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WASHINGTON — The outpouring of anti-American rhetoric at the United Nations last week is demonstrating how anger at the United States is uniting the developing world in a way not seen since the 1980s, say U.S. officials and analysts.

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UNITED NATIONS — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad grabbed headlines last week by blasting U.S. policies from the dais of the U.N. General Assembly. But while their words were harsh, in many ways they merely expressed in bolder terms what a number of other world leaders and foreign [...]

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TEL AVIV — With diplomatic sanctions against Iran appearing unlikely and military options promising to be risky, Israel has begun debating the unthinkable: how it might live in a world in which its archenemy has a nuclear arsenal of its own.

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Last week in an op-ed for the Boston Globe, I warned about Iran’s nuclear program and asked the following question: “The real danger is what happens next [in the region]. What do Iran’s rivals — Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey — do if it declares itself a nuclear power?”
A partial answer to the [...]

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CAIRO, Egypt Egypt will begin building nuclear power plants soon, a cabinet minister was quoted as saying Sunday, three days after President Hosni Mubarak called on his government to pursue nuclear energy.
Minister of Electricity and Energy Hassan Younes told the state-owned Al Ahram newspaper that within 10 years of the project’s launch, [...]

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Recent visits from leaders and officials from the United States, France, Germany and Russia have spotlighted India’s rise. These wealthier nations see India as a trading partner with enormous potential.
Although it has not yet matched the financial performance of China — currently the fastest-growing economy in the world — according to some [...]

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“We’ve been in this unfortunate condition since the late 19th century,” he said in an interview, gesturing toward a map on the wall from 1859 showing Bolivia with almost twice its current territory and a swath of Pacific coastline.
Today’s maps show that coast as part of Chile, thanks to the 1879 conflict [...]

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September 24, 2006: In another example of growing hostility of South Koreans to the presence of American troops in the country, the U.S. Air Force has threatened to move its fighter aircraft out of South Korea if the South Koreans do not, as they agreed to, start construction on a new bombing [...]

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September 25, 2006 ? The transfer of wartime operational control of South Korean troops back to Seoul has triggered a heated debate as to whether South Korea is ready to take on the responsibility.
The question is being answered mostly with the assumption that the U.S. military ? either in numbers called for [...]

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