LastSuperpower

• Posted by anita
• Published: 2005-06-26

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On December 21, 2004, four Maoists were tried in Zhengzhou for having handed out leaflets that denounced the restoration of capitalism in China and called for a return to the “socialist road.” The leaflets had been distributed in a public park in the City of Zhengzhou on the occasion of the 28th anniversary of the death of Chairman Mao Zedong.

• Posted by keza
• Published: 2005-06-25

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Professor Ibrahim also acknowledged that the Muslim Brotherhood’s policies might be anti-Western. However, he argued that if the West and the United States in particular want to see democracy flourish in the Arab world, they will have to accept the consequences of that policy, whatever the outcome.

• Posted by keza
• Published: 2005-06-25

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Iraqi Press Monitor is intended to give readers a sense of what Iraqi papers are reporting. Stories for the Iraqi Press Monitor are selected and summarised by Ali Kadhim Marzook in Baghdad and Mariwan Hamarasheed in Sulaimaniyah.

• Posted by keza
• Published: 2005-06-25

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HIS influence may have waned on the global political stage, but Karl Marx seems certain to be voted the world’s greatest philosopher in a new poll.

• Posted by keza
• Published: 2005-06-20

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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will on Monday meet Egyptian reformers who welcome Washington's calls for Cairo to reform and will tell her to boost pressure for more political freedoms. But prominent opposition groups which also want political reform but reject U.S. involvement have not been invited to meet Rice during her official visit to Egypt.

• Posted by keza
• Published: 2005-06-19

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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sought Saturday to energize the faltering negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians over Israel's planned withdrawal from Gaza, but she ran into a tough warning from the Palestinians that Israeli actions were jeopardizing their efforts.

• Posted by keza
• Published: 2005-06-19

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The race for the presidency in Iran was thrown into turmoil on Saturday when the third-place finisher accused conservative hard-liners of rigging the election and cutting him out of the runoff vote next week, which will be between a former president and the conservative mayor of Tehran.

• Posted by keza
• Published: 2005-06-19

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Iran's presidential election was propelled into a historic second-round run-off yesterday, after voters failed to choose an outright winner but confounded the pollsters by backing a hardliner ahead of reformists.

• Posted by keza
• Published: 2005-06-19

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"The democratic winds of reform sweeping through the Middle East appear to have bypassed the Islamic Republic of Iran ... However, the election has caused more excitement and debate than initially expected ... Among the [candidates] is Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the veteran politician and president between 1989 and 1997 ... Mr Rafsanjani's re-emergence signifies an essential and often overlooked change in Iran's power structure - a weakening in the position of the rahbar or supreme leader ...

• Posted by keza
• Published: 2005-06-18

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U.S. works to repair damage of Abu Ghraib By Dave Moniz and Tom Squitieri, USA TODAY

• Posted by anita
• Published: 2005-06-16

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A new trend appears to be developing; a growing majority of young, secular students are rejecting “Islamic democracy” in favor of Western-influenced liberal democracy. Dissatisfied with the current theocratic regime, these students are at the forefront of fundamental shifts now underway in Iranian society.

• Posted by keza
• Published: 2005-06-11

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Days after the election, a feisty Lebanese journalist is murdered. Why?

• Posted by keza
• Published: 2005-06-07

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Women from southern Kazakstan are being forced into prostitution both at home and abroad.

• Posted by keza
• Published: 2005-06-04

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The United States estimates that about 800,000 people are trafficked against their will between nations each year, and that many hundreds of thousands more are enslaved within their own nations. The government also estimates that about 15,000 people are trafficked to the United States each year. That estimate has fallen since the Central Intelligence Agency issued the first one in 2000. Then it was estimated that as many as 50,000 people were trafficked to the United States from a dozen foreign countries each year.

• Posted by keza
• Published: 2005-06-04

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