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MAINLAND Greeks have been flocking to Cyprus in search of work as their country's economic crisis has worsened, but unemployment is soaring on the once booming island. The Greek embassy in Nicosia says there are 32,000 Greek citizens living in Cyprus and that 1,500 Greek businesses have relocated to the island in the last two years, according to a report in the Famagusta Gazette newspaper.

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COMMENT: The odds on hell breaking loose after any revolution are always high, and in Libya the pressure on NATO to prevent this will be intense. At the moment, Libya is only near "the end of the beginning," not the beginning of the end. The National Transitional Council is mostly made up of former Gaddafi officials - including his justice minister. Who can be certain that they will survive in

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IN April the U.S. State Department issued nine travel warnings against traveling to places like Iraq, Syria and Mexico, and other states have followed suit. (On Syria, both the Americans and British advised citizens to leave the country because of the violent clashes between state forces and demonstrators.) After the killing of Osama bin Laden, a global travel warning was issued.Most travelers

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THE U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem has warned its citizens in the city to avoid the area around the central bus station following an explosion there shortly after 3:00 p.m. local time. It also advised U.S. citizens to exercise "appropriate caution and security awareness" following the bombing.The bomb exploded Wednesday at a crowded bus stop outside the International Convention Center, just

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BRITAIN has advised its citizens not to travel to Bahrain and urged those who are there to leave as soon as they can."We advise against all travel to Bahrain until further notice," the Foreign Office said on its website. "As of the morning of 16 March, our advice to British nationals remains to stay at home until further notice ... we recommend that those without a pressing reason to remain

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AMERICAN efforts to evacuate hundreds of stranded residents from Libya are being held up by bad weather and by the refusal of the embattled Gadaffi government to allow U.S. charter planes to land. Around 285 people have been sitting on the Maria Dolores, a chartered ferry, since Wednesday. The crew is waiting for stormy and rising seas to calm before the ship can sail, probably over the weekend,

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COMMENT: A summary of what's going on where in the Middle East:Bahrain:The revolutionary successes in Tunisia and Egypt has brought new fire to the long-simmering resentment of the Shiite majority against the ruling Sunni and absolutist Al-Khalifa royal family. There have long been demonstrations on the island but protesters are now demanding a new constitution. Bahrain security forces have shown

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ANALYSIS: Finally, on Friday, February 11, 2011, battered by vociferous demands to quit, Hosni Mubarak left Cairo for his vacation home in Sharm al-Sheikh. He left the announcement of his resignation to his deputy, Omar Suleiman, and passed authority to a council of military leaders (significantly, not to Sulieman).The military now faces pressure to deliver a blueprint for this interim period,

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CAIRO - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has at least woken up to the heat and quit. The vice president has named a military council to run the country's affairs while the demonstrators wildly celebrate in the streets. It is, as Churchill put it, only the end of the beginning. ANALYSIS: That noise you hear is the sound of psychological barriers crashing down all across the Middle East. In Jordan

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ANALYSIS: A Sky news commentator today (February 10) suggested that President Barack Obama should listen to Sky rather than his notoriously incompetent CIA, to work out what is going on in Egypt. Obama, having been wrongly informed today (yet again) by CIA director Leon Panetta that Mubarak would step down, could also listen to us - because we've been telling our clients, he won't go.Hosni

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CAIRO - "Mubarak, Mubarak, your plane awaits" was the cry echoing through the crowds in Tahrir Square as the aging dictator of Egypt clung tenaciously to power, albeit with a grip that grows weaker by the hour. On Sunday morning, the city seemed firmly in the hands of the demonstrators. The hated security police have all but vanished from the streets, only to re-emerge in rumors and accusations

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LONDON - The British Foreign Office, in common with many other Western states, advises against all but essential travel to Tunisia. It says looting and violence has continued overnight (17-18 January) with clashes between the military and groups loyal to the deposed ex-president. Large-scale demonstrations, some violent, and further looting are still possible in multiple locations across the

