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...That last comment might help explain why Obama has opted to deliver his key Africa speech to Ghana's Parliament rather than to a public crowd, which would probably have drawn huge numbers. The news site Politico last weekend speculated that Obama - or his security detail - may also want to avoid the kind of bedlam that greeted Bill Clinton's visit to Accra in 1998, when he was nearly crushed by a crowd that numbered in the hundreds of thousands. On that day, as people surged toward the stage, the visibly terrified Clinton shouted, "Get back! Get back!" (Read "Into...
...Amid strident criticism from industry and national governments, the proposals - currently being scrutinized by both the European Parliament and European Council, which represents national governments at the E.U. level - will almost certainly be amended. Sweden's Odell insisted the legislation was "a raw diamond that needs to be polished more." Myners, the British Minister, has vowed to "fight tooth and nail" to get the draft revised. Industry groups, meanwhile, have mounted keen lobbying campaigns. With nothing likely to enter into force before 2011, "there's one safeguard against it being introduced as it is," says AIMA's Baker...
What will be your next steps? I will campaign to raise awareness in the free world. I will appeal to the White House, the European Parliament and the U.N. to condemn Chinese actions. I will ask the U.N. to appoint an independent inquiry into what has happened in Urumqi...
...southern provinces. An additional 200 soldiers are heading there in the run-up to the Afghan presidential election on August 20, bringing the total number to 4,200 - still below the limit of 4,500 set by Germany's strict parliamentary mandate. But on Thursday, the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, gave the green light under a separate mandate to deploy up to 300 more soldiers to support NATO's AWACS surveillance aircraft in Afghanistan. (Read "Afghanistan and NATO: Is Europe Up to the Fight...
...Until now, major oil companies such as Chevron and ExxonMobil have stayed out of investing in the Kurdish zone for fear that investing there might prompt Baghdad to blacklist them from bidding for the far larger fields down South. But those fears have diminished as the stalemate in parliament over oil has dragged on. Big Oil might also be emboldened to make deals on oil fields in the Kurdish areas since last week, when the Chinese oil giant Sinopec announced that it was acquiring the Swiss oil company Addax Petroleum, which operates in Iraqi Kurdistan. "It will be much more...