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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council will hold a special meeting on a border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand that has sparked fears of a military clash, France and Vietnam said on Wednesday.

French Ambassador to the United Nations Jean-Maurice Ripert told reporters the council discussed a request by Cambodia to take up the […]

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_ by Chris Patten

[Lord Patten is a former Governor of Hong Kong and European Commissioner for External Affairs. He is currently Chancellor of Oxford University and Co-Chair of the International Crisis Group.]
Maybe it is time to be a bit more generous to French President Nicolas Sarkozy and look at the outcome of what he does […]

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_ by Bennett Ramberg
 
[Bennett Ramberg served in the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs in the George H.W. Bush Administration. He is the author of several books on international security.]
LOS ANGELES – Forty years ago this month, more than 50 nations gathered in the East Room of the White House to sign the Treaty on the Nonproliferation […]

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_ by Jeffrey D. Sachs

[Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also a Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals.]
The G-8 Summit in Japan earlier this month was a painful demonstration of the pitiful state of global cooperation. The world is in deepening crisis. […]

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_ by Nava Thakuria
Loosing an important ballot race in the Constituent Assembly for the ‘Head of the State’ and his subordinate, the rebellion communists of Nepal find themselves in an embracing situation. The emergence of a three party alliance, opposing the Maoists, has even compelled the Maoist leader Prachanda, who was projected as the Prime […]

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By The Associated Press
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-Excerpts from the 1995 U.N. war crimes tribunal indictment charging former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his wartime military commander, Gen. Ratko Mladic, with genocide and crimes against humanity in Bosnia:

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_ “They are criminally responsible for the unlawful confinement, murder, rape, sexual assault, torture, beating, robbery and inhumane treatment of civilians; […]

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_ by Michael G Kulma
 
[Michael G. Kulma is Director of Policy Programs at the Asia Society.]
NEW YORK – At the outset of the ongoing violent protests in South Korea over imported beef from the United States, the entire cabinet of South Korean President Lee Myung-bak offered to resign.  Last week, President Lee fired three of […]

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_ by Antonio Cassese
[Antonio Cassese, the first President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and later the Chairperson of the United Nations’ International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur, teaches law at the University of Florence.]
Those who follow events in Darfur closely know very well that Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir leads […]

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_ by Shashi Tharoor

[Shashi Tharoor, an acclaimed novelist and commentator, is a former Under-Secretary- General of the United Nations.]
NEW DELHI ­– When a foreign minister goes out of his way to assure reporters that there is no tension on his country’s borders with a powerful neighbor, the logical tendency is to wonder whether “the lady […]

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_ by H. Harry L. Roque

[H. Harry L. Roque Jr. is Professor of Law at the University of the Philippines College of Law and Chair of its Center for International Law.]
MANILA – The tragedy of the sinking of the Princess of the Stars ferry in the waters off Romblon in the Philippines – with hundreds […]

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_ by Dani Rodrik

[Dani Rodrik, Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the first recipient of the Social Science Research Council’s Albert O. Hirschman Prize. His latest book is One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth.]
CAMBRIDGE – The world economy has seen globalization collapse once […]

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_ by Richard Weitz

[Richard Weitz is a Senior Fellow and Director of Program Management at the Hudson Institute.]
WASHINGTON, DC — The debate between the United States and Russia over US plans to deploy ballistic missile defenses in Europe is heating up again. Persistent differences with Poland over its conditions for accepting defensive interceptor missiles have […]

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Today marks the one-month countdown to the opening of the Beijing Olympics.
And with only one month to go, the Chinese government is intensifying its campaign of repression in Tibet, aimed at preventing protests during the Games.
Just over two weeks ago, journalists who joined a government-controlled tour of Lhasa during the Olympic torch relay reported that […]

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_ by Joseph E. Stiglitz

[Joseph E. Stiglitz is professor of economics at Columbia University. His most recent book, co-authored with Linda Bilmes, is The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Costs of the Iraq Conflict. He was the recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics.]
NEW YORK – The world has not been kind to […]

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_ by Ian Buruma
 
[Ian Buruma’s most recent book is Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance. He is a professor of democracy, human rights and journalism at Bard College.]
AMSTERDAM — The late Arthur Koestler, born in Budapest, resident of many countries, and writer in several languages, once said […]

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_ by Hassan Abbas
[Hassan Abbas, a Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, is author of Pakistan’s Drift into Extremism: Allah, the Army and America’s War on Terror.]
CAMBRIDGE – Following its recent free elections, Pakistan is rebounding politically. But the euphoria that came with the end of the Musharraf era […]

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_ by Anna Husarska

[Anna Husarska is Senior Policy Adviser at the International Rescue Committee, www.theIRC.org.]
KABUL – As if the armed conflict between Afghan government forces supported by the American-led coalition and the Taliban were not enough, Afghanistan is faced with a crisis that it wishes it could call a success: the Big Return.
From Jalalabad to […]

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_ by A.B. Yehoshua
[A. B. Yehoshua is one of Israel’s most acclaimed novelists and essayists. His most recent novel, A Woman in Jerusalem, was awarded the Los Angeles Times book prize for 2006.]
TEL AVIV – Finally, the long-sought truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip has become a reality.
Reaching this uneasy state has […]

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