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Imagine an alternate universe -- a foreign military power begins flying remote-controlled warplanes over your town, using on-board missiles to kill hundreds of your innocent neighbors.
How would you and your fellow citizens respond?
Science is helping to bring a former Argentine dictator to justice with expertise that will haunt perpetrators of state violence.
Elections are supposed to be an opportunity for the people to express the direction in which they want the country to travel. By that standard, this result is an insult.
It took three years to execute the colossal task of changing currencies into Euros. The Euro is essential, and the current decision reinforces the European common currency.
As we crawled eastward from Peru to Brazil, Kenya to India, Thailand to Bali--and beyond--we observed life through our own critical lenses, views no longer shaped by the news media back home, Hollywood or even a optimistic vision of how we'd hoped the world might turn out to be.
This week, British politics has undergone one of the more momentous changes in history. I don't think we've even begun to appreciate the scale of what has happened.
The PLO has succeeded in obtaining European support for a unilateral Palestinian declaration of statehood. The only obstacle remaining to Palestinian leaders are the Americans.
Simple call options and futures instruments are well proven in large-scale commodity exchanges. The WFP can use these instruments to counter the effects of high and volatile food prices.
One important aspect of the use of these websites is that they enable the Taliban and other extremist groups to recruit youth in European, Arab countries as well as the United States.
What is clear is that Susan Rice hasn't found her voice at the UN even though she has been in the job for over a year. It seems hard to take her seriously.
Brits didn't exactly flock to the polls in record numbers for last Thursday's election, but after the results left us in limbo for five days we've been refreshing Twitter and news feeds like it's going out of style.
Ridley Scott's Robin Hood opened the Golden Lion awards at Cannes. But this year's golden coffin will go to Alain Minc, the spin doctor who advises French president Nicholas Sarkozy.
Preachy rhetoric about free markets and globalization often overlooks the on-the-ground work that is needed to actually make markets work. Imaginary markets have failed the poor.
If a Jewish state were run by the secret police, there were be gag orders forbidding journalists to write even of the existence of the gag orders...Time to grab a cup of coffee and leaf through the gag orders.
I firmly believe that school meals are the most important form of assistance that the United States can give in Kenya and other parts of the world. The children can bring a better future.
The economic problems affecting the EU -- sovereign debt; the decline of the euro; financial contagion -- go beyond, well, economics, and could have a major impact on global politics, including on U.S. foreign policy
Although Russia differs with the US and Israel over its policy towards Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas, its objective is still to establish regional stability.
It is easy to see why everyone wants a little piece of Desmond Tutu. His immense humanity and irrepressible good humor are infectious.
In Kibera, Kenya, the government clinic gets a shipment of water purification tablets every three or four months. In a week or two the tablets are gone.
