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BY: Nico Hines | The London Times
Tehran has sent a letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna confessing that they have concealed the existence of the nuclear facility, which has been under American surveillance for years.
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BY: Jason Overdorf | Global Post
Simmering for nearly a decade, India's low-level war against communist revolutionaries has been fought mostly under the radar, since the battleground lies in the remote jungles of some of the country's least developed states -- like Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Orissa.
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BY: Edmund L. Andrews | The New York Times
President Obama will announce Friday that the once elite club of rich industrial nations known as the Group of 7 will be permanently replaced as a global forum for economic policy by the much broader Group of 20 that includes China, Brazil, India and other fast-growing developing countries, administration officials said Thursday.
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BY: Mitchell Prothero | The National
The incoming Lebanese prime minister, Saad Hariri, yesterday began a second attempt to form a national unity cabinet after seeing his chances bolstered by an unexpected meeting between regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Syria.
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BY: Rachelle Kliger | The Media Line
A leading Egyptian opposition movement is planning to take the president’s son to court, questioning the sources of his wealth and the legality of his current official positions.
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BY: Sayed Karim | The National
There will be no peace in Afghanistan until the government strikes deals with senior insurgent leaders, say members of one of the country’s biggest political movements.
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BY: Jeffrey Gettleman | The New York Times
Somali Web site is claiming that one of the suicide bombers who attacked an African Union base last week in Somalia was from the United States, which, if true, would make him the second known American to carry out a suicide attack.
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BY: Colin Woodward | The Christian Science Monitor
When neighboring Hungary joined the joint European customs union in 2007, erasing the joint frontier, authorities in Austria moved to block the roads.
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BY: Manfred Ertel, Hans-Jürgen Schlamp and Stefan Simons | Der Spiegel
Europe's social democratic parties are in the deepest crisis of their history as conservative parties co-opt their principles and far-left parties steal their traditional supporters. The glory days of Tony Blair and Gerhard Schröder's "third way" seem like the distant past.
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BY: Emrullah Uslu | Eurasia Daily Monitor
As Turkey has recently concentrated on the debate over whether the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) Kurdish initiative to end the long running campaign of violence, the two key actors in the conflict, the Turkish military and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have entered the debate.
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BY: Andrew E. Kramer | The New York Times
This December, high-speed trains designed by the German conglomerate and adapted for Russian winters will ply the rails between St. Petersburg and Moscow. But Siemens hopes their final destination will be the last laggard of the high-speed age: the United States.
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BY: Joanna Lillis | Eurasianet
Kazakhstan is buzzing with speculation in the wake of a proposal floated earlier in September to make Nursultan Nazarbayev president for life. The timing of the suggestion is just a little awkward for Astana, given that Kazakhstan will soon take over the chair of Europe’s leading democratization group -- the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
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The Washington Post
The Burmese government has been trying to unify the country since it gained independence from Britain in 1948, a crusade that has taken precedence over all other concerns, including democracy, and is still the driving force behind the current government led by Senior Gen. Than Shwe.
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BY: Bart Beeson and Annalise Romoser | World Politics Review
Most of the internally displaced people (IDPs) have been living in the camps since May, when they fled the intense fighting that marked the final battle between government forces and the insurgent group known as the Tamil Tigers. Publicly, the Sri Lankan government has committed to returning IDPs to their homes by November of this year, and several thousand people have been released from camps to live with relatives.
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BY: Andrew Jacobs | The New York Times
He enjoys generous helpings of red braised pork, collects Chinese fans and keeps an unapologetically patriotic blog. Now Mao Xinyu, the 39-year-old grandson and only surviving male heir of Mao, appears to have become the youngest major general in the People’s Liberation Army, according to the state media.
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BY: Karen DeYoung and Pamela Constable | The Washington Post
A new wave of anti-American sentiment in Pakistan has slowed the arrival of hundreds of U.S. civilian and military officials charged with implementing assistance programs, undermined cooperation in the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban, and put American lives at risk, according to officials from both countries.
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BY: John M. Glionna | Los Angeles Times
A magazine based in Japan offers an intimate look inside North Korea. Its reporters are North Korean farmers and factory workers who risk their lives to portray life inside their reclusive homeland.
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BY: Andrew Buncombe | The Independent
The US is set to engage directly with Burma's military rulers in an effort to push for democratic reforms while maintaining sanctions – a move that has the support of the imprisoned opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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BY: Nathaniel Foote | Diplomatic Courier
In the wake of a U.S.-Colombian military deal, Hugo Chavez has raised the stakes with a large arms deal and the announcement of a nuclear program.
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BY: Simon Roughneen | ISN Security Watch
Rapid technological developments are changing how wars are fought, but as Predator drones and ground robots are supplemented by bigger, better and deadlier upgrades, moral and ethical implications will need to be assessed.