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Thursday 29 January 2009 (02 Safar 1430)

Somalia faces catastrophe

The search for a government to bring order to Somalia is growing increasingly desperate as warring Islamist factions, tribal clans and bandit gangs exploit a power vacuum created by this week’s Ethiopian... Full Story


After Gaza, a new end game

It is now time for sober diplomacy on all fronts. The three-week Israeli blitzkrieg that ravaged Gaza has claimed many victims, and they were not all hapless Palestinian refugees trapped in the overcrowded... Full Story


Editorial: Olive branch to Iran from US

It is only as President Barack Obama’s team sets about defusing the Bush foreign policy that it is really becoming apparent just how lethal and explosive it was. Bush’s European missile defense shield... Full Story




Editorial: Russian gesture to Barack Obama

It is only as President Barack Obama’s team sets about defusing the Bush foreign policy that it is really becoming apparent just how lethal and explosive it was. Bush’s European missile defense shield... Full Story


Afghanistan: Obama’s Vietnam?

You aren’t really the US president until you have ordered an airstrike on somebody, so Barack Obama is certainly president now: Two in his first week in office. But now that he has been blooded, can... Full Story


Libya’s lessons for Iran

It is rapidly becoming a truism that all problems in the Middle East are so intertwined that they must be all negotiated into tolerance and disarmament at more or less the same time — not sequentially... Full Story