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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 05.11.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Hugo Chavez, Turkey, Algeria, Pakistan, Iran, Georgia, Ukraine, Barack Obama, Robert Gates, Baitullah Mehsud, Moldova, Somalia, Azerbaijan, Israel, North Korea, World News
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Turning East - Turning West: Brewing Revolutions and Breakaway Provinces Facts: Up to 100,000 protesters h...

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Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika Favored To Win Reelection Today

AFP | Posted 05.10.2009 | World

Read More: Algeria, Algerian Elections, Foreign Affairs, Africa, Election, Advocacy, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, World News

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika cast his ballot Thursday as millions in the oil-rich north African country voted in polls in which Bouteflika ...

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Britain's Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Abdullah Bin Omar, Lotfi Bin Ali, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Terrorism, Tony Blair, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, David Addington, Abu Qatada, Ahmed Belbacha, Lotfi Lagha, Britain's Guantanamo, Politics, Libya, Uk Government, UN Convention Against Torture, Return to Torture, World News
Andy Worthington

There are many unnerving similarities between the Bush administration's policies and those implemented in the U.K., which have caused barely a ripple of protest.

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Do You Know Which Countries Hold America's National Debt?

Mark Nickolas | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Foreign Holding of U.S. Debt, Russia, U.S Treasury Bonds, Japan, National Debt, China, Qatar, Islamic Republic of Iran, Oman, Indonesia, Algeria, Nigeria, Ecuador, Politics News
Mark Nickolas

While Treasury doesn't breakdown the oil producing states which hold American debt (together they are in third place), that group includes quite a few pariah nations.

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Wall Street, Somalia, and Jack Sparrow

John Feffer | Posted 03.06.2009 | World

Read More: Pirates, Somalia, John Thain, Wall Street, Jack Sparrow, Russia, John Thain Decorator, Suez Canal, Debt, Ethiopia, Algeria, Horn of Africa, Merrill Lynch, Pirates of the Caribbean, Saudi Arabia, Somalia Ethiopia, Frank Lambert, Wall Street Bonuses, Somalia Pirates, Morocco, Somali Pirates, European Union, United States, John Thain Merrill Lynch, Pirates of the Caribbean 4, New York City, Rubrick Biegon, Foreign Policy, Pirates Ship Somalia, Brooks Brothers, John Thain Bonus, Ethiopian Troops Somalia, Bonuses, Tripoli, Citigroup, World News
John Feffer

Why are more than a dozen of the world's navies converging on Somalia to battle pirates there instead of sailing into New York to capture the Wall Street pirates?

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CIA Chief In Algeria Accused Of Rapes

Abcnews.go.com | Posted 02.28.2009 | World

Read More: Cia Rape Case, Cia, Algeria, Cia Chief Algeria, ABC News, Cia Rape, ABC News Cia Algeria, Cia Station Chief Algeria, David Pearce, Cia Algeria, Cia Chief in Algeria, Cia and Algeria, Cia Station Chief in Algeria Accused of Rapes, Algeria Cia, Algeria Cia Chief, David Pearce Cia, Cia Rapes, Allgeria Cia Accused Rapist, Cia Algeria Chief, World News

The CIA's station chief at its sensitive post in Algeria is under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for allegedly raping at least two Musli...

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We are like a city on a hill

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Journalists, Diyala, Bombings, Fairy Tale, Obama, Puritan, Colonists, Province, Shiite, America, Pakistani Capital, Old Lord, Northern Sri Lanka, Border Region, John Winthrop, Terrorism, Mother Jones, Sevenfold, Algerian Capital, Prince, Army General, Islamabad, City Upon a Hill, Iraq War, Baghdad, Algeria, Mosques, Sunni, Female Suicide Bomber, Harper's Magazine, Pakistan, Iraqi, Jodhpur, Iraqi Officials, John McCain, Iraq Violence, India, Jamal Tawfiq, Opposition Leader, Politics News
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

This election will show the public's choice, its mandate for the type of leader it wants to deal with complex issues, like why people use terrorism as a tactic to dialogue with those in power.

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Two 50 Year Olds Are Released From Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Algeria, Sudan, Sami Al-Haj, Terrorism, Pakistan, Mustafa Ibrahim Al-Hassan, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Adel Hamad, The Guantanamo Files, Mammar Ameur, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Like at least 120 other prisoners seized in Pakistan, their long imprisonment never had anything to do with al-Qaeda or the war in Afghanistan.

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Clearing Out Guantanamo: Two More Algerians Transferred

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Mustafa Hamlili, Mohammed Al-Qadir, Tunisia, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Abdulli Feghoul, Abdul Raham Houari, Taliban, Return to Torture, Al-Qaeda, The Guantanamo Files, Algeria, Politics News
Andy Worthington

As part of its alleged "desire not to hold detainees any longer than necessary," the Pentagon announced on Tuesday that two Guantánamo prisoners had ...

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Guantanamo: Repatriation as Russian Roulette

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mustafa Hamