir-Hossein Moussavi in the recent Iranian presidential elections has set the country ablaze....
The Axis of Elections

Monday 1 June '09

What three elections in India’s near abroad might mean
The great escape

Wednesday 13 May '09

Roxana Saberi’s release lays bare Iran’s political fragmentation
Fight on land, win on sea

Friday 24 April '09

How Somalian instability is fuelling pirate attacks
Thai tug o’war

Friday 17 April '09

Protesting in Thailand has become a seasonal affair. Demands remain unclear, the outcome shadowed, the damage immense.
New Atlantic Order

Friday 3 April '09

NATO celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. Strasbourg and Kehl, the twin towns of Germany and France — and which the two countries once warred over...
Drugs, gang wars and guns

Friday 27 March '09

Over 2007-2008 the number of gang war related deaths has drastically increased; 2008 saw roughly 7000 dead.
The coming flood of people

Monday 23 March '09

The rising seas will force migration. Where’ll the refugees go?
The criminal paper-eater

Saturday 7 March '09

The indictment of Sudan’s president isn’t entirely useless
Who are the Khmer Rouge?

Wednesday 18 February '09

The Khmer Rouge were guerrillas who formed the Communist Party. Their ideology is based on the ideology of both Marxism and Maoism.
Nowhere to sail

Tuesday 10 February '09

Why Burma’s boat people are dying on the sea....
The World Today | The Afghanistan debacle

Monday 2 February '09

Alia Allana Obama has today asked for an increase in NATO troops in Afghanistan – it may well be the case that this increase might not materialise.
Twilight at Gitmo

Friday 30 January '09

One of the first actions taken by Obama was to issue a 120-day moratorium on all trials in Guantanamo.
Operation over

Friday 16 January '09

Israel’s invasion of Gaza hasn’t worked. What next?
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