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Events in eastern Congo have spiraled out of control within days of a new peace initiative's launch. Now, some in the international community are considering an even more radical solution.
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The world's top multilateral organization is accountable to no one -- and the victims of Haiti's choler outbreak aren't the only ones paying the price.
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Why it matters that the tiny Red Sea country is holding an unprecedentedly-open parliamentary election tomorrow.
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The U.N. is using a number that suppresses the true extent of the number of people killed in Syria. Do they have an better alternatives -- and would it even matter if they did?
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An interview with the exiled Bahraini activist, who recently visited the restive island nation for the first time in two years.
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The West Bank's first Palestinian-designed planned city offers a window into the promises and perils of the current situation in the Middle East. But will it be a novelty, or a game-changer?
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It will take more than two months without rocket fire for this Israeli border town to return to normalcy.
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A new report suggests that the tight relationship between the Iranian and Sudanese militaries has consequences far beyond the Sudan's borders.
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The White House Death Star petition was a joke, but the prospect of war in outer space is anything but.
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The founder of the Millenium Villages Project espouses a geographically deterministic view of African conflict.
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