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The future of the post-Gaddafi Libya is currently unfolding. Following the decision by the UN Security Council, the 15 member body voted unanimously (October 27) to put an end of the authorized military intervention in ...
Following a phone conversation with Chinese President Hu Jintaom, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a televised interview from the Elysee Palace (October 27) that a decision by China to take part in future Eurozone ...
The government of Malawi delined to submit its human rights report to the UN Human Rights Committee (October 25) and have called on civil society organizations to submit their own reports about the country. "Among ...
Maria van der Hoeven, a former economics minister in the Netherlands, took over as Executive Director of the International Energy Agency in September. She is taking over amid concerns that the I.E.A. is ...
A new high level initiative launched by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (November 1) aims to achieve progress on energy efficiency and increase the share of renewable energy globally by the year 2030. The high-level group ...
While driving in his car on the Dutch motorway, Rowdy Ter Voert, Account Manager for Grundfos water utility, one of the world’s leading pump manufacturers, received a call on his mobile with an unusual ...
The positive and negative consequences of submitting personal data on social networks and online applications, known as 'life-logging' is the subject of a report by Europe’s biggest cyber-security agency, ENISA (European Network and Information ...
Interview with Francis Gurry, WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) Director General. Imagine that your organization didn’t exist and you were asked to invent it. What would you build? How would it be fundamentally different ...
Africa is being cooked by climate change, and those causing the crisis should compensate the victims. This is probably the only hope for any top-down action at the Durban COP17 next month, with the Green ...
A young Egyptian Red Crescent volunteer, in Geneva to attend the International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (November 28-December 1), said that the current demonstrations in Tahrir Square are a warning to ...
Following the elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on 28 November, the government has banned the use of SMS messaging and access to social media networks via mobile telephones. "The service works for ...
Although the loss of mountain forests and glacier ice was not on the agenda at the Durban conference on climate change that ended December 11th, advocates are determined it will be on the agenda of ...
After 18 years of negotiations, the initial bid by Boris Yeltsin for Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1993 has finally paid off. The long-lasting negotiations hold the current organization’s ...
The Southern Tiger, Chile’s Fight for a Peaceful and Democratic Future Ricardo Lagos, Palgrave MacMillan, $28.00, £16.99 In this book Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile, gives an extraordinary account of his ...
The Triumph of Politics, The Return of the Left in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, George Philip & Francisco Panizza, Wiley and Polity Books, 19.20 € Of course everybody remembers Hugo Chàvez’ notorious speech at the ...
The chief of Russia’s consumer protection agency, Gennady Onishenko, warned that his country might limit the import of Ukrainian agricultural products by May 2012. The announcement came after an initiative by the Ukrainian authorities ...
The French government has set the target of providing enough offshore wind capacity to power millions of homes. A consortium led by Iberdrola, a leading Spanish energy company, has announced (January 12) the submission of ...
Could French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy have brought down the head of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria? That’s what some media reports are suggesting. On Tuesday, Dr. Kazatchkine, who was ...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has invested $750 million in The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Bill Gates announced a $750 million promissory ...
Finance and Trade are indeed in the eye of the storm, as for many citizens they appear to create more problems than solutions. In their name, politicians seem to avoid tough decisions at global level ...
The piercing anti-EU pronouncements of the Member of the European Parliament (MEP) present nothing new or surprising. As a former trader from the City of London, and the founding leader of the UK Independence Party ...
In an experiment conducted in Geneva (April 5), European nuclear research agency CERN smashed two high-power proton beams in a collision that produced energy reaching 8 trillion electro volts (TeV) — the most powerful on record ...
Afghanistan has been a region of continuous conflict for the past 30 years. Generations have grown up not knowing the meaning of a peaceful society. With 42% of the population younger than 15 years of ...
François Hollande has just been elected president of France: the first socialist president since François Mitterrand (1981-1995). The outcome was narrower than polls had predicted: 51.7 percent for the winner and 49 ...
International governance is often discussed in fora designated by cryptic letters. The ‘Gs’ have referred to the Group of 8 (G8), the Group of 7 (G7), the Group of 2 (G2) and now the Group ...
Given the political paralysis in Washington and the on-going crisis over the eurozone, it is difficult to be optimistic about the global economy. Focusing solely on recent gloomy headlines, though, causes us to miss a ...
With the recent economy forcing employers worldwide to get more stringent with their resources, several industries have seen increases in the outsourcing of work to in-country as well as international freelance workers. This trend has ...
iPolitics, Richard Fox, Jennifer Ramos, Cambridge, €25.61, $32.99. Today, traditional media are (finally) coming to terms with the fact that the Internet, in particular social media and mobiles, are redefining the industry. It ...
Are the developed countries finally going to cast their gaze into the abyss opened up by the global obsession with money? Have we, at last, decided to undergo a detox cure for pure greed for ...
Does anyone still believe or wish for a peaceful settlement for Syria? If so today is a good moment to wonder whom this might be. In 16 months, 20,000 people have died in civil ...
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