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DEVELOPMENT: IBSA Summit a "Political Endorsement" for Future Plans
By Tafi Murinzi
JOHANNESBURG - A slew of co-operation agreements emerged from the second IBSA (India, Brazil and South Africa) summit in Pretoria, South Africa, this week.
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TRADE: Possibilities and Pitfalls for India, Brazil and S. Africa
By Paulo Jorge
JOHANNESBURG - Enthusiasm tempered with notes of caution has characterised the IBSA (India, Brazil and South Africa) Business Forum, held in Johannesburg in the run up to the latest heads of state summit of the three countries.
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DEVELOPMENT: India, Brazil, South Africa - the Power of Three
By Paulo Jorge
JOHANNESBURG - Brazil, India and South Africa will intensify their campaign for permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council when their leaders meet in the South African capital, Pretoria, on Oct. 17. President Luiz Inácio da Silva of Brazil, President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will discuss U.N. reforms and other issues of common interest at the second IBSA (India, Brazil, South Africa) summit later this week.
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US-LATIN AMERICA: Next President Must Pursue "Fresh Approach"
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - With Washington's image in Latin America at its lowest ebb in memory, President George W. Bush's successor must pursue a "fresh approach" to the region - one aimed, in particular, at reducing poverty and the yawning gap between rich and poor , according to a new report by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) released here Tuesday.
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ENVIRONMENT: U.S., U.N. Stage Dueling Climate Meets
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - Are the United Nations and the United States trying to outdo each other by hosting two parallel summit meetings on the same subject - climate change - during the same week at the end of September?
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IRAQ: Report Calls on U.N. to End "Complicity of Silence"
By Mithre J. Sandrasagra
UNITED NATIONS - The U.S. Coalition is the principal cause of Iraq's current woes, charges a report released Wednesday by the Global Policy Forum (GPF), a New York-based watchdog group.
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US-IRAN: New War Rhetoric Undercuts Iraq Talks
Analysis by Trita Parsi*
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman's call for cross-border raids into Iran appears to be the culmination of a two-week long campaign by proponents of war to put the military option centre-stage in the U.S. debate over Iran once more.
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POLITICS: Is U.S. Eyeing U.N. as Dumping Ground for Iraq?
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - Faced with an unwinnable five-year war in Iraq, the United States may be looking towards the United Nations to extricate it out of the growing military quagmire, according to diplomats and political analysts.
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POLITICS: U.S. Ramps Up Missile Tests in the Pacific
By John Lasker
COLUMBUS, United States - Earlier this year, when China blasted one of its satellites into thousands of little floating pieces, it was condemned by Washington as a provocative act.
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US/IRAN: Duel for Leverage Fuels Conflict, Not Diplomacy
Analysis by Trita Parsi*
WASHINGTON - As the dispute over Iran's seizure of British sailors continues to twist and turn, what may have been an isolated incident at the outset is quickly developing into yet another move in the geopolitical chess game between the West and Iran.
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POLITICS-US/IRAQ: Fate of Five Detained Iranians Unknown
By Khody Akhavi
WASHINGTON - As the Western media turns its attention to the fate of 15 Britons detained for allegedly trespassing into Iranian waters over the weekend, the status of five Iranian officials captured in a U.S. military raid on a liaison office in northern Iraq on Jan. 11 remains a mystery.
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POLITICS: U.S. Nukes Plan Viewed as Provocative
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - The announcement earlier this month that the United States will pursue the design and construction of new nuclear weapons has not been warmly embraced by the rest of the world.
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POLITICS-US: One CEO's Dissent from War on Terror
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Meet Richard Wade Vague. Tall, friendly, dressed in a dark, finely tailored suit, with a firm, confident handshake and a ready, if surprisingly modest, smile, he looks like the quintessential successful 51-year-old self-described "conservative" corporate executive that he is.
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Q&A: ‘Creating Artificial Glaciers Is Simple, Easy and Replicable’

INDIA: ‘Glacier Man’ Vows to Build More Artificial Glaciers

US-INDIA: State Visit by Singh Could Smooth Bumpy Relations

PERU: Fighting Hunger with Native Crops

RIGHTS-CHAGOS: 'My Navel is Buried There'

GENDER-AFRICA: Some Progress Amidst Continuing Challenges

AFGHANISTAN: Insurgents Infiltrate Security Forces

LEBANON: Migrant Women Dying on the Job

POLITICS: U.N. in Final Push for 2015 Development Goals

CLIMATE CHANGE: Health at Risk

UNITED STATES - OVER OR UNDER THE UN?
By Fredrik S. Heffermehl
However much the Iraqi people need and deserve urgent assistance from the UN, the member organisations cannot permit the United States to wage wars of aggression and leave it to the UN to tidy up when the US gets bogged down, writes Fredrik S. Heffermehl, president of the Norwegian Peace and member of the International Peace Bureau.
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WILL UNILATERALISM DESTROY THE UN?
By Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Closely following world events, I fear that unilateralism may destroy the United Nations, writes Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1991-1995.
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