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Breaking News Headlines Thailand Emergency Rule under Fire
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Two months after Thailand's army routed the anti-government Red Shirt protest movement from central Bangkok, 16 provinces including Bangkok remain under emergency law, as the now-dormant Red Shirt movement goes underground.
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Breaking News Headlines Journalist Abused in Iranian Prison
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Since the crackdown on the Green Movement, reports of prisoner abuse have been common. Abdolreza Tajik, a human rights activist, is the latest victim.
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Breaking News Headlines The Freezing of Afghan Asylum Claims in Australia
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The Australian government announced a freeze on asylum claims from Afghans, despite the fact that human rights organizations unanimously report that Afghan civilians face just as much danger as ever.
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Breaking News Headlines Taiwan: Building Partnerships for Asia-Pacific Economic Integration
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As the global marketplace becomes a more integrated, multipolar arena, Taiwan's is working to develop symbiotic regional trade agreements, improve cross-strait relations and strengthen economic and diplomatic ties to the U.S.
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Breaking News Headlines State-Building Woes of the U.N.
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The original mandate of the United Nations deemed the sovereignty of states more or less inviolable, yet the organization has expanded its scope to, controversially, include peacekeeping and state-building.
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Breaking News Headlines BP's Other Disaster (continued)
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The United States and the United Kingdom have a long history of trying to play puppeteer with Middle Eastern countries in the interest of natural resources, a history that is far from written.
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Breaking News Headlines BP's Other Disaster
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BP is not new to making a mess. Sixty years ago the oil company helped oust Iran's popularly elected government, and the blood and chaos has been spilling in the Middle East ever since.
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Breaking News Headlines Hydro-Politics in the Arab World
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Not unlike the role oil has played, water is going to be increasingly important in determining power-sharing strategies and political alliances in the Middle East.
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Breaking News Headlines An Unbreakable Bond?
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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is heading to the U.S. to meet President Obama next week, with the pair expected to discuss the series of rocky moments that have dogged their special relationship.
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Breaking News Headlines Tensions Remain despite Pledge to Ease Gaza Blockade
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Despite Israel's announcement that it will ease its blockade, forces inside and outside Gaza remain in a volatile tug of war.
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Breaking News Headlines Albania, Europe's Problematic Child
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A year after general elections, Albania's political parties are still fighting over the legitimacy of the results. Meanwhile the country's unemployment is sky high and it's no closer to E.U. accession.
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Breaking News Headlines Political Islam and Kemalist laicism: New Tango on Turkey's Old Battlefield
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Turkey has been engaged in an ongoing struggle to balance its pro-Islam and secular parties for a long time, a battle that might only be won by coming to a compromise.
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Breaking News Headlines Haggling over the Former Moldavian SSR Dispute
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Russian President Medvedev and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych issued a joint declaration on the Transnistria conflict, with Moldova and Transnistria caught quite literally in between.
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Breaking News Headlines Kyrgyzstan: the Road Not Taken
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In the wake of political unrest in Kyrgyzstan, thousands of Uzbek nationals have been the victims of violence within Kyrgyzstan. A third-party "peace army" could help turn the situation around.
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Breaking News Headlines Gas Revenues Fund Burma Nuke Program
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While its people remain among the poorest in the world, a new report shows that Burma's military junta is siphoning oil and gas revenues to fund a secret nuclear weapons program.
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