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Daily News Roundup – 13 September 2012

Asia North Korea refuses aid from South North Korea has refused to accept food aid from Seoul just weeks after Pyongyang appealed to the United Nations for aid following a series of heavy flooding. It highlights the tensions be...
by Tom Dunbar
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Doing the Democratic Math

When the apartheid state security apparatus unleashed its violence in Sharpeville in 1960, sixty-nine people were left dead. It was a traumatising episode in the struggle for black rights and racial equality in South Africa. Ye...
by Mark Mngomezulu
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National Security’s Cameo

Having been cast to the wayside in a way that it hadn’t been during the previous two presidential elections, eleven years after the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001, the topics of National Security and Terrorism have ...
by Laura Casey
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Daily News Roundup – 12 September 2012

  Europe German court backs ESM bailout fund Germany’s Constitutional Court has rejected calls to block the permanent eurozone rescue fund, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), but has imposed conditions including a c...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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North America

Jerusalem: a city at war

President Obama and the US Democratic Convention took the unprecedented step of recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. This comes in the aftermath of the racist anti-Palestinian statements by the Republican candidate M...
by Nadim Souss
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Daily News Roundup – 11 September 2012

  Europe Spanish Prime Minister rejects bailout conditions Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, speaking in his first television interview since taking office, has said he will not accept outside conditions over a possi...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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China

Protest vote? Hong Kong Election Analysis

Ahead of a key universal suffrage vote, the failure of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy parties to capitalize on Beijing’s unpopularity does not bode well “For the serious failure in this election I have to accept full political...
by Gareth Lewis
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Daily News Roundup – 10 September 2012

  Europe George Soros calls for Germany to “lead or leave the euro” International financier George Soros, writing in Monday’s New York Review of Books, has called for Germany to “lead or leave the euro”.  The co...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Ed Miliband: Anything You Say

by Sam Kirk
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