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...Bambang Yudhoyono, a retired army general who, if early polls are an indication, could next year become the first Indonesian President to win re-election. Since coming to power in 2004, S.B.Y., as he is known, has presided with integrity, with fewer political scandals than normal to sully his rule. In the resource-rich territory of Aceh, S.B.Y. spearheaded a historic accord that has brought peace to a former civil-war battleground. Despite the fact that Indonesia gave birth to Jemaah Islamiah, an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist movement that twice targeted tourists on the resort island of Bali, the Indonesian...
...Before his flight from Rome in 1943, Mussolini reigned over an iron-fisted dictatorship. He instituted one-party rule, eliminated basic freedoms, and ordered the killing of political opponents. In 1938, Italy instituted racial laws which helped pave the way for the subsequent deportation of thousands of Italian Jews to Nazi death camps...
...Since Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule in 1997, legislative elections have become an important, and closely watched, barometer of the city's unique status within China. Hong Kong's constitution, known as the Basic Law, states that the city's leaders should eventually be chosen by a direct territory-wide vote - though the timetable dictated by Beijing for such elections has often been hotly debated. For mainland China, still unnerved by the prospect of political instability, an orderly transition to full democracy in Hong Kong may provide a possible blueprint for wider political liberalization...
...Sure, this was a principled restatement of the E.U.'s belief in the rule of law. But more than anything it was a sobering reminder of how little the European Union can do to enforce its wishes against an unreasonable and powerful adversary, and a far cry from the "root and branch" review of Europe's relations with Russia that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown had called for on the eve of the summit...
...cooperation. "Yesterday was a strong demonstration of European unity in the face of Russian transgression of core international values," Miliband told TIME. "There was not only strong support for Georgia but a profound reassessment of the right way to deal with Russia. Europeans are committed to territorial integrity and rule-based governance, and these principles have been violated by Russia...