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News about Hamid Karzai
Get that Nobel Peace Prize ready for Karzai, the Taliban terrorists: Bribes for Peace ?
Here’s something to think about when you’re in the unemployment line or among the working poor of the vast middle class, the new hoi-polloi of the 21st Century, asking for another bowl of porridge, trying
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Cautious NATO moves closer to China and India, but not Russia
With the Cold War long over, but hot wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continuing, NATO is re-thinking its mission and finding itself leaning more toward relations with China, India, and even Pakistan, but still doesn’t
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Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan hold trilateral meeting
Turkey hosted a trilateral summit in Istanbul with the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan on 25 January. Led by Turkish President Abdullah Gul, the meeting was the fourth such summit. Afghani President Hamid Karzai and
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No quick way out of Afghanistan
More than eight years after the Taliban was ousted from Afghanistan, they are on the way back in and there will be no fast exit from Afghanistan, even once the West’s new strategy for the
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Parallel Universe "H": Hun Sen, Hamid Karzai, Hu Jintao
The former Khmer Rouge guerilla, Hun Sen, is now -- 25 years after his installation by occupying Vietnamese troops -- still Cambodia's Prime Minister. For much of the time since the successful UN intervention in
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The Conference
How do you solve a problem like Ukraine not having enough money to store Chernobyl’s waste past the next 25 years? You hold a conference in Brussels. How do you solve a problem like more popular growth
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Extra! Extra! Read all about it! NATO loses war in Afghanistan
Buried among the news stories last week, but not as deep as the 1,516 NATO soldiers and 850,000 civilians dead because of the fighting in Afghanistan in the more than eight-year-old war, was the little
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Hillary flies to London for Afghanistan Conference
In what is gearing up to be the event of the Defense calendar 2010, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s timely Conference on Afghanistan is drawing every stakeholder, including the US’s secretary of State, Hilary Clinton. Clinton
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January 26 - Today in History
A tangled day in European history, with Edward III of England being declared King of France in 1340, France declaring war on England in 1666 and in 1788 England, Netherlands, Austria & Sardinia sign an
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EU-phemisms: No one fails around here, they have “deferred success”
Just when you thought no one could beat we Americans in butchering the English language – deliberately – to spin defeat into success and cover up a bad situation (civilians killed in war become “collateral
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The grades are in for Obama’s first year in office – and they’re not so good
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there (American humorist Will Rogers) You’d think being only the third American President to win the Nobel Peace Prize –
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What Next in Afghanistan?
BERLIN – Afghanistan’s future does not look good. The Taliban are gaining military and political strength, and President Hamid Karzai is losing support at home and internationally due to his administration’s rampant corruption and the
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Obama sends in the surge, NATO sends in the trickle
US President Barack Obama’s decision to send 30,000 more US troops into what critics called the growing debacle of an eight-year war in Afghanistan drew a pledge of help …. a little … from European
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Can Obama end the crisis in confidence?
Obama’s announcement on new Afghanistan military commitments scheduled for after the Thanksgiving holiday has been heralded by his Administration as offering what it takes to “get the job done”. Obama wants to signal an end
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Educating Afghans Not An OSCE Pipe Dream
ASTANA – Fresh from Kabul, Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev vowed to strengthen the humanitarian dimension of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s strategy for Afghanistan when his country assumes the OSCE's chairmanship
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NATO won’t stay in Afghanistan forever, UK looks for the exit
Even as NATO’s new Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the commitment to the war against terrorism in Afghanistan by the alliance and Europe is strong, he said its troops will one day be pulled
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EU, Germany tell Afghanistan’s leader to stop rampant corruption
The European Union and Germany have joined up to support a draft resolution calling on the government of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, who was fraudulently re-elected but backed by the EU and the United States,
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Belarus: lift sanctions
The European Union’s foreign ministers will meet this month to decide whether economic and political sanctions on Belarus should be eased or removed. The decision will come even as Belarus’ hard-line President Alexander Lukashenko has
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Belarus has had the EU’s stick, and now it’s looking for sanction-free carrots
Little more than a year after partially lifting some long-held sanctions on Belarus – a country accused of a poor human rights record and failure to move more rapidly toward democratic reforms – European Union
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That phony fraud Karzai Is not worth dying for
During the Vietnam War era, a decorated veteran named John Kerry appeared before a Congressional committee to denounce what he had been fighting for, realizing it was a folly propped up by politicians in a
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Obama says US, EU must avoid protectionism temptation
In a meeting in Washington with the current Swedish Presidency of the European Union, US President Barack Obama said that as the world recovers from the economic recession that the US and EU should not
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EU, UN call on US to do more to fight climate change
German Chancellor Angela Merkel made the case on 3 November for a global deal on climate change on the Capitol Hill. The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall gave Merkel a chance
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Brown determined to provide security for Afghan poll
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged on 21 October that British troops would continue to provide security for the second ballot run-off in Afghanistan’s disputed presidential election. Speaking in parliament, Brown said he was determined
