Catholic Europe: How damaged is the Papacy? |
By Bobby Ghosh On Good Friday 2005, as a dying Pope John Paul II watched via video hookup, worshippers outside the candlelit Way of the Cross ceremony in Rome's Colosseum recited meditations written by the man who would be his successor. Breaking with tradition, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's musings veered away from Christ's Passion and into the Catholic Church's current problems.
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Could terrorists get hold of a nuclear bomb? |
By Stephen Mulvey World leaders are heading for Washington to discuss what Barack Obama has described as "the most immediate and extreme threat to global security" - the risk that terrorists could acquire a nuclear bomb. But how likely is this scenario?
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Namibia’s tortuous trek @ 20: The way forward |
By Kayode Kolade with Agency report Ordinarily, what ought to be a carnival like celebration to commemorate a hard fought struggle for nationhood, turned out to be one of sombre reflections. Namibia made a glorious but decisive date with history on March 21, 1990 when she achieved independence. For Namibians, it has been a journey that traversed over hundred (100) years of gruesome anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggle as well as a century of brutal colonial oppression and exploitation.
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Obama and nuclear syndrome |
By Gavin Hewitt When it comes to Russia and America, nuclear weapons are old footage. They seem to belong in another time, when the old guard would stand atop Lenin’s Mausoleum and watch SS20s trundling through Red Square. Or fresh-faced soldiers in their Midwestern silos practising their dual-key launches. It was an era of Doctor Strangelove and MAD - mutually assured destruction. Presidents - we were often reminded - travelled with the nuclear codes.
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Lebanon as a model for Iraq |
By James Denselow Following the Iraqi elections earlier this month, the foreign secretary David Miliband announced that "the Iraqi people, voting in their millions, have made clear they want an effective, accountable and inclusive government".
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Terreblanche killing reopens South Africa race wounds |
By Peter Burdin The murder of white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche has reopened many old wounds in South Africa. As clips of his speeches are played and replayed on news channels, it is chilling to hear the fantasy world he inhabited and his vision of a racially-segregated South Africa destined to fight to its own death.
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Food, water driving 21st century African land grab (II) |
By John Vidal The government of southern Sudan says many companies are now trying to acquire land. “We have had many requests from many developers. Negotiations are going on,” said Peter Chooli, director of water resources and irrigation, in Juba last week. “A Danish group is in discussions with the state and another wants to use land near the Nile.”
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Food, water driving 21st century African land grab (I) |
By John Vidal We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon be Ethiopia’s largest greenhouse. Nestling below an escarpment of the Rift Valley, the development is far from finished, but the plastic and steel structure already stretches over 20 hectares — the size of 20 football pitches.
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7 things your boss should never say to you |
By Karen Burns A look at the various comment threads show that a few bosses could benefit from a review of the basics of good workplace relations—not to mention a quickie refresher of what constitutes good leadership.
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