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Brown has announced British withdrawal from Iraq, Obama plans for Guantanamo closure, and more.
According to a UN independent study, Rwanda and DRC are engaged in a "proxy war" with each other, providing assistance to each other's opponents.
Fear of an attack on Europe sparked as the arrest of suspected terrorists in Brussels coincides with an EU summit.
Five detainees held in Guantánamo Bay have asked a judge to withdraw all pending motions so they can confess to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
India gives extradition orders to the Pakistani government, which is urged by the international community to cooperate.
Rumours over the result of a vote in the Nigerian Plateau region sparked violence which has killed hundreds.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has implicated Pakistan in the 24-hour massacre that took place in a key Indian economic and financial centre.
The recent terrorist attack in Mumbai is not a continuation of politics by other means, but part of an exclusivist, modern project that sees human freedom as superfluous.
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Why the Afghan insurgents are reaching out beyond their heartlands 
The serial blasts against Indian cities expose the infirmity of the country’s institutions 
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Pakistan’s military elite and its ostensible US-Nato allies are engaged in a different power-play

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A political crisis in Bangkok is a dangerous distraction from the insurgency in Thailand’s south

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An underfunded and undermanned operation creeps towards disaster on the frontline of the "war on terrorism"
The first of a two-part retrospective: mistakes made, lessons learned and paths not taken
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At the urgings of Sen. Joseph Lieberman and other warriors of the "war on terrorism", internet video sites will have to remove potentially radical material. Should governments wade into cyberspace?
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Profiling people by their ethnic appearance violates human rights without effectively countering terrorism

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The most dangerous Islamist threat to India may be the one from within
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The number of barrels of oil on the Sirius Star, the Saudi super tanker recently seized by Somali pirates

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