It is not often that the words “cocaine” and “al-Qaida” are plausibly linked. But these two forces are turning the western half of the Sahara – approximately from southern Libya to the Atlantic coast - into a locus of illicit money-making... A number of events in March-April 2010 might seem to provide confirming evidence to anyone inclined to think that the Bosnian war, ended or suspended by the Dayton peace accord in 1995, was still underway. The most striking took place on 1 March,... The scandal engulfing the Roman Catholic church as a result of the exposure of widespread and long-lasting sexual abuse of children and young people by priests in a number of countries created a global media and political firestorm around the... The EU accession process could yet be the strongest bond that Turkey has to the west. But Ankara’s other links in that direction seem to be slackening. Turkey’s relations with the United States have improved since Barack Obama replaced George W... Representatives of forty-seven countries, who attended the nuclear security summit in Washington, have agreed to secure all the world's vulnerable nuclear materials within the next four years. At the end of the two-day summit on Tuesday,... WITH the most discredited Parliament in living memory now dissolved, the party manifestos being published and the first televised leaders' debate imminent, the General Election campaign has been well and truly joined by the broadcast and...
The Sahara's new cargo: drugs and radicalism, Stephen Ellis openDemocracy -
The Sahara's new cargo: drugs and radicalism, Stephen Ellis
Serbia’s mixed messages, Eric Gordy
The Catholic church’s scandal: modern crisis, ancient roots , Tina Beattie
Turkey and Europe: a shifting axis , Katinka Barysch
Ambitious goals set at nuclear summit, Rukeyya Khan
But which of our political parties will offer a fair and just settlement for England?, Simon Lee
A cat and mouse game: The National Audit Office and the BBC, David Elstein
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
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