As it pursues its territorial ambitions, China is following an increasingly belligerent course that can easily tip into war with its neighbours. In the last few days elements of the People’s Liberation Army have aggressively intruded into the territory of Japan and India.
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Pakistan’s former military dictator Pervez Musharraf has spurred some unwanted dramas into the campaign for next months elections by ending his four-year self-imposed exile and seeking to be a candidate.
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South African President Jacob Zuma is embroiled in a raging controversy over the involvement of 400 of his government’s troops in a failed attempt last month to defeat a coup in the Central African Republic.
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The Chinese government has made it clear it has no intention of living up to its promise to allow voters among Hong Kong’s 7.1 million people to freely elect their government leader.
Only candidates who are patriotic and don’t confront Beijing will be allowed to run or have their elections confirmed by the central government, says a senior Chinese official.
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Margaret Thatcher, who died on Monday aged 87, was the most revolutionary political leader of Britain since Oliver Cromwell in the 17th century.
While Cromwell laid the groundwork for Britain’s emergence as parliamentary democracy, Thatcher dismantled the remnants of the class system and created the meritocracy we see today.
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In a significant victory in the year-long campaign to wrest control of Somalia from the militant Islamic al-Shabaab group, government forces and their African Union allies have after months of fighting won control of a key road between the capital, Mogadishu, and the key central city of Baidoa.
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