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When Russian tanks trundled into Georgia in August 2008, it dawned on the European Union that it should have been paying more attention to the volatile Caucasus and Black Sea regions right at its doorstep. Turkey - strategically placed between the Balkans, Black Sea and Middle East - is fast becoming a...
So with so little time "to change the world" - Merkel's stated ambition for the G-20 meeting - what concrete proposals are likely to be agreed? Officials confidently predict that there will be progress in reforming resources for financial institutions. In particular, they expect more than $100 billion in support...
Those suspicions made some members of the Sahwa easy pickings for a tenacious insurgency that has capitalized on the rising resentment many in the Sunni community feel toward Shi'ite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government. Among their complaints: that Baghdad has sometimes been a month or two late...
The pledge, coming just ten days after Obama's televised appeal for a "new beginning" between the U.S. and Iran, suggests the White House's efforts to thaw relations with Tehran are paying off. U.S. Afghan envoy Richard Holbrooke even met Akhundzadeh, and had what was described as "a brief...
•Signed the Kyoto Protocol on his first day in office, fulfilling a campaign pledge and leaving the United States as the only developed nation not to ratify the climate change pact.