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(Reuters) FACTBOX: Themes And Scenarios For G8 Summit In Italy
The talks are expected to focus on the state of the world economy, […]

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Who killed Neda? Not us, Iran claims
(National Post Comment) … according to Iran’s Press […]

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(HuffPost) Gordon Brown: When UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon meets the military dictatorship in Burma today he will have the whole world with him. His mission, to persuade the junta to release all political prisoners and engage with democracy, is critical to the future of the Burmese people. But it is […]

China to allow renminbi trade payments
(FT) Beijing moves towards reducing reliance on the US dollar with new rules that will enable importers and exporters to settle their payments to select Chinese companies in renminbi
11 June
China’s Commodity Buying Spree
HONG KONG — Strong buying by China has helped lift commodity prices around the world […]

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It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the […]

(BBC) Afghanistan country profile ; Pakistan post 2008 elections - Updates
U.S. deploys 4,000 Marines in major Afghan offensive
With the backing of helicopter gunships, nearly 4,000 U.S. Marines and 650 Afghan soldiers launched a ground campaign in the volatile Helmand River valley, where poppy crops provide the Taliban with a significant source […]

China in internet filtering climbdown
(FT) China has agreed to delay implementation of its policy to have all new computers in the country equipped with a controversial internet filtering software, averting the threat that PC makers not complying by Wednesday would face fines.
12 June
Chinese Embassy Responds Regarding Kidnapped Christian Attorney Gao […]

See also Iraq 5 years later ; U.S. Foreign Policy ; Iraq news on Wednesday-Night.com
Bidding war for Iraq’s huge oil contracts sputters into life
(The Independent) Iraq is locked in a struggle with the world’s largest oil companies over contracts that would see “Big Oil” return to the Iraqi oilfields for the first time in almost […]

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The Eclipse of the Americas
How the Trinidad Summit Marked the Fragmentation of the Inter-American System
Richard Feinberg
(Foreign Affairs) With the spirit of an all-inclusive hemispherism in eclipse, the United States will have to shop around or create forums where it can pursue its interests with willing partners — what in the Western […]

For a long time, we resolutely abstained from publishing a page dedicated to Israel because we find it impossible to formulate a definitive opinion on the rights and wrongs of the sixty-year-old question, let alone advocate with conviction a solution to the problem that is at the root of so much of what ails the […]