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Fewer EU monitors for second Afghan presidential vote
The European Union has welcomed the news that Afghanistan was to hold a run-off presidential election, noting that “the safeguards of the electoral system have worked” after massive fraud led to the first round results
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US’ Galbraith puts the lie to UN’s Afghan cover-up
If you’re looking for integrity in diplomacy, a business where it’s otherwise antithetical, you don’t have to go further than the name Galbraith, and that’s why the United Nations is hoping the world will soon
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EU monitors say the fix was in for Afghan voting
In a report that could put the European Union on a political hot seat, EU election monitors said that up to 1.5 million votes in Afghanistan’s presidential election, one quarter of all ballots, had been
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EU says Afghan vote fraud allegations need to be probed
The European Union said it backed a complete investigation into “allegations of fraud” in connection with the recent presidential elections in Afghanistan. The EU said it supported the work by the UN-backed Election Complaints Commission
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Upset over bombing, EU will boost help for Afghan civilians
The West should work with the Afghan people, “not bomb them,” French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said ahead of European Union talks on how to boost the bloc’s civilian help to the war-torn nation. The
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Karzai scams the EU, US: He’s not Afghan President
Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, who knows how to fix elections, has admitted he told his cronies after he won with a near-unanimous vote, to lower his percentage to under 90 percent, the threshold he said
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New NATO chief says no pull-out despite mounting dead
As the insurgents of the Taliban dig in for the long haul in Afghanistan, and the number of NATO casualties have reached a record level, the new head of the alliance, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said
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Kassandra
David Cameron and the Rumble in the Jungle
It is said that a week is a long time in politics and this week has been as long as
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Suffer Little Children
The Commission are sometimes accused of making propaganda, especially when engaging with children, but their
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Farage to Belgium: I'm sorry; but he's not apologizing to Van Rompuy
Speaking to New Europe ahead of his meeting with European Parliament President, Jerzy Buzek, the
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Banking
Banks can create and destroy -...
Banks can create money. This time-cherished truth opened the way to the last credit crisis, which still threatens the world
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Down with the bankers, loan sharks...
Europeans have rightfully blamed greedy American bankers whose blood lust for money caused the worldwide recession that put scores of
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EU says ok to Greek deficit...
After the European Union once again delayed any decision on whether to bail out Greece as the country struggles to
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EU Council/Presidency
Farage To Belgium: "I'm Sorry"...
Speaking to New Europe ahead of his meeting with Parliament President, Jerzy Buzek, the unrepentant EFD Leader spoke about being
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Spanish Presidency plan for electric...
 Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, whose country holds the rotating European Union presidency, has pledged to present a
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World unites in Haiti aid effort:...
With the whole world watching, as Haiti tries to recover from the 7-richter earthquake that has reportedly killed 50,000, a
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USA
Despite defeat, US could still access EU citizen’s bank data
Although the European Parliament dealt a surprise defeat to an EU-US deal that would have allowed American investigators to look
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Obama gives $8 billion loan guarantee to boost nuclear power
US President Barack Obama on 16 February announced $8 billion worth of loan guarantees to
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Hillary flies to London for Afghanistan Conference
In what is gearing up to be the event of the Defense calendar 2010, UK
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The grades are in for Obama’s first year in office – and they’re not so good
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit
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Russia
Baltics question need for sale of French warship to Russia
The Baltic states of Latvia and Lithuania said on 24 February that they remained to be convinced that the sale
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Russia may consider new Iran sanctions
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev said his country is ready to consider new sanctions against Iran
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Khodorkovsky condemns Russia’s legal system
Russia’s justice system is still mired in violence and arbitrariness, despite reforms promised by Kremlin
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Two years into Medvedev’s first term as president
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev marked the halfway point of his four-year term in office on
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CHINA
Will China re-define great power politics?
Will China redefine great power politics?   China is presenting its ascent not as a power shift, but as a paradigm shift.
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EU firms bullish on China, intellectual property debated
The worldwide economic recession has had European Union businesses keenly eyeing China for continuing markets,
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China miffed over German snubs at Frankfurt book fair
Showing there is still some major differences between the European Union and China in areas
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Sauat Mynbayev

Bylines
Joseph E. Stiglitz
The Dangers of Deficit Reduction
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Alec Mally
Mr. Papandreou goes to Washington
Alec Mally
Professor Irnerio Seminatore
Kazakhstan Presidency of OSCE a ‘Helsinki Plus’?
 Professor Irnerio Seminatore
Robbert Simmons
OSCE Chairmanship and beyond
Robbert Simmons
Struan Stevenson MEP
Putting the sparkle back into the OSCE
Struan Stevenson MEP
Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan
The destiny and potential of the OSCE
Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan



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