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  • This Time in Iraq, U.S. Isn't Out Front

    BY: Leila Fadel and Ernesto Londoño | The Washington Post

    As Iraq opens up to foreign investment, China and other countries are expanding foothold beyond Iraq's oil reserves to areas such as construction, government services and even tourism.

  • China-Pakistan Deal Raises Fears of Nuclear Proliferation

    BY: Issam Ahmed | The Christian Science Monitor

    China’s plan to build two nuclear reactors in Pakistan has prompted concern about nuclear proliferation. The two nations may aim to counter mutual rival India, which signed a nuclear deal with the US last year.

  • Suicide Bombers Strike Sufi Shrine in Pakistan

    BY: SABRINA TAVERNISE and WAQAR GILLANI | The New York Times

    The death toll rose to 42 on Friday, a day after a devastating attack by militants on a moderate blend of Islam practiced by most Pakistanis.

  • Israel's Foes Adopt New Protest Tactics

    BY: CHARLES LEVINSON | The Wall Street Journal

    Hamas and Hezbollah, groups which have long battled Israel with violent tactics, have begun to embrace civil disobedience, protest marches, lawsuits and boycotts—tactics they once dismissed.

  • Clinton Says NATO's Door Still Open to Ukraine

    BY: Robert Burns | Associated Press

    U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is telling Ukrainian leaders that the door to membership in the NATO alliance remains open.

  • Alleged Spy Claimed Official Was Firm Adviser

    BY: EVAN PEREZ | The Wall Street Journal

    The alleged Russian secret agent who posed as a Canadian entrepreneur claimed a former Clinton administration national security official was an adviser to his company.

  • North Korea Food Crisis Prompts Lifting of Restrictions on Private Markets

    BY: Donald Kirk | The Christian Science Monitor

    To battle the problem of starvation in North Korea, the government is allowing local markets to stay open longer and sell food without restrictions.

  • China Puts Best Face Forward With News Channel

    BY: DAVID BARBOZA | The New York Times

    The government’s official news agency is introducing an English-language, 24-hour news channel that will have a newsroom in Times Square.

  • Bombers Storm U.S. Aid Compound in Afghanistan

    BY: RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. and SHARIFULLAH SAHAK | The New York Times

    The assault, which left four dead, was the latest in a string of Taliban attacks on foreign development workers.

  • Eurozone Unemployment Stabilises at 10%

    BY: Stanley Pignal | Financial Times

    Unemployment fell in the eurozone at the start of the second quarter, reversing a two-year streak of rising joblessness and boosting hopes about the prospects for the bloc’s economic recovery.

  • Italian Journalists Protest Against Silvio Berlusconi's Media Law

    Reuters

    More than 1,000 Italian journalists gathered in Rome yesterday to protest against a law that curbs police wiretaps and imposes fines on news organisations that publish transcripts.

  • Blast Kills 1 at Serb Protest in North Kosovo Town

    BY: Zvezdan Djukanovic | Associated Press

    An explosion tore through a Serb protest in an ethnically divided town of Kosovo on Friday, fatally injuring one man and leaving about 11 others with shrapnel wounds, police and doctors said.

  • Somali President Seen on Front Lines in Fight Against Militants

    BY: Lutfi Sheriff Mohammed and Jeffrey Fleishman | Los Angeles Times

    Riding on a tank and carrying an assault rifle, President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed takes to the battlefield in Mogadishu, reports say. The move is an attempt to raise troops' morale.

  • Rwandan Fugitive Facing Genocide Charges Arrested

    BY: GODFREY OLUKYA | Associated Press

    A Rwandan pastor facing charges of genocide and crimes against humanity has been arrested in Uganda 16 years later, a police spokeswoman said Friday.

  • Protests at Seizure of German-Owned Zimbabwe Farm

    Associated Press

    Germany's government says it will cut off aid to Zimbabwe unless illegal and violent occupiers leave a farm owned by a German national.

  • U.S. Sanctions an Opportunity to Bring Iran Back to the Table

    BY: Cole J. Harvey | World Politics Review

    The U.S. Congress has approved updated Iran sanctions legislation, expanding the scope of existing U.S. sanctions against Iran, and in particular, its petroleum industry. The new legislation could begin to put real pressure on Iran to resume negotiations over its nuclear program.

  • Iran Sanctions: Where We Go From Here

    BY: Stuart E. Eizenstat | The Wall Street Journal

    The overwhelming international support for the new U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran represents one of the most tangible successes of the Obama administration's foreign policy.

  • A Quiet Diplomacy on the Mideast Peace Path

    BY: Martin Indyk | The Washington Post

    If Obama and Netanyahu learn to 'jaw-jaw,' can they achieve peace?

  • The Jordanian Nuclear Bomb

    BY: Abdul Rahman Al-Rashid | Asharq Alawsat

    Yossi Beilin was right when he warned that imposing restrictions on Jordan, in order to appease Israel, will cause this peaceful country to change its political direction.

  • Is China Good for the Americas?

    BY: Eric Farnsworth | Los Angeles Times

    China's emergence as a strong partner in the Western Hemisphere is having far-reaching implications that may be little appreciated or understood.

  • Failure at the G-20

    BY: Tim Fernholz | The American Prospect

    Why Obama's pitch for a coordinated global stimulus flopped.

  • Letter From Tbilisi

    BY: James Kirchick | Foreign Affairs

    Georgia's leaders are caught between a Kremlin bureaucracy that views their country as a lost province and a West that needs Russian cooperation on issues from energy to Iran.

  • Afghanistan and the 'Resource Curse'

    BY: Stephen Haber and Victor Menaldo | The Wall Street Journal

    With its newly discovered mineral wealth, it could end up like Nigeria. Or like Mexico.

  • Myths of Austerity

    BY: Paul Krugman | The New York Times

    Somehow it has become conventional wisdom that now is the time to slash spending, despite the fact that the world’s major economies remain deeply depressed.

  • Mexico Drug Gangs in Deadly Border Gunfight

    Associated Press

    A massive gun battle between rival drug and migrant trafficking gangs near the US border yesterday left 21 people dead and at least six others wounded, prosecutors said.

  • Why Dictators Love the United Nations

    BY: JEFFREY HERBST | Foreign Policy

    In 2007, Zimbabwe was elected to chair the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. "Sustainable" wasn't exactly the first word most people would use to describe the course President Robert Mugabe has charted for his southern African nation.

  • The Threat of a Water War

    BY: Robert I. Rotberg | The Boston Globe

    Washington, Egypt's largest donor, has significant leverage to de-escalate tensions and mediate between the have and have-nots. After all, Washington supports both Egypt and Ethiopia lavishly and militarily. It needs to demand that all sides stand down.

  • Tepid on Terror

    BY: Charles Krauthammer | The Washington Post

    The Obama administration's refusal to identify terrorists reflects a dangerous cowardice.

  • Polish the Whistle

    BY: Tom Devine | The Washington Post

    National security whistleblowers deserve more protection.

  • Last Call at the Rick's Cafe of Kabul

    BY: Ernesto Londoño | The Washington Post

    Expats' longtime haunt is closing, marking the end of an establishment that since the late 1970s has served countless spies and diplomats during decades of war and intrigue.