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The Taliban are circulating a 13-chapter code of conduct for their fighters in Afghanistan, requiring them to avoid harming civilians and members of the country’s fragile government. What is involved in this Islam-based code of military conduct?
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The first official, direct dialogue between China and Taiwan took place yesterday in the shadows of the US-China summit, which perhaps purposefully drew much more media attention. Sixty years after civil war between the nationalists who escaped to the island and the communists who took over the mainland, their leaders urged lasting peace in a stunningly strategic diplomatic maneuver…
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The precarious peace between Sudan’s government-controlled north backed by Arab tribes and the semi-autonomous south controlled by rebel Black tribes overcame a major challenge yesterday when oil-rich lands between them were divided equitably according to each…
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Below the media’s military radar now constrantly scanning two major warzones, Iraq and Afghanistan, and several other ongoing hotspots ranging from Iran to North Korea, the U.S.’ military buildup in Columbia is for the most part going unnoticed….
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The Non-Aligned Movement of over 115 nations was once a historically unique and periodically powerful vehicle in which the weakest and poorest could stand up to the superpowers, then the US and USSR, and their ideological clubs. Their two-day summit in Egypt wrapping up makes clear not only that the non-aligned need to realign themselves vis-à-vis each other and the post-Cold War world. Above all, the summit’s important if limited outcomes showed why they should and how the world would benefit…
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After months of heavy lobbying by socially minded ultra-nationalists, the Malaysian state government has legislated a ban of the English language in sectors of higher education. This bold move against multilingualism in a country that was once a British colony has…
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Members of the G5 (Mexico, Brazil, China, India and South Africa ) are making their differences with the G8 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the US) clearer at their summit in Italy than ever before. However…
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Rather than Chinese government crackdown deaths, those in Urumqi today were mostly by rioters against their targets, with their respective and deep-seated identities as the ultimate causes. The roots of the Chinese riots defy the easy categorizations upon which most media outlets depend in crafting ‘breaking news’ stories and weaving them into a series meant to attract your mouse clicks. Here is the gist and background of the situation as it is still unfolding…
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This is not science fiction: an ant megacolony originally from Argentina has spread (with human help) around the globe, making it the most widespread species on earth after ours. One evolutionary advantage they have over us is that they will not harm one of their own, no matter where they’re from…
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