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Pakistan condemns US drone use in north-west , Josephine Whitaker

The Pakistani government has publicly condemned the United States’ use of unmanned drones in its north-western provinces, after an attack in North Waziristan killed four people today, highlighting the difficult relationship between the two...

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Sergei Magnitsky: a death that failed to die, Oliver Carroll

On November 16, 2009, lawyer Sergei Magnitsky died while awaiting trial in a Moscow prison. Exactly how he died is unclear, but it seems that he suffered a toxic shock reaction following internal organ rupture. On the day he was to die, Magnitsky...

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The "well groomed" females of Downing Street - how they afford it, Anthony Barnett

For OK readers who don't pick up a free Evening Standard, I can't resist sharing this extract from Anne McElvoy's revealing analysis of the Cameron Downing Street published yesterday. In the light of all the discussion about whether...

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International donors must fund female-controlled HIV prevention gel, Chi Mgbako

After over twenty years of searching in the scientific wilderness, researchers have developed an effective vaginal microbicide gel that can block HIV transmission. The gel, laced with the antiretroviral drug tenofovir, can cut overall HIV infection...

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It is not all about Lula any more, Conor Foley

The ‘magic’ of Brazil’s popular President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, failed to secure his protégé candidate, Dilma Rousseff, a first term victory in this week’s presidential elections, which will now go to a run-off ballot at the end of...

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Gender, knowledge and change: questions and answers, Shelley Anderson

A good question is worth its weight in answers. Good questions provide a framework to explore issues. Good questions determine answers.

There have been many good questions posed in the Religion Gender Politics debate on openDemocracy. These include...

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Celebrating the fanatically normal, Maciej Zaremba and Tony Curzon Price

The rise of the Sweden Democrats is partly about a nostalgic, patriotic right feeling the absence of a voice as the moderate right embraced markets and globalisation with the simultaneous abandonment of anti-EU stances by the Greens. This double...

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The AfPak endgame , Paul Rogers

The problems for the United States and its allies in Afghanistan, both military and political, continue to mount. The expansion of military operations into Pakistan is also having a blowback effect which, proclaimed tactical successes...

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