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Back to homepageIreland debt crisis: experts to be parachuted in to finalise bailout 0
Post Views: 4 Prospects for an emergency package of help moved a step closer after a day of tense negotiations Jill Treanor and Larry Elliott Ireland’s Brian Lenihan, left, arrives late for the Brussels meeting of finance ministers from the
Read MoreVenice Commission urges Turkey to write ’unifying charter’ 0
Post Views: 5 SERKAN DEM?RTA? STRASBOURG – Turkey’s ruling and opposition parties should work together to redraft the country’s Constitution to ensure it becomes a tool for unification rather than division, according to a senior official of the Venice Commission.“What
Read MoreHaiti cholera protester shot dead by UN peacekeepers 0
Post Views: 5 At least one man has been shot dead in clashes with UN peacekeepers in Haiti, amid a continuing cholera epidemic that has killed more than 900 people. UN troops fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators throwing stones
Read MoreNicaragua and Costa Rica Dredging up votes 0
Post Views: 3 Daniel Ortega and the swamps of opportunism THE mosquito-infested jungle near the mouth of the San Juan river seems of little value. But to Daniel Ortega, who in a year’s time plans to seek a third, unconstitutional,
Read MoreTrying to make the sums add up 0
Post Views: 4 Raúl Castro unveils his plan for an economy of powerful, more efficient state companies and the legalisation of small businesses ON THE rare occasions when Cuba’s political leaders want to signal a change of direction, or even
Read MoreReform in Cuba Raúl the pragmatist 0
Post Views: 9 Bold changes intended to preserve Cuban communism may herald the beginning of its end SHORTLY after he took charge of Cuba from his ailing brother, Fidel, in 2006, Raúl Castro declared that his country’s moribund communist economy
Read MoreThe future of NATO 0
Post Views: 8 Fewer dragons, more snakes NATO is about to adopt a new strategic concept. Can it keep pace with the way the world is changing? It is 11 years since the last such concept was adopted. In that
Read MoreIreland crisis could cause EU collapse, warns president 0
Post Views: 6 Herman Van Rompuy, president of the EU, has warned it faces a ‘survival crisis’, with the risk of contagion spreading from Ireland across the continent Julia Kollewe Herman Van Rompuy said the EU was in ‘a survival
Read MoreGuantánamo Bay detainees to be paid compensation by UK government 0
Post Views: 6 Millions to be paid in compensation for prisoners who alleged UK complicity in torture and extraordinary rendition Patrick Wintour, political editor Former Guantánamo Bay detainees Omar Deghayes, Binyam Mohamed and Martin Mubanga are expected to receive settlements
Read MoreKarzai calls for fewer US raids 0
Post Views: 6 Afghan president appeals for reduction in “problem” night-time operations saying they help turn people to the Taliban. Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has appealed to the United States to reduce the visibilty and intensity of its military
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