Pakistan: The Making of a Crisis
TIME - 13 hours ago
In the 1990s, relations between Islamabad and Washington chilled after the US imposed sanctions on Pakistan for pursuing nuclear weapons. …
Pakistan’s Bhutto turns screw on Musharraf AFP
Rice urges Pakistan to return to democracy Dallas Morning News
Pakistan: Emergency rule to be lifted within a month MarketWatch
Independent Online - Toronto [...]

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REGION: ‘All options on the table’ in facing Iran, says Israel
Daily Times, Pakistan - 5 hours ago
JERUSALEM: An Israeli deputy prime minister said on Saturday after a US visit that “all options are on the table” to halt Iran’s nuclear drive, which Israel …
AL chief stresses need to halt military nuclear program Xinhua
Mofaz’s shameful and arrogant suggestions [...]

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Flush with oil wealth and facing elections in the new year, Russia under President Vladimir Putin grows more assertive and belligerent by the day.
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Russia’s future looks disastrous. Emigration, alcohol abuse and the fact that its women have more abortions than live births brings down the national population each year. By 2050, there will be fewer [...]

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Professor Martin van Crevelt, one of Israel’s most prominent military historians, claims that Ahmadinejad’s fulminations should not be taken too seriously, as the Islamic Republic will not even be an existential threat to Israel. The latter has long had what it needs to deter an Iranian attack. But should deterrence fail, van Crevelt warns, “Jerusalem [...]

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Chinese sub has US military concerned
United Press International - 7 hours ago
10 (UPI) — US Navy officials are concerned over the unexpected appearance of a Chinese submarine during a major military exercise in the Pacific Ocean. …
Chinese Sub Pops Up Undetected in US Navy Exercise Cleveland Leader
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With more than a little irony, even the Iranians are worried. “Pakistan is not a country, Pakistan is an army,” an Iranian close to the regime in Tehran recently complained to me. “And it’s an army you can’t count on.”
My Iranian friend tried to make the case that we would be better off with Tehran [...]

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“All options on the table” in facing Iran: Israel’s Deputy PM
AFP - 3 hours ago
Israel and the United States accuse Iran of pursuing atomic weapons under the guise of a peaceful nuclear energy programme, charges Tehran has repeatedly …
The German bottleneck Jerusalem Post
Israel claims elbaradei should go for failure over Iran Tehran Times
Israel, US to set [...]

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After the Soviet Union collapsed, the world is left with only one superpower, viz., the US. The Cold war had ended. But Russia seems bent upon regaining its lost status. It dominates the political scene in the European Union if not across the globe.
AFTER THE COLLAPSE of the Soviet Union, Russia has started to dominate [...]

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The new American strategy in Iraq is based on a fairly simple assumption: The US goal in Iraq is to defeat its enemies, and to defeat its enemies the US must target them with the aim of defeating them. This is a strategy based on common sense.
Unfortunately, common sense seems to be the rarest of [...]

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Iran, Russia and Venezuela Feel the Benefits
High oil prices are fueling one of the biggest transfers of wealth in history. Oil consumers are paying $4 billion to $5 billion more for crude oil every day than they did just five years ago, pumping more than $2 trillion into the coffers of oil companies and oil-producing [...]

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