Sudan peacekeeping role shows China’s new assertiveness
By Gordon Fairclough
The Wall Street Journal Europe
17 Sep 2007

QINYANG, China—Camouflageclad soldiers of China’s People’s Liberation Army fanned out alongside armored personnel carriers in a peacekeeping drill here this weekend, highlighting Beijing’s desire to be seen as helping quell the violence in Sudan’s... read more...

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Maliki’s ability to unite Iraq is questioned (The Wall Street Journal Europe, 22 Aug 2007, Page 7)

Maliki’s ability to unite Iraq is questioned
By Yochi J. Dreazen And Greg Jaffe
The Wall Street Journal Europe
22 Aug 2007

Baghdad, Iraq SENIOR U.S. MILITARY commanders in Iraq are increasingly divided over whether Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his weak coalition are capable of making the necessary compromises that might help end the fighting in the... read more...

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Karl Rove’s legacy is the spread of compassionate conservatism (The Business, 18 Aug 2007, Page 20)

Karl Rove’s legacy is the spread of compassionate conservatism
James Forsyth Political Notebook
The Business
18 Aug 2007

George W Bush’s legacy will be Iraq. Karl Rove’s will be compassionate conservatism – the campaign platform that Rove drew up for Bush when the then Texas governor started thinking about running for president in the late 1990s. The coverage of the... read more...

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Reversal of Fortune (The Wall Street Journal Europe, 13 Aug 2007, Page 10)

Reversal of Fortune
By Bret Stephens
The Wall Street Journal Europe
13 Aug 2007

New York Benazir Bhutto is not the sort of woman who inspires indifference. Admirers and detractors alike broadly agree that the former two-time prime minister is Pakistan’s most gifted politician: an Oxford Union-trained debater, an heiress to the... read more...

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‘ They took us where no one could hear you scream’
BY BOJAN PANCEVSKI
The Vancouver Sun
30 Jul 2007

VIENNA — Five nurses and a doctor freed last week after eight years in Libyan captivity were held in a remote area where no one could hear their screams as they were tortured, a British newspaper said Sunday. In the first interview given by any of the... read more...

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Colombia Needs Trade
By José María Aznar
The Wall Street Journal Europe
16 Jul 2007

Colombians took to the streets on July 5 in a rebellion against terror. The target of their outrage was the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which five years ago kidnapped 12 democratically elected representatives and earlier this month... read more...

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Beijing beefs up public relations to counteract export-safety fears
By Neil King Jr. in Washington and Rebecca Blumenstein in Beijing —Jane Zhang and Brody Mullins in Washington contributed to this article.
The Wall Street Journal Europe
02 Jul 2007

CHINA IS SHOWING the first signs of fighting back against an avalanche of criticism and new restrictions based on safety concerns about its exports. But Beijing’s task is made more difficult by both its awkwardness in the public-relations game and the... read more...

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