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Wednesday, 25 Aug, 2010
After the failed Detroit bomb plot last Christmas, Yemen is no longer headline news in Western capitals, but the poorest Arab country is still boiling with social and political turmoil, and armed rebellions. While the war in Afghanistan, the floods in Pakistan, or the withdrawal of US combat troops from Iraq absorb the world’s attention, the Yemen summer, particularly in June and July, has been exceptionally hot and bloody. Even nature has conspired against the poorest Arab country where heav...
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Thursday, 5 Aug, 2010
For decades since its establishment, the Muslim Brotherhood has had an ambivalent position on political participation. While it largely ignored formal politics from the 1920s to the 1970s, it has been increasingly involved in Egyptian politics and has a growing number of representatives in the Egyptian parliament. Yet debates within the organization have centered on how and if political efforts can advance the Brotherhood’s broader agenda in Egypt’s shifting political environment. Calls for...
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Monday, 26 Jul, 2010
A new global survey by the Pew Research Center affiliated with Harvard University shows that President Barack Obama continues to be popular and to improve America’s standing in ...
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Wednesday, 7 Jul, 2010
The Tea Party began to grow and spread across the nation with protest rallies in various states and in Washington, DC in 2009, largely in response to President Barack Obama’s un...
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Monday, 21 Jun, 2010
In March, when the Israeli government defied US President Barack Obama’s peace efforts by announcing it would build Jewish housing blocks in Arab East Jerusalem—with Joe Biden...
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Friday, 11 Jun, 2010
Prince Turki Al Faisal holds no official position in the Saudi government. But as ex-intelligence chief, former ambassador to Washington and London, and the foreign minister's bro...
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Monday, 17 May, 2010
President Barack Obama’s second year in office began with no indication that Arab-Israeli peace would figure prominently on his foreign policy agenda. Declining approval numbers...
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Tuesday, 4 May, 2010
The single greatest surprise of the British general election is that it happens so fast. Britain is home to 61 million people, more than 44 million of them registered to vote. How...
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Wednesday, 28 Apr, 2010
Kandahar: A joint American-Afghan force had just uncovered a weapons cache in a small mud village known for supporting the Taliban. Returning to base, the soldiers dumped two age...
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The recent large-scale arrests top Turkish military officers—including the former heads of the Air Force and Navy—as part of an investigation into an alleged plot to topple th...
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