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Libya’s Release of 6 Prisoners Raises Criticism

July 24, 2007
In 1999, Libya accused five nurses and a physician, based in Benghazi, of deliberately infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus that causes AIDS. Over the next eight years, the health-care providers, five from Bulgaria and one from Palestine, endured imprisonment, three trials and death...

To Save Global Trade Talks, Act on Agriculture

October 7, 2005
The Doha round of trade talks has the potential to significantly reduce global poverty – that is, if the talks are successful. According to the author, the key issue is agriculture. He urges the US and the EU to seriously investigate the propriety of their outsized farming subsidies and high...

Panama Hopes to Sail into “First World” by Enlarging Its Waterway

June 21, 2006
Completed in 1914, the Panama Canal connected the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and is regarded as one of the greatest engineering feats of all time. A proposal by the Panama Canal Authority to create two new “lanes” along the 50-mile canal is touted by Panamanian president Martín Torrijos. The plan...

With Talks Stalemated, Demographics Define Israeli-Palestinian Future

Joseph Chamie
November 8, 2010

Beijing's Closed Politics Hinders "New Diplomacy"

September 12, 2004
In the past year and a half, China has become a key player in several difficult international conflicts, including the North Korean missile threats, the Pakistan-India quarrels, and the war in Iraq. However, argues the author of this Financial Times piece, it should come as no surprise that the...

South Asians Taking Risky Route to Europe: Via Africa

February 26, 2007
The tide of illegal immigrants from West Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands has resumed, yet the ethnicity of recent passengers surprise authorities. South Asians attempting to enter Europe have long taken land passages, but are increasingly becoming customers of the poorly made fishing boats that...

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