South Africa: Cops vs gangs – who is winning?

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Police have assured Cape Town residents they have gang-related violence under control.
This comes after recent flare-ups, such as those in Bishop Lavis, where 13 people had been murdered.
The violent incidents in the Cape Flats suburb did not constitute the onset of a full-scale gang war, they said.
Speaking at the weekly police briefing in Bishop Lavis [...]

Gangs of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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War on Rio’s drug gang slums
The police in Rio de Janeiro are engaged in a war on drugs that the authorities are determined they should not lose.
In a single confrontation this week in one group of favelas, or slums, known as the German complex, at least 19 people were killed.
It was one of the biggest [...]

Russia Rocked by Financial Crisis

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As companies slash jobs and the ruble looks ready for a crash, Russians are trying to keep cheer by holding “anti-crisis” parties at fancy bars. By Jason Bush more…

The Allies and Russia: A Tear in the NATO Bulwark
Letter From Berlin: As Financial Crisis Grows, EU Emerges Stronger
Father Russia: Putin and the Presidency

‘None Of India’s Cities Can Remain Safe From Our Missiles’

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Pakistani Nuclear Scientist: ‘None Of India’s Cities Can Remain Safe From Our Missiles’; ‘Our Missile System… Can Be Fired in Only 10 Minutes – They Are On the Launchers’
Amid growing tensions between India and Pakistan following the 11/26 Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistani nuclear scientist Dr. Samar Mubarakmand spoke of the readiness of Pakistani missiles and [...]

China ‘faces mass social unrest’

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Rising unemployment and the economic slowdown could cause massive social turmoil in China, a leading scholar in the Communist Party has said.
“The redistribution of wealth through theft and robbery could dramatically increase and menaces to social stability will grow,” Zhou Tianyong, a researcher at the Central Party School in Beijing, wrote in the China Economic [...]