World
Japan’s prime minister resigns over U.S. base on Okinawa
June 3, 2010The prime minister of Japan resigns because of solid opposition throughout Japan to relocating a U.S. military base on Okinawa.
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Germany, Afghanistan, Gaza
June 1, 2010On the first such occasion in German history, President Horst Koehler, only a year into his second term, told a sudden press conference Monday that he was immediately resigning.
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Honduras coup reverberations continue
June 1, 2010Four months after a new president, Porfirio Lobo of the right-wing National Party, took power, killings continue and he has still not achieved full legitimacy in Latin America.
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Iran, Brazil, Turkey and the ghost of Lord Palmerston
May 28, 2010Recent events bring to mind what Britain's Lord Palmerston said in the 1800s: "England has no permanent friends and no permanent enemies, only permanent interests."
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Unholy alliance: Israel, apartheid South Africa and nukes
May 28, 2010Sasha Polakow-Suransky's book "Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa" has ripped the lid off the secret world of unholy alliances and weapons of mass destruction.
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