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Feature: Bush opposes trade violations regarding Sudan
The U.S. State Department sent a leader to leaders in the U.S. Senate declaring opposition by the Bush administration to a proposed bill that would punish U.S. foreign investors in Sudan. The bill would require U.S. states to divest from their investment portfolios any interests linked to foreign investment in Sudan. The bill punishes entities from investing in Sudan while the Sudanese government failed to take action in what the Bush administration has termed 'genocide' in Darfur. Assistant Secretary of State Jeffery T. Bergner in his letter to Democratic Sen. Harry Reid...
EnergyPromises and Pitfalls
Forging a new partnership between the United States and China can help address climate change, but only if regulatory and...
IsraelIsrael and the NPT
A new INSS article discusses Israel's precarious posture between allying itself with the United States and the country's...
Global MarketsGovernments Hold Strings To Global Markets
The fact that government regulators are gaining firmer control of capital markets is true not only in the...
AfricaZim at 100 (Days)
Zimbabwe's unity government has reached the hundred days mark. This is a landmark of sorts, I suppose, albeit a rather artificial...
ChinaPromises and Pitfalls
Forging a new partnership between the United States and China can help address climate change, but only if regulatory and...
China Floats Carbon Tax Plan as a Means to...
The Chinese government is considering imposing a pro rata carbon tax on coal and fossil fuels such as gasoline, jet fuel,...
Slower Bank Lending in April; Weak Exports...
Bank lending slowed down in April China in April tightened its previously loose monetary policy in an effort to curb...
The ArcticEU bans seal imports; Canada, Norway, and...
Like its fellow resident the polar bear, the little furry seal has been at the center of international disputes in recent...
PakistanTaliban and America
It is just awful to see how rapidly everything in Pakistan is degenerating. There is hardly any sector or segment in the...
Central AsiaKazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan don't...
Eight countries from the Middle East and Central Asia met in Prague on Friday to push along plans for the Nabucco pipeline....
MexicoWho Got the Flu?
Normality is returning to Mexico City. Unfortunately, the Mexican economy is not. The economy is clearly...
ChildrenTechnology hitches and glitches remind us...
The last week and a half has brought with it all the trials and tribulations of modern conveniences and technology. First...
LebanonHizballah Says LAF Not Equipped to Face Israel
A Hizballah official complained Monday that the Lebanese army is still not equipped to deal with Israeli aggression. MP Mohammad...
Rising PowersAre People Happy in the Rising Powers?
Among residents of the BRIC nations, Brazilians are the happiest, followed by Russians, whereas the Chinese are the...
Global Food CrisisWTO: Trade is not to blame
The World Trade Organization's (WTO) chief countered the perception put forward by development experts that the international...
China Floats Carbon Tax Plan as a Means to...
The Chinese government is considering imposing a pro rata carbon tax on coal and fossil fuels such as gasoline, jet fuel,...
Tsvangirai on Mugabe, Untangled
What Morgan Tsvangirai probably really means when he says that Robert Mugabe is "part of the solution" to Zimbabwe's problems: Robert...