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Amid protests from the U.S. and Georgia, French President Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed on March 1 that France was negotiating the sale of four Mistral-class assault ships to Russia. The announcement, which came at the start of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev's three-day state visit, marks the first such deal between Moscow and a NATO country. While Sarkozy described the deal as an attempt to move beyond Soviet-era politics, nearby nations have raised concerns about the decision to sell the ships--which can carry troops, helicopters and armored vehicles--to a country that launched an offensive against...
...series of suicide bombings hit the Iraqi city of Baqubah, northeast of Baghdad, killing at least 31 people and wounding dozens more. The blasts, which came just days ahead of the country's March 7 parliamentary elections, are the latest in a string of attacks by extremists with links to al-Qaeda aimed at destabilizing the country and disrupting elections. In anticipation of further election-related violence, Iraqi officials are planning an increase in security measures across the country, including curfews, vehicle bans and heightened police surveillance...
...alternative energies and $10.5 billion for electrical-grid modernization. The investments went a long way toward fulfilling the lobbying efforts of several core Democratic constituencies - unions, environmentalists and high-tech companies - which had been mounting more aggressive campaigns on behalf of the clean-energy sector as the Bush era came to a close. (See the top 10 green ideas...
...elections than perhaps any Middle Eastern nation besides Israel and Lebanon. In 2003, many U.S. architects of the invasion of Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein hoped the events would be followed by a democratic ripple effect throughout the region. That has not yet happened. The politicians who came to power after the country's first parliamentary election five years ago have been unable to resolve core issues - from deciding how to share oil revenue to how to balance power among the country's regions and the central government and how to weld fractious religious and ethnic groups into...
...nationalist allied with the Sadrists. As the co-head of a secretive government de-Baathification committee, Chalabi helped orchestrate the banning of about 500 mostly Sunni candidates from running in the election, a move that revived fears of a return to sectarian violence. "The Americans say they came here to build democracy, but what kind of democracy is this?" asks Saleh al-Mutlaq, the leader of the country's second largest Sunni Muslim party and one of the banned candidates. "The Americans brought Ahmad Chalabi to Iraq. They should solve this problem, or they should just leave." (See TIME...