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Teran again sees protests and violence

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By Iason Athanasiadis - Nov. 04 (News Report) - Iran’s opposition movement showed it may have staying power Wednesday as thousands of opposition protesters took to the streets alongside a regime-backed demonstration marking the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

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War weary Europeans test their leaders' resolve

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Mort Rosenblum - Oct. 27 (News Analysis) - Whoever ends up presiding over Afghan chaos and corruption, Europe is losing patience fast with U.S. mission muddle and a president who won’t make up his mind. NATO defense ministers meeting last week in Slovakia backed Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s strategy to strike harder, and fast, against a growing insurgency. But opinion polls and remarks in official circles from Britain to Poland (and elsewhere, like, Canada) make clear that Europeans are fed up with Afghanistan if not the whole military business altogether.

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The olive grove wars

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Sara Sorcher - Oct. 22 (Special Report) - The olive branch may be a universal symbol for peace, but in the West Bank, the olive harvest brings a season of unrest between Jewish settlers and Palestinians. It owes much to proximity. Small communities of Israelis

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Nuclear tightrope in Iran

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By William Dowell - Oct. 01 (News Analysis) - The meeting here in Geneva is being billed as the last chance for a diplomatic solution to what many see as Iran’s race to build a nuclear bomb. In diplomacy, it is a good rule never to say “never,” but there is no question that this time there is a lot at stake. Iran's chief negotiator on its nuclear program is meeting with representatives from the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany.

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Al Qaeda's on its way out

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By C.M. Sennott - Sep. 30 (Opinion) - The image of Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old Afghan-born bus driver from Denver and now a terror suspect, embodies the complex truths of where we are right now in the struggle against terrorism.

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G20: The two sides of the global economy

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Thomas Mucha - Sep. 23 (Opinion) - As G20 leaders snake their way to Pittsburgh from all corners, they face very different circumstances from 12 months ago when the possibility of financial and economic catastrophe was all too real.

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The world arrives in the 'city of bridges'

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:50:31 -0700

GlobalPost - Sep. 21 - G20 leaders look to cross troubled waters of the global economy.read more

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South America in an arms race?

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Nadja Drost - Sep. 20 (News Report) - Concerns over a possible arms race on the South American continent have turned the spotlight on who’s buying what and why. Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia in particular appear determined to prove they won't be pushed around by their neighbors and are vigorously defending their military buildup. There is no question that South America is on arms spree, with major purchases by Venezuela and Brazil stoking fears over the possible consequences of flaring regional tensions on an increasingly militarized continent.

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Are US taxpayers funding the Taliban?

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Jean MacKenzie - Sep. 02 (Investigative Report) - KABUL — The United States Agency for International Development has opened an investigation into allegations that its funds for road and bridge construction in Afghanistan are ending up in the hands of the Taliban, through a protection racket for contractors. And House Foreign Affairs Committee member, Rep. Bill U.S. officials confirmed that the preliminary investigation and the proposed hearings were sparked by a GlobalPost special report on the funding of the Taliban.

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Kennedy's death: Ireland mourns a "true friend"

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Conor O'Clery - Aug. 26 (News) - DUBLIN — Nowhere outside the United States is the passing of Senator Edward Kennedy being mourned as much as in Ireland, the country from where his ancestors emigrated during the potato famine of the 19th century and to which he helped bring peace in recent years.

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Clashes, then calm, as Afghans vote

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Jean MacKenzie - Aug. 21 (News Report) - Election day in Afghanistan began with a bang. Several of them, actually. Multiple IED explosions in Kabul caused little damage, but made the point that this time, the opposition was not making idle threats when they vowed to disrupt the

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Foreign aid flowing to Taliban

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Jean MacKenzie - Aug. 16 (Special Report) - It is the open secret no one wants to talk about, the unwelcome truth that most prefer to hide. In Afghanistan, one of the richest sources of Taliban funding is the foreign assistance coming into the country. Virtually every major project includes a healthy cut for the insurgents. Call it protection money, call it extortion, or, as the Taliban themselves prefer to term it, “spoils of war,” the fact remains that international donors, primarily the United States, are to a large extent financing their own enemy.

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Life, death and the Taliban: Blowback

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By C.M. Sennott - Aug. 11 (Special Report) - On a dusty plain not far from the border with Afghanistan, mud-brick walls weathered by rain and time still mark the boundaries of what were once sprawling Afghan refugee camps.

