Sunday Telegraph Russians help Iran with missile threat Former Russian military personnel have been secretly helping Iran acquire technology to make missiles capable of striking European capitals
H2 Independent on Sunday Bush to Blair: First Iraq, then Saudi George Bush told Tony Blair two months before the invasion of Iraq that Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran and N Korea may also be dealt with over WMD's, a top secret memo shows
The Fear Contagion A Flu Quarantine? No, Sir By Wendy Orent, Despite all the hysteria, there isn't a shred of evidence that a flu pandemic is actually on the way. Quarantine planning is useless and preventive vaccination premature.
Krugman The Big Squeeze If large corporations continue to cut wages, America's already-eroding working middle class may wash away completely. Something must be done.
Herbert Get It Together, Democrats It's not enough to tell voters how terrible the Republicans are. The Democrats need to discover what they truly believe and then tell it like it is.
Why Conservatives Are Divided By RAMESH PONNURU To see where the fault lines really lie in regards to Harriet Miers, it helps to review the history of conservatives' relationship with President Bush.
A Quake Jolts Armies, Too Last week's earthquake has tested the mettle of the state in both India and Pakistan, and no institution more than their armies.
Doomsday: The Latest Word if Not the Last Fascination with the end of days is seemingly everywhere, in popular television ministries, on best-seller lists and even on bumper stickers.
Kristof Schoolyard Bully Diplomacy The United States is bullying Niger and dozens of other poor countries and cutting off some of their aid because of their support for the International Criminal Court.
Rich - It's Bush-Cheney, Not Rove-Libby The investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame's identity as a covert C.I.A. officer has illuminated the conspiracy behind the selling of the war in Iraq.
God Is in the Rules By GEOFF D. PORTER A fatwa explains why soccer as we know it is heretical.
In a Sunni Quarter, A Day of Emotion By Anthony Shadid Some saw their vote as a way to stake their claim anew to a country they consider theirs; to others, it was a last attempt to forestall its partition.
Ready for High-Tech Progress? By Sebastian Mallaby, It feels like the 1990s minus the good parts: There's a sickly buzz of scandal emanating from the political establishment, but there's no carefree ignorance of al Qaeda and avian viruses; no exhilarating diet of falling poverty statistics and rising stock prices; no escaping the unnerving prospect...
Editorial Caucasian Violence CHECHNYA, INGUSHETIA, Dagestan, North Ossetia and now Kabardino-Balkariya: Once again, one of the republics of Russia's North Caucasus region -- places whose names were once almost unknown in the West -- has become the scene of excruciating terrorist violence.
Putin's Spreading War By Masha Lipman, The attack on Nalchik, capital of the north Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, was a carefully planned guerrilla operation carried out in broad daylight in a big city. The estimates of the fighters' numbers have varied from 50 to 600
Window Into Al Qaeda By David Ignatius, Al Qaeda is waging a political war for Muslim hearts and minds as it seeks to build a global caliphate. America shouldn't be fighting in Iraq theater in ways that make it harder to win the larger war.
Germany's New Outlook Friendlier Transatlantic Relations Likely Under Chancellor Merkel By Jim Hoagland, Angela Merkel's new coalition government in Germany provides a sudden silver lining for the dark clouds that have descended over the Bush presidency. It will now be easier for Washington to work with Berlin and the European Union.
The Fear Contagion A Flu Quarantine? No, Sir By Wendy Orent, Despite all the hysteria, there isn't a shred of evidence that a flu pandemic is actually on the way. Quarantine planning is useless and preventive vaccination premature.
A Vietnam Architect's Wisdom on Iraq By David S. Broder, Mel Laird has a unique perspective on the U.S. engagement in Iraq. Not surprisingly, the man who was defense secretary in the Nixon administration and the architect of the policy that managed the extraction of American forces from the seemingly endless war in Vietnam has his own view of the current...
