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Yemen: 1977 vs. 1979

16. März 2010 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Read the World, extension4

The Egyptian state made peace with Israel, but Arab societies never followed.



No hiding place?

16. März 2010 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Read the World, extension3

The fact that no record high happened in the 2000s does not mean that there was no warming over the decade.



A long war of the waters

16. März 2010 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Read the World, extension3

The warships may also deter illegal fishing in Somali waters and the dumping of toxic waste.



International Not-All-Women’s Day

15. März 2010 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Read the World, extension4

Why in 2010 is there such a gap between the rights of women in the West and those in developing nations, especially in the Muslim world?



We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change

14. März 2010 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Read the World, extension3

With the two largest polluters – the United States and China – refusing to act, the world community was paralyzed.



Is It Time to Engage the Taliban?

10. März 2010 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Read the World, extension3

“Should you bargain with the Devil?” – “Not always, but more often than you feel like it.”



Stuck in the mud

9. März 2010 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Read the World, extension3

We are going to feel the results of this war, when the children who are suffering now will be the ones governing Gaza.



Building Haiti’s Economy, One Mango at a Time

4. März 2010 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Read the World, extension3

The Haitians need jobs that they can count on for years ahead.



Fragile Calm Holds in Darfur After Years of Death

4. März 2010 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Read the World, extension4

“It is calm, very calm at the moment, but it remains unpredictable.”



Anxious Ethiopia

4. März 2010 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Read the World, extension2

Most Western governments seem keen to downplay Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s human-rights record.



Is China an Enron?

24. Februar 2010 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Read the World, extension4

If China forces out Google, I’d like to short the Chinese Communist Party.



India Is Threatened by Global Warming

24. Februar 2010 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Read the World, extension3

India’s ability to feed itself is again threatened, this time by global warming.



The books of slaughter and forgetting

24. Februar 2010 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Read the World, extension2

The book bans hint at the identity crisis suffered by the Indonesian political elite.



How did it come to this?

23. Februar 2010 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Read the World, extension4

The man at the top of the International Criminal Court’s most-wanted list is the favourite to be elected president.