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There was a sense of inevitability about the latest collapse in global trade talks. Negotiators, meeting in Geneva, had seemed optimistic a few days earlier, hopeful of a breakthrough in the seven-year-old Doha round. But as so often, hope was no match for the strength of entrenched positions. After the breakdown, there were the usual murmurings that trade ministers might get together again to salvage something from the wreckage. But most observers found it hard to escape the conclusion that, this time, Doha really was dead...
...Indian pictured above, from a surge of rich-world imports. But the precise rock on which the talks foundered - if it hadn't been one, it would have been another - was less significant than the evident power and influence that developing nations now have on the international economic agenda. Seven years ago, before Iraq, the subprime meltdown and $140-a-barrel oil, the world economic order was easier to maneuver. But the intervening years have seen huge growth - and concomitant influence - outside the U.S., Japan and Western Europe...
...bout of soul searching is also due for the longstanding main opposition Sam Rainsy Party, which, after a strong showing in the 2003 national election, only managed an increase of two seats, to 26, on July 27. Three smaller parties took a combined total of seven seats, though official results will not be released for at least another week. The day following the election, the Sam Rainsy Party and the three other parties held a joint news conference to announce their rejection of the preliminary results of the election, which they claimed was "rigged...
...wounds healed, he and seven other gang members are sitting in a muddy backyard behind an empty house. The homeboy who lives there with his mother is a crackhead who has pawned off everything in the house except for a photograph on the wall of his runaway father...
Even if the father of seven and his two female co-workers had planned to attack a platoon of armored American humvees, it would have been a sure suicidal mission to carry it out with "small arms," as the military identified their weapons - which generally refers to rifles or handguns - on such a heavily guarded road with no escape path. It is surrounded by blast walls on either side...