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Friday, August 21, 2015 - 06:39
Colombia's Marxist rebels indefinitely extended a month-old ceasefire on Thursday as peace talks resumed in Havana, with the government still pledging not to conduct air raids on rebel camps.
Friday, August 21, 2015 - 06:37
With more than 1.25 million displaced, over 4,000 killed, and about 80 percent of the Yemeni population in desperate need for help, the prospects for Yemen as a future functioning nation state do not bode well without a proactive plan to stop the fighting.
Friday, August 21, 2015 - 06:34
Unlike Brazilians, though, most Mexicans have not drunk the “new era” Kool-Aid. Legal impunity is rampant. While Mexico is far ahead of Brazil in the World Bank’s ease of doing business survey (at 39th position, ahead of Chile and Israel, versus 120th for Brazil), the opposite is true on the rule of law.
Friday, August 21, 2015 - 06:18
Six years after expelling the DEA, Bolivia has quietly become one of South America’s leading success stories in the war on drugs.
Friday, August 21, 2015 - 06:17
Apart from a few gruesome interludes, such as Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait or the nearly decade-long war it fought with Iran in the 1980s, the major Arab powers have not had to do much fighting since reaching peace deals or durable ceasefires with Israel after the war in 1973.
Thursday, August 20, 2015 - 07:45
With what is touted to be the final exercise before the AU’s African Standby Force (ASF) becomes reality looming ever larger on the horizon another reminder the importance such a force has for the continent this week came from the United Nations.
Thursday, August 20, 2015 - 07:42
In the latest in a series of sexual abuse allegations against United Nations peacekeepers in the Central African Republic, the families of two women and one girl under the age of 18 have accused three peacekeepers of rape, the United Nations announced Wednesday.
Thursday, August 20, 2015 - 07:39
Russia delivered the military and technical assistance to Tajikistan to strengthen the border with Afghanistan, the Russian Embassy in Dushanbe said.
Thursday, August 20, 2015 - 07:38
The emergence of the new group, recruiting among central Mali's marginalized Fulani ethnic minority, has sown panic among residents, forced some officials to flee, and undermined the efforts of a 10,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission to stabilize the West African state.
Thursday, August 20, 2015 - 07:37
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and his Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov have discussed relations between their two former Soviet republics in Central Asia.