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Taking Aid Outside of Politics

[twitter style=”horizontal” source=”@intlpolitical” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button”] The Labour Party is now ramping up a campaign, backed by the Private Members Bill, to leg...
by Damien Dacey
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Hard Times in Swaziland

[twitter style=”horizontal” source=”@intlpolitical” float=”left”][fbshare type=”button”] “Hard times”. This is the title of English novelist, Charles Dickens’ book that was...
by Mark Mngomezulu
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Daily News Roundup – 16 July 2012

Europe Athletes arriving in London for Olympics With 11 days to go until the Olympic Games are to start, thousands of athletes and officials have begun arriving at London’s Heathrow airport, which is expecting its busiest day...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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A New Dawn for a New Libya

It has been 9 months now since Colonel Gaddafi was killed as he attempted to escape the wrath of the people he had oppressed for generations. Since then that wrath has slowly transformed to a yearning for the rule of law, democ...
by Max Kuhnke
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The Issues Surrounding This Week’s ASEAN Summit

The annual ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Foreign Ministers meeting is in full swing this week in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and thus far the talks have been highly revealing of the major trends and themes in the reg...
by Jenghiz von Streng
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Is More Democracy Always the Best Option?

At the outset of the Arab Spring, there were some protests in Jordan, calling for an elected prime minister. But in a country whose monarch is actually doing a great job of working in the interest of his people, has been an act...
by Nadine Tewfik-Saad
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Kashmir- ‘Trouble in a bloody Paradise’

Snowy white mountains, lush green hills, endless rivers and streams- a scenic depiction of a so called heaven on earth. But the dark clouds and shadows which emerge over the valleys of Kashmir are little less than of bloodshed,...
by Zahid Mahmood
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Daily News Roundup – 9 July 2012

Europe 8.9% drop in UK university applications University applications from UK students for courses starting in the autumn have fallen by 8.9% on last year, according to figures from the universities and colleges admissions ser...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Focus on Africa: Should we be amused or should we take offence?

It seems to me that the African identity has been under siege from a barrage of demeaning attacks by some isolated but significant players abroad. These attacks have generated an angry discourse across many (social) media platf...
by George Gachara
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