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Life, death and the Taliban

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Charles Sennott - Aug. 10 (Special Report) - Life, death and the Taliban seeks to enhance America’s understanding of Taliban history in Afghanistan and Pakistan. At this crucial time in the U.S.-led war against the Taliban, Charlie Sennott recaps the group’s rise to power and looks at current political and counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan. Photographer Seamus Murphy, who has long chronicled the shifts of power in Afghanistan, accompanied Sennott to Kabul for this report.

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Funding the Pakistani Taliban

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Shahan Mufti - Aug. 08 (Special Report) - MARDAN, Pakistan — Standing in the lush plains of Mardan in the Northwest Frontier Province, the rugged and arid mountains that enclose the Peshawar valley on all sides may appear farther than they actually are. A few dozen miles to the north and west

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What's new in Af-Pak? History you haven't read

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Anthony Paul - Aug. 07 (Special Report) - The more things change on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the more they seem to stay the same ? the same as in the 1870s. The latest news from Waziristan ? the reputed death by U.S. drone strike of Baitullah Mehsud, West Asia?s Public Enemy No. 2 ? doesn?t generate as much optimism as, perhaps, it should. Those Anglo-Saxons active earlier in the region, British colonial forces, killed many Mehsuds over the years, but without, it seems, changing all that much. read more

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Web crackdowns spread

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By David L. Stern - Jul. 21 (News Report) - With less than six months until it takes over the chairmanship of one of Europe’s flagship human rights organizations, Kazakhstan has thumbed its nose to Western governments and introduced a draconian internet law.

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Hero on horseback, or mass murderer?

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Jean Mackenzie - Jul. 17 (Special Report) - The name of General Abdul Rashid Dostum evokes fear or awe, depending on where you're coming from. In Afghanistan, heroes and villains are often fungible. The burly warlord has a reputation for the fierce defense of his fellow

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Life on Planet Uighur

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Kathleen E. McLaughlin - Jul. 15 (News Report) - At the heart of a deadly June toy factory clash that sparked mass protests and killings 2,000 miles away in China’s far west lies a government policy that sends thousands of young Muslim Uighurs to fill labor gaps in the southeast.

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Uighur workers held behind locked gates

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Kathleen McLaughlin - Jul. 10 (News Report) - SHAOGUAN, China — Three weeks after simmering racial tension escalated to mayhem and a double murder at a toy factory here, about 750 Uighur workers remain largely out of sight, behind locked gates and guarded doors. But their story has sparked violent clashes and brought international attention to a remote Chinese province.

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Where Detroit still reigns

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Nick Miroff - Jul. 10 (Special Report) - HAVANA — The Pontiac Aztek never made it to Cuba. Nor did the Dodge Nitro, Chrysler Crossfire, or any other flops of the past 50 years of American auto manufacturing. So as news of bankruptcy at General Motors and Chrysler reaches this city, where

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Kerry: "We are going to take a hard look at Afghanistan"

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By John Aloysius Farrell - Jul. 09 (Special Report) - WASHINGTON — Sen. John F. Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says he will hold far-ranging oversight hearings on the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. “End of summer, early fall, we are going to take a hard look at Afghanistan,” Kerry said in an interview with GlobalPost. Kerry, whose committee previously held informational hearings that focused on Afghan society and the experience of veterans of the war, has until now held off on a public examination of the administration’s handling of Afghanistan while President Barack Obama’s national security team crafted its own counterinsurgency strategy.

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High times in the Himalayas

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Joel Elliott - Jul. 09 (Special Report) - Half a dozen men, all in their 20s, began to stir as the first rays of sunlight broke over the snow-capped Himalayan peaks and warmed the interior of their guest house. They had been smoking hashish and drinking

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In Russia, Obama's not a rock star

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Shaun Walker - Jul. 08 (News Analysis) - MOSCOW — Barack Obama came to the Russian capital this week with a very different message from the ones George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice gave the Russians over the last few years. So, how was this historic visit of the world’s most famous person greeted in Russia? Wall to wall media coverage? Russians lining the route of the Obama cortege? A buzz of excitement in the Moscow air?

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Thick as a BRIC

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Michael Moran - Jul. 07 (News Analysis) - he global economic crisis has put the United States on the defensive, both economically and politically, and looming behind everything Washington does on the world stage these days is a historic question: Is this the beginning of the end of the American juggernaut? In Moscow, many hope the answer is “yes.”

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