Zimbabwe’s president of 33 years, Robert Mugabe, on Wednesday signed a new constitution which many believe offers the southern African country its first real hope for political and economic revival.
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The gentrification of rundown city neighbourhoods in a matter of anxiety and outrage worldwide as well as in Vancouver. Recent issues in Berlin have developed into a bitter campaign with neo-Nazi overtones.
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Why and where Taiwanese fisherman Hung Shih-cheng was killed last week is still unclear, but his death is a brutally vivid illustration of how quickly the competing territorial claims in the Far East can turn to bloodshed.
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Fears that the Egypt’s conservative Muslim Brotherhood has hijacked the secular Arab Spring revolution of 2011 were premature and the Islamist government of President Mohammed Morsi remains locked in a struggle for authority with the country’s dogged and influential judiciary.
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The small drama in Tehran on Saturday as two men rushed to register as presidential candidates before the 6 pm deadline is a useful reminder that while elections in Iran are not free and fair, neither are they fully scripted and devoid of surprises.
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The most likely outcome of Saturday’s election is that Nawaz Sharif, twice prime minister in the 1990s, will emerge the head of a coalition government which carries serious questions for the country and the region.
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Venezuela’s former president Hugo Chavez got away with being a buffoon because he was also a talented showman. His protégé and successor, Nicolas Maduro, matches his master’s skills ….except for the showmanship.
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At first sight Sunday’s elections in Malaysia produced a catalogue of failures all around. But even though the performances of Prime Minister Najib Razak and opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim fell short of expectations, a close look at the results suggets Malaysia is moving away from the total domination of the United Malays National Organization that [...]
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There is as yet no traction under the wheels of Canada’s efforts to have this year’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting moved from Sri Lanka because of the human rights abuses of President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his administration.
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It’s hard to guess when Sombath Somphone crossed the line from being an accepted and cherished champion of rural development in Laos to becoming a perceived threat to the one-party Communist state.
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