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PARIS, France - The risk of a terrorist attack against France is "real," the interior minister, Brice Hortefeux, says.Osama bin Laden's threats to kill French nationals "would fit into the pattern of different threats that have already been made against our country and our citizens," the minister said, and he added that "French vigilance is complete."In recent weeks, French officials have warned

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TABA, Egypt - Security forces have expanded their deployment in the northern Sinai in a manhunt for a Hamas terrorist squad. The group sneaked out of Gaza on a mission to fire rockets into Israel from Sinai.Egypt's efforts are hampered by support for the Hamas militants from the local population of Palestinians and disgruntled Bedouin tribes.Meanwhile, the U.S. Embassy in Jordan defended its

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JULY 12 - OFFICIAL travel warnings about drug cartels and violence are shutting down traditional summer study trips to Mexico by foreign, mainly American, students. Kansas University is the latest to cancel such a trip - 18 students who planned to study in Puebla have been told to stay at home.The U.S. State Department travel advisory is for all of Mexico but cites in particular extreme violence

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JUNE 12 - The United States has issued a travel advisory warning its citizens to avoid parts of Nigeria, including the Niger Delta, which has seen much violence and many kidnappings over recent years by militant groups.Authorities in Rivers State have responded to the travel advisory by sharply increasing security, with governor meeting for several hours with the police commissioner and top

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May 25 - AT least 27 people, almost all civilians, have died in gun battles in Jamaica as the hunt continues for a suspected drug lord. Troops and police had stormed the stronghold of Christopher "Dudus" Coke in the Tivoli Gardens district of the capital Kingston.A state of emergency has been in place in parts of Kingston since Friday, when several police stations were attacked. A decision to

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Thomas O'Dwyer, 26 March 2010THE Hebrew legend of the confrontation between a young Israelite (David) and a Philistine warrior (Goliath) is deeply woven into the national psyche of modern Israel. Indeed, it is often cited as a metaphor for the country's survival since 1948. In recent weeks the analogy would appear to have been turned on its head.For if the target of the Biblical David was a

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NEW YORK - STANDARD & POOR’S have issued a report stating: " We no longer classify the United Kingdom among the most stable and low-risk banking systems globally." American Banking News comments, "That’s a nice way of saying the British banking system sucks."The report, titled "Banking Industry Country Risk Assessment: United Kingdom," says that the basis of the problem is an extremely poor

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COLOMBO - ELECTION-related violence threatens to disrupt Sri Lanka's first poll since the defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels after decades of war. On Jan. 22, the main opposition group blamed incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa's supporters for an attack on the house of Tiran Alles, a businessman and a close aide to the main opposition presidential candidate, former army chief Sarath Fonseka. No

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JERUSALEM - TURKEY'S joint annual aerial exercises, codenamed "Anatolian Eagle" has been postponed after Ankara excluded Israel from taking part, military sources in Israel and Turkey say."The exercise Anatolian Eagle which was planned to take place in Turkey from October 12 to 23 has been postponed until further notice," the Israeli military said in a statement."The exercise has been postponed

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AMERICANS retain confidence that the Obama White House and administration will do what is right for the economy. However, the level confidence has been on a downward trend over the past few months, according to the latest Harris Poll. COMMENT: More than half of Americans (53 percent) polled in August are confident that the White House will produce policies to help fix the economic crisis, and

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OMID Habibinia, an Iranian journalist living in Switzerland, reports on his Twitter feed that he is hearing from sources in Tehran that more clashes were taking place on Thursday (June 25), as opposition supporters attempt to rally. Habibinia writes, inter alia: Anti-Riot Police get position in Vali Asr Cr and Enghelab St. Clashes at Enghalb Sq. 16 minutes ago Reports: More than 1000 ppl

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LEBANESE security forces fired tear gas and water cannons at dozens of angry demonstrators who protested near the US embassy over Israel's war on the Gaza Strip.Lebanese and Palestinian leftists of various political groups broke through barbed wire down the street from the embassy and neared the next barricade to the mission compound in Awkar, just north of Beirut. Several demonstrators, who were

