General Electric’s engines power the jets that bomb civilians in Iraq. The company also funds the International Olympic Committee and ...
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Turkey straddles the continents of Europe and Asia, and controls the entrance to the Black Sea, a position that gives ...
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Already a net energy importer, Europe needs more natural gas in the coming decades. The increasingly tense relationship with Russia ...
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We are all affected by the so-called ‘credit crunch’ triggered last year by the bursting of the US housing bubble, ...
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The production of biofuels from agriculture to replace fossil fuels was originally widely applauded, but concerns over the displacement of ...
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There has been widespread dismay over the recent brutal suppression of protesting Buddhist Monks in both Tibet and Burma, with ...
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The world needs a 'good' news media to explain the conflicts, threats and opportunities that globalisation offers. And yet quality ...
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Bruce Kent will talk about his belief that the threat caused by nuclear arms did not disappear with the end ...
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Mark Mackinnon led the foreign press corps in reporting on the Western efforts to undermine Vladimir Putin and the new ...
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Sir Hilary Synnott was Britain's most senior representative in Southern Iraq, trying to keep the region together as the rest ...
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Direct investment in Africa by Asian economies has been increasing sharply in recent years, and unconditional loans and technical cooperation ...
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Political assassinations have a profound effect, changing the course of history – though often not in ways the plotters imagine ...
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The Chavez administration has evolved from an initially moderate position advocating Blair’s model of ‘Third Way Socialism’, to the more ...
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What is the real nature of Hamas? How 'Islamic' are they? What personalities lie beneath the black and green uniforms? ...
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