(03-Sep-2010)
This week President Obama has brought together four government leaders for the nearly impossible task of making a fresh agreement on peace in the Middle East. Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu shook hands with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, as Jordan and Egypt’s heads of state looked on.
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(27-Aug-2010)
“A tsunami in slow motion” is how UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon described the inexorable advance of monsoon floods down the Indus valley in Pakistan. 20% of the country is flooded, 1,600 lives have been lost, over 17 million people have been...
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(23-Jul-2010)
A little-known provision of the EU's Lisbon Treaty allows citizens to gather signatures in order to petition the European Parliament to debate new legislation. The rules being proposed are that one million signatures would need to be gathered
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(16-Jul-2010)
This week Britain's prime minister backed justice secretary Ken Clarke's proposal to reduce the number of shorter prison sentences in exchange for community punishments and rehabilitation measures.
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(25-Jun-2010)
The World Cup tournament has brought 736 players and 373,000 fans to South Africa; each match is being watched by over 100 million people worldwide, and staging the tournament has cost the host nation $8.6 billion.
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