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A WELL planned and executed terrorist attack on Mumbai (formerly Bombay) has virtually locked down the financial and entertainment capital of India. Gunmen began an assault on various locations around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, armed with AK-47s and grenades, among other weapons. Initial media estimates put the death toll at more than 100, with 250 or more injured.The terrorists were attempting to

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AROUND a dozen states have issued travel warnings and their airlines have canceled flights to Thailand after protestors stormed Bangkok and other airports today, stranding thousands of travelers and dealing a blow to the country's tourism industry during the peak season.With the unrest paralyzing the airport, which handles 40 million passengers a year, and TV networks broadcasting the chaos

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CHINESE officials have been issuing a flurry of victory claims against Islamic terrorist groups, as part of a crackdown on those it accuses of targeting next month's Olympic Games. Police in the Muslim Xinjiang region claim to have demolished a dozen terror cells linked to foreign-based organizations, so far this year. The latest report didn't say how many people had been detained, but described

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WEST African leaders appealed for calm in Guinea, saying a five-day army mutiny over unpaid back-pay had the potential to destabilize neighboring states struggling to put an era of wars and conflict behind them. Tensions did begin to ease, however, as soldiers began receiving some back pay - the issue which sparked the mutiny and left at least three dead and dozens injured. COMMENT: Nightly

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LEBANESE politicians prepared for negotiations to ease the conflict between the country's pro- Western government and the Shi'ite Hezbollah militia which seized control of Beirut last week. Driven by the worst violence since the civil war, Lebanese leaders boarded separate flights to Doha amid deepening political and communal crises.Frustrated by 18 months on the political sidelines, Hezbollah

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EXPLOSIONS rocked a housing complex used by foreigners in San'a on Sunday evening. It shattered windows but there were no reports of injuries. Security sources said the explosions were probably mortar or rocket rounds fired at the compound in the upscale Hadda neighborhood. Two rounds exploded inside the compound and another blew up outside the building/After the attack, Westerners were seen

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GREEK and Turkish Cypriots on Thursday pulled down barriers across a central street in Nicosia, the world's last remaining divided capital. The reopening of Ledra Street, cut in two for half a century, was a powerful symbol of Cyprus's ethnic partition and a nascent desire for reunification.The two communities are preparing talks to end the Mediterranean island's division, an obstacle to

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PRESIDENTIAL elections in Serbia have set up a dramatic runoff for February 3 that could shape the country's future for decades. A radical pro-Russia nationalist whose mentor is at The Hague for war crimes will face off against a pro-European Union moderate who advocates trade, reconciliation, and even NATO status.Serbian Radical Party chief Tomislav Nikolic and President Boris Tadic faced an

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WIDESPREAD violence that has affected parts of Kenya, including Nairobi and the cities of Eldoret, Kisumu and Mombasa, since President Kibaki was declared the winner of the December 27 election, has largely subsided.However, isolated incidents of violence, particularly in the western provinces, continue to occur across the country.

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A CAR BOMB, consisting of 20 kg of TNT, this morning targeted a U.S. Embassy vehicle as it traveled along a coastal road in north Beirut, near the predominately Christian neighborhood of Dora-Karantina. The blast killed at least three Lebanese bystanders and wounded more than 20 other people.

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KOSOVO Serbs scuffled with NATO peace keepers in the western village of Gorazdevac last weekend amid growing fears for their future as the breakaway province of Serbia edges toward independence. The protests were minor but raised again the specter of a new round of Balkan violence.An international group of mediators has failed to help Serbia and Kosovo reach an agreement over its status,

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THIS WEEK will prove decisive in Lebanon with parliament due to elect a new president as the country risks sliding into a chaotic political vacuum. The president is drawn from the Maronite Christian community.President Emile Lahoud left office at the end of his term on Friday after parliament failed to elect his successor amid continued deadlock between the Western-backed government and the

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AN ALARMED International Maritime Bureau is urging urged Malaysian authorities to act swiftly against a new spate of pirate attacks in the Malacca Strait after 10 heavily armed pirates boarded a ship and seized the master and engineer last week.The attack is the third in the waterway this year, but the first time since July 2005 that crew members have been kidnapped.The gunmen left six other crew

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LEBANON’S fragile stability was jolted on August 5th by a hotly contested parliamentary election in an important Christian district, where a little-known opposition candidate claimed victory. It will be a blow to Lebanon’s governing Western-backed coalition, which has been engaged in an intense power struggle with an alliance of opponents for months.Hassan Sabei, the interior minister, declared

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The respected French-based international business and economic intelligence periodical Intelligence Online carries a profile of the advisory board of GlobalSource LLC in its latest edition. In the article: WASHINGTON - GlobalSource, the company founded by former ArmorGroup executives, has appointed an advisory board on which intelligence specialists rub shoulders with former private sector

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BRITISH and other European governments are formally warning against travel to Lebanon as the Lebanese Army continued to shell Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp north of Tripoli. The army is battling a shadowy Islamic faction known as Fatah al-Islam.The British Foreign Office warning states: "We advise against all but essential travel to Lebanon, due to the ... political instability ... We

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Security officials from Europe's largest countries on May 12 backed a plan to profile mosques and identify radical Islamic clerics who promote terrorism, EU Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Franco Frattini told a news conference.The project, to be finished by autumn, will focus on the roles of imams, their training, their ability to speak in the local language and their sources of funding.

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ISLAMIC extremists and al-Qaida are using the anonymity of the Internet to recruit and train terrorists, according to a new report."In short, cyberspace is now a battlefield, and the 'war' is one of ideas," said the report, which was written by government, academic and industry experts at George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute. The report is the first of its kind from

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The Winograd Report issued on April 30 dissects Israel's military and political failings in the Lebanon "summer war" of 2006. It also leaves the country's leaders with only one option. The prestigious international affairs magazine openDemocracy led its front page with the analysis by a GlobalSource expert of the devastating interim report of Judge Eliyahu Winograd's official commission.Read it

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Saudi Arabia said on Apr. 27 it had arrested more than 170 people, including trainee pilots, from seven armed terrorist cells plotting to use airliners and suicide bombers to attack oil facilities, military bases, and public figures. "Some had begun training on the use of weapons, and some were sent to other countries to study aviation in preparation to use them to carry out terrorist operations,

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North Waziristan, BBC News, - As the spring sets in Taliban fighters in Pakistan's tribal region of Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan, are increasingly visible.This bodes ill for the coalition forces in Afghanistan.But it also highlights problems for Pakistan's government. It is faced with the prospect of the Taliban and their allies trying to consolidate their expansion eastwards inside North

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Iranian naval vessels seized 15 British sailors and marines who had boarded a merchant ship in Iraqi waters of the Persian Gulf, on Friday, March 23rd .Britain strongly protested the detentions, which come at a time of high tension between the West and Iran.The U.S. Navy, which operates off the Iraqi coast along with British forces, said the sailors appeared unharmed and that Iran's Revolutionary

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A suicide bomber killed three people Sunday in Eilat, Israel on Jan. 29th, the first such attack in Israel in a year and the first ever in this Red Sea holiday resort.The attack on a bakery highlights the potential of the threat that Israel always faces from Palestinian terror organizations trying to infiltrate the unfenced border with Egypt."I am concerned that this is just the beginning and the

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Turkish security officials in raids in multiple cities on Jan. 29th arrested around 50 terror suspects believed to be al-Qaida members. The raids took place simultaneously in Konya, Istanbul, Izmir, Kocaeli and Mardin.The suspects had been under surveillance for the past 18 months; there was no word about concrete plans to plot a terror attacks.COMMENT: Security experts don't expect the arrests

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A group of U.S. senators was briefed this weekend on a Jan. 12 rocket attack on the American embassy in Athens, and thanked the government for its response.No one was hurt in the attack claimed by a far-left Greek militant group.COMMENT: The Revolutionary Struggle group fired a rocket propelled grenade at the embassy and damaged a restroom on the third floor of the building."When we're attacked,

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Pakistani investigators are trying to establish the identity of a suicide bomber who attacked the luxury Marriott Hotel in the capital and suspect Islamist militants were behind the blast.The lone attacker, who appeared to be in his twenties, detonated explosives strapped to his body on Friday as he tried to sneak into the Marriott in Islamabad, killing himself, a security guard and wounding

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An American gunship attacked suspected al-Qaida targets in southern Somalia, a senior Pentagon official said Monday.The AC-130 flew operation was launched based on intelligence that al-Qaida operatives were at the location, but there was no immediate indication of how successful the strike had been.The official said the al-Qaida operatives had fled south late last month from Somalia's capital,

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COMMENT: For Nigeria, this new year of 2007 offers a new chance to right its political profile. Country Risk analysts say the country could end its dismal forty years of failure to transfer to real democracy.The analysts are basing their cautious asessments on the 2007 elections that could bring about the first civilian to civilian handover of government in its history. That would mean democracy

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VIOLENCE between rival Palestinian factions flared again in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 5 when gunmen of the ruling Islamist Hamas shot dead a member of the secular Fatah movement. In another incident, masked Fatah gunmen shot and wounded a Hamas member in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip.COMMENT: Following the intra-Palestinian riots and clashes and the possibility of further Israeli

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LEBANESE Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, a key member of the anti-Syrian majority in parliament, has been shot dead in Beirut. Gemayel was a member of the Christian Phalange party. His father and grandfather were past presidents of Lebanon.Saad Hariri, whose father, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, was assassinated in 2005, immediately blamed Syria, saying, "the hands of Syria are all over

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AN AIR India flight to Dubai was diverted on Wednesday Sept. 13th to a military air base on unspecified "security and safety" concerns, but no further details were immediately available. Our sources describe the diversion as "precautionary and low intensity" but don't know what caused it. "As a precautionary measure the aircraft, the passengers and the luggage have been searched to verify safety,

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AS Israel's war machine continues to wreak its grim punishment on Lebanon after the crisis that exploded on 12 July, two questions most puzzle middle-east watchers in the country. First, did Hizbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah anticipate the large-scale consequences of the movement's cross-border operation against Israel – or did he simply miscalculate? Second, did Israel have a contingency

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NO serious analysts ever expected much from Bashar Assad of Syria, despite peceptions that his Western education, English accent and socialite wife made him a new breed of Middle East leader. They were right.Assad has at last reverted to type, abandoned empty promises of reforms, and started cracking down on dissidents, just like the bad old days. This is the worst wave of oppression in Syria in

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UNITED NATIONS chief investigator Serge Brammertz was to interview Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus Sunday as his investigation into the murder of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri continues. Brammertz, a Belgian prosecutor, took over the probe in January and will question Assad and Vice President Farouk Sharaa about suspected Syrian involvement in the Hariri killing.COMMENT

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SAUDI ARABIAN forces today intercepted the first direct terrorist suicide assault on its oil production facilities. Guards in the eastern oil town of Abqaiq opened fire on at least two cars carrying explosives as they tried to ram the gates of the oil production center.Security sources say at least two cars, bearing logos of the state oil company Aramco and packed with explosives tried to ram the

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Many Latin American countries tried to beat back raging inflation and spark economic prosperity by signing on to free-market principles promoted by Washington in the 1990s. But they have grown unhappy with the results and opted for an about face - meaning a return to populist left-wing policies of the past. But despite the rhetoric, many leaders may still be committed to democracy and market

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DOES Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "mean what he says" in his extremist outbursts and in his defiance of the United Nations? Or is this fodder for domestic consumption while he crafts more pragmatic policies. The question is one that has frequently been asked of other dictators and demagogues, say our diplomatic sources, and they have often been given the benefit of the doubt until too

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IRAN is removing 40 ambassadors and senior diplomats from their posts, particularly those who favor closer ties with the West. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told parliament the missions would expire by the end of the [Iranian] year. (March 20th). Those "expiring" will include the London ambassador, Mohammad Hossein Adeli, a senior career diplomat and a skilled negotiator with the European

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Every country is a risk, for some reason.It's the degree that varies. That's where we at GlobalSource come in.

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