The assessment, a National Intelligence Estimate that represents the consensus view of all 16 American spy agencies, states that Tehran is most likely keeping its options open with respect to building a weapon, but that intelligence agencies “do not know whether it currently intends to develop nuclear weapons.”
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Iran will not be building the [...]

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C. Raja Mohan, a former member of India’s National Security Advisory Board, said he does not think the western world has grasped the full implications of the rise of Asia, especially India and China.
Both, he said, will match or overtake the superpower status of the United States within 30 years. And with combined populations of [...]

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Kasparov’s arrest and Litvinenko’s assassination would be unthinkable in a democracy. But what Russia is today is less a democracy than a continuation of the murderous totalitarianism that began in November 1917.
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There is no historical precedent for a country to be governed by former and active officers of a political police organization that killed [...]

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Beijing may have thought it was making a clear diplomatic demarche. But the flip-flopping over the Kitty Hawk made China seem indecisive and vindictive. It led a lot of observers to wonder what would happen if there was a real crisis in the Taiwan Strait, where there is always the potential for a disastrous “misunderstanding.” [...]

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America is coming apart at the seams. Forces foreign and domestic seek an end to U.S. sovereignty and independence. Before us looms the prospect of an America breaking up along the lines of race, ethnicity, class and culture. In Day of Reckoning, Pat Buchanan reveals the true existential crisis of the nation and shows how [...]

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Britain’s Royal Navy would struggle to fight a major war because of years of under-funding and cut-backs, according to a defence ministry study leaked to the Sunday Telegraph. The weekly newspaper said the report was ordered by Defence Secretary Des Browne to counter claims from opposition political parties and the media about a lack [...]

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The results of the referendum, which would have given new powers to President Hugo Chávez, were a stunning development in a country where Mr. Chávez controls nearly all of the levers of power. By Simon Romero in Caracas more…

Venezuelan Caesar: Chavez Defending His Power from the Inside

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Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party swept to a landslide victory on Sunday. The result is hardly surprising given the amount of power and control the president has. But what happens next? By Uwe Klussmann in Moscow more…

‘Limited Political Competition’: OSCE Slams ‘Unfair’ Russian Election
Photo Gallery: Election Day in Russia
Putin and ‘United Russia’: Portrait of a [...]

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