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- Zarqawi death:
Good news for the resistance
There could not have been better news for the Iraqi national
resistance than the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the alleged
al-Qaeda chief in Iraq. For years, as a cynic, I had refused
to believe that there was a Zarqawi.
- For the courageous,
a modern day fight to abolish slavery
On June 5, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice released
the Department of State's fifth annual Trafficking in Persons
(TIP) Report. The report puts it bluntly: trafficking in
persons is modern day slavery, and is a crime that affects
virtually every country, including the United States.
- Degree by
degree, political crisis hots up
The Maldives is yet to boast of a university of its own.
But only graduates with a first degree are eligible to contest
presidential elections, according to President Gayoom.
- Will climate
change lead to conflict and strife?
If I return to the subject of global warming,
climate change and environmental decay, all of which, it
appears, are interlinked, it is for very good reasons.
- King Fahd’s
widow takes to PR to win her battles
PARIS - Janan Harb, the widow of King Fahd,
who died last August, is letting it be known that not only
will she be continuing her legal odyssey against the late
monarch, but also she has decided to take a leaf from the
Saudi elite and take to public relations to attempt to get
across her point of view.
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