What makes America such an indispensable power is precisely what makes anti-Americanism inevitable
It amuses me that some of those who criticise the present US Administration for its Manichaeism - its division of the world into good and evil - themselves allocate all past badness to Bush and all prospective goodness to Obama. As the ever-improving [...]

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The BBC’s Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, looks at increasing speculation that Iran may come under attack because of its nuclear programme.
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The talk has alarmed, among others, the former German Foreign Minister, Joshka Fischer.
Germany has, with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, taken the lead in talks with Iran about its nuclear [...]

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Nor is it only the Israelis who are concerned. Egyptian and Saudi leaders also expressed their worries about Iran’s nuclear ambitions when Bush met with them on the trip, several White House aides say. “People in the region really want to see it solved peacefully,” says a senior White House official, “but they’re also concerned [...]

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WILL the world lose another miracle cure? Fifty years ago chloroquine seemed to be an unbeatable malaria remedy. But as the popularity spread of this synthetic form of quinine (a tree extract), the biological backlash began in the form of drug resistance. Today it is not recommended even for use in Africa, which suffers most [...]

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