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NEWNATIONS BULLETIN 1ST FEBRUARY 2010


MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE - V - WIDOWS & ORPHANS

January has been significant for confronting the causes of the Financial Crisis. 
A year has gone by and still no agreement! We give our preferences.
Last month we enjoined readers to read our AFGHANISTAN report to see how desperate matters there really are. This month we make the same plea for our report on PAKISTAN, an Islamic nuclear armed-power, suddenly very unstable.
A familiar name has resurfaced in RUSSIAN politics. Tatyana Yeltsin, formerly known as Lady Rasputin, is 'loaded for bear' and back on the political scene.
Progress report on another Slavic woman politician, UKRAINE’s Yulia Tymoshenko.
Google & China - the story continues.
The future of IRAQ's prime minister al Maliki, is looking less assured. We explain his difficulties. IRAN's Ahmedinajad has a different kind of problem.
Our worries for hard-won democracy in TAIWAN, edging towards a China deal.
In LIBYA we tell of Ghadafi seeking to create a United States of Africa - not one might think the best place for a united anything, but the Colonel persists.
NORTH KOREA: Mixed messages at the Years beginning.
TURKEY and EU membership, their number one policy objective.
Balkans: SERBIA, ALBANIA, CROATIA - very different stories.
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