Editorial A Future Investigation Some day, senior offiicials and officers will be held accountable for detainee abuse. Sen. Carl M. Levin's proposal for an independent investigative commission offers an opportunity to hasten that day's arrival. Islamic Extremists Fill Aid Chasm After Quake Amid the rubble and the rain at the heart of Pakistan's earthquake zone, the foot soldiers of Jamaat ul-Dawa are very much in evidence. H6 Guardian Early Iraqi constitution success Initial tallies suggest that Iraq has approved a constitutional referendum despite strong opposition from Sunni Arabs.
Too soon to celebrate It will take a day or two to gather the final results of Iraq's constitutional referendum, but the initial signs are that there was a high turnout and a yes vote, with the no vote predictably concentrated in the Sunni areas most unhappy with the document.
Inside zone zero - bird flu countryMark Honigsbaum: For 125 miles south of Constanta, at the delta town of Ceamurlia de Jos, one of the most dangerous pathogens known to birds or humans has already entered through Europe's back door.
Why Muslims reject British values A Sivanandan: As ministers accuse Muslims of failing to integrate into mainstream society, a leading black intellectual and anti-racist campaigner calls on Tony Blair's government to face up to the reality of continued racism in Britain.
Washington Institute Entering the ‘Tipping Period’ in Iraq Saturday’s constitutional referendum is the first of two critical events in the next months that could shape Iraq for years or even decades to come. Sunni Arabs’ increasing participation in politics gives them the chance to play the spoiler in Iraqi reconstruction.
Der Spiegel THE MODERN CHANCELLOR Taking Stock of Gerhard Schröder Gerhard Schröder was Germany's third chancellor to come from the ranks of the SPD Social Democratic Party. He was also the most contradictory of the whole bunch. But without his personal charm there would have been no SPD-Green coalition. What will his legacy be? H12 RFE/RL
Shia and Kurdish support bolsters constitution Strong Sunni opposition to the broad-ranging federalism set out in the new Iraqi constitution may not be enough to stop it being ratified
Washington seeks to raise Syria pressure The Bush administration is looking at ways of increasing pressure on Damascus, but still wants to give the regime of Bashar...
COMMENT: Why economic renewal will have to wait By Wolfgang Munchau With the help of the liberal Angela Merkel, the British calculated that they would be in a good position to relaunch the European economic debate. As it happens, the changeover in Germany is taking a little longer.
COMMENT: It is not too late to cast off Europe's pessimism By Jose Maria Aznar It is not too late to change gear in Europe. Immobility and soft leadership is the worst possible prescription, writes Jose Maria Aznar, former prime minister of Spain
Countering Chávismo in a cool manner For a country with the largest oil reserves in the western hemisphere, it surely makes little sense to invest money in capital intensive nuclear power. Understandably...
Financial Times Victor's laurels Even if Mr Yushchenko bends with the political wind, he must not break with the Orange Revolution's ideals.
Lesson for India from energy rivalry India's failure to win control of PetroKazakhstan, the Canadian oil company with all its operations in the Central Asian...
German poll result hinders nuclear revival This was meant to be party time for Germany's nuclear power industry. After seven years of a centre-left government that was proud to be anti-nuclear, industry executives had hoped last month's election would provide a new lease of life for atomic power. H16 Weekly Standard Criminalizing Conservatives Fall of 2005 will be remembered as a time when it became clear that a strategy of criminalization had been implemented to inflict defeat on conservatives. by William Kristol
H17 Daily Telegraph Iraq's Sunnis must recognise new realities Iraq's new constitution breaks ground by recognising the country is a plurality of peoples. And though they are yet to accept it, Sunni Arabs are the minority now.
Iraqis defy the insurgents Iraq appears to have avoided a major political crisis as early predictions suggest voters have endorsed the new constitution.
Sunday Telegraph Russians help Iran with missile threat Former Russian military personnel have been secretly helping Iran acquire technology to make missiles capable of striking European capitals
Last chance to avoid war Our report today on the illegal transfer of missile technology to Iran marks a serious raising of the stakes in the faltering effort to make Teheran come clean about its nuclear programme.
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