04 Apr
Events of Interest and Analyses, A Foreign Perspective
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News
Afghanistan and US ‘close to night raid deal’
Agreement would give lead role to Afghan forces, as raid footage shows innocent family looking shocked and frightened.
Last Modified: 04 Apr 2012 13:54 GMT
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Central & South Asia
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Deaths in Afghan suicide blast
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Karzai team clashes over US relations
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Prison-transfer deal signed
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Cash flight out of Afghanistan
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Big security challenge
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Israeli police evict illegal Hebron settlers
Group of settlers ejected from disputed house in West Bank city, after taking it over from Palestinian owners.
Last Modified: 04 Apr 2012 14:53 GMT
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Middle East
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The settlers go marching in
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Bi-national state favoured
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West Bank settlers attack ex-prisoner’s house
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Israel’s radical settlers
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Revenge of the settlers
French right focuses on ‘radical’ Muslims
Yasmine Ryan 04 Apr 2012 13:28 GMTLe Pen and Sarkozy are using the tragedy on the campaign trail and taking the shootings out of context, critics say.
How did America become land of the high school massacre?
As yet another student opens fire on his former classmates, Jeremy Laurance asks if such atrocities share an underlying cause.
Comment
Mitt Romney leaves the podium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after his victory speech. Photograph: Jeffrey Phelps/EPA
Mitt Romney, the GOP’s brother from another planet
Ana Marie Cox: Romney has put the Republican nomination beyond doubt, but now he faces a far greater challenge: his own authenticity deficit
The race for the Republican nomination for president has been one of the most theatrical in modern times – so many characters! Costume changes! Plot twists! – but last night’s results wrung from it every last bit of drama there might be. From here on out, it’s comedy.There’s Rick Santorum‘s slapstick (tripping over reporters, sometimes facts: elderly fleeing the killer Dutch government!) and Newt Gingrich‘s lively improvisation (he’s very much making up his campaign as he goes along).And then, there’s Mitt Romney. I guess we can call him deadpan. How else to interpret his utterly unself-conscious assertion that the problem with Obama is that he’s “surrounded by an adoring staff … it’s enough to make you think you might become a little out of touch.” At least, Obama’s adoring staff kept him from putting ten grand on the NCAA final four, and we still don’t know how many Cadillacs Michelle drives………………………………..
