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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 06:57
The upcoming talks in South Sudan are unlikely to result in a peace deal worth the paper its written on. Neither the government, nor the rebels want to compromise. Kiir has said previously that he will not enter into any kind of power sharing deal with Machar, and Machar’s faction won’t stop fighting without one.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 06:50
The latest draft of the Eastern Partnership declaration prepared for the bloc's Riga summit next month contains little good news for EU hopefuls Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, and highlights the shrinking ambitions of the European Union in its eastern neighborhood.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 06:41
After nearly a decade of training, equipping and paying for Afghanistan's security forces, the United States has no idea how many Afghan soldiers and police are currently serving or how effective they are at fighting the Taliban.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 06:39
Human Rights Watch (HRW) presented its report before the delegates of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) last week in Banjul. The document raises concerns over the general human rights situation in Uganda, Nigeria and South Sudan.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 05:59
Venezuela says it will cut the working day for public sector workers to five-and-a-half hours to conserve energy, down from eight to nine hours.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 05:54
A significant drop in the number of children apprehended at the United States-Mexico border in recent months sprang from Mexico’s record number of deportations of minors traveling without a guardian, according to an analysis released Tuesday. The analysis, by the Pew Research Center in Washington, noted that the flow of children not authorized to enter the United States had dropped precipitously, to 12,509, from October to February. The vast majority of the children were Central American.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 05:52
Colombia’s Health Ministry has recommended halting the spraying of an herbicide widely used in an American-funded campaign to eradicate crops of coca, the plant used to make cocaine.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 07:32
Around 15,000 Guatemalan citizens staged a protest in Guatemala city on April 25 to demand the resignation of President Otto Perez Molina and Vice President Roxana Baldetti. On previous days, the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), a UN-sponsored an independent investigatory agency, uncovered a tax-fraud scheme used by middle and high-ranking members of the government.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 07:29
In just over a year, Ukraine has seen a political revolution, two elections (one presidential, one parliamentary), an economic collapse and a Russian invasion resulting in a “hybrid war” that has ravaged the country. Its new western-leaning government has struggled to maintain sovereignty as well as stability.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 07:24
The U.S. empire can continue to see itself as a force for good, doing things that would be unacceptable for anyone else but never to be questioned when performed by the global cop -- that is, it can go on not seeing itself at all, expanding, over-reaching, and collapsing from within. Or it can recognize what it's about, shift priorities, scale back militarism, reverse the concentration of wealth and power, invest in green energy and human needs, and undo the empire a bit sooner but far more beneficially.