Archive for Marzec, 2008

Uganda: Rare gorilla twins born

niedziela, Marzec 30th, 2008

Rare mountain gorilla twins have been born in Uganda’s Bwindi Forest, home to around half the world’s population of the endangered primates, a wildlife official said on Wednesday.

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Canada’s inaction in the case of Omar Khadr puzzling, embarrassing

piątek, Marzec 21st, 2008

The reasons against trying Omar Khadr before a military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay keep piling up, yet the Canadian government continues to refuse to do anything about it.

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UK sets up force for failing states in wake of Iraq

środa, Marzec 19th, 2008

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced plans on Wednesday for a civilian rapid reaction force that would come to the aid of fragile or failing states, saying he had learned lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan.

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The Apprentice’s Nick Hewer in African aid trip

poniedziałek, Marzec 17th, 2008

Nick Hewer of The Apprentice on his African adventure As Sir Alan Sugar’s adviser, Nick Hewer has become a viewers’ favourite on TV phenomenon The Apprentice.

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From Auschwitz to the killing fields

sobota, Marzec 15th, 2008

If it happened just once, you might sort of understand. You could blame it on some vile anomaly — a sad, unlikely convergence of time, place, personality and/or politics that explodes into a killing frenzy.

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Obama’s foreign adviser was Ignatieff’s Harvard ’soulmate’

czwartek, Marzec 6th, 2008

Samantha Power, a Harvard University professor, had no idea who Senator Barack Obama was when his office called in 2005 looking for an appointment to discuss her 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning book on genocide.

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Wake up, world: A new genocide looms

środa, Marzec 5th, 2008

Agreement brokered by international community must be monitored if horrors of Darfur are to be prevented from swelling into a far bloodier conflict, writes Nicholas D Kristof Mar 5, 2008 12:00 AM By unknown LIMITED SCOPE OF HOPE: A villager in Darfur, Sudan, a region that has been devastated by conflict – but the focus on the atrocities committed …

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George Jonas a The duties of empire

poniedziałek, Marzec 3rd, 2008

Why are western military coalitions participating in the civil wars of the Hindu Kush and the Balkans? A partial answer: Entropy.

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