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The decisions taken by the United States and Israel over the next four months will influence events in the middle east for the next four years and beyond, says Paul Rogers
A Conservative politician's campaign for civil liberties offers democrats a historic opportunity
Cross-straits flights mark a new phase in a tense relationship (archive)
A series of votes on regional autonomy tests Bolivians' capacity to live together
A porous border in Russia's deep south becomes a channel of war and torture
A "citizen media" summit highlights the potential and danger of activist blogging under dictatorship
The death of a co-founder and the freeing of hostages mean crisis for the FARC movement (archive)
Drought, thirst, and land-hunger...a parched earth equals global environmental danger
The formation of a new government offers modest hope of progress in the path to Europe
Robert Mugabe’s coronation is the time to start preparing in detail for the aftermath of his regime
The Mugabe's regime's violations have created a tipping-point. Now the hard questions start
The Tiananmen protests of 1989 and the turbulent activism of 2008 share hidden connections 
The Arab Gulf's super-modern business hub is primed to explode. Can it change in time? 
The United States's global detention policy is incubating the insurgents of the future
A rooted conflict and a blocked peace spell stalemate in Sudan and its region
Britain's demise could be opportunity for, rather than threat to, England, and no barrier to the social citizenship the left seeks
A decade's recourse to Europe's human-rights convention offers Moscow troubled lessons
Russia is awash with oil, money, inflation, and corruption. Many are bouyed, but all worry
The old continent was once the model for a new world. No longer. But its elites are in denial
The assaults on Italy's Roma people are driven by politics and prejudice. The remedy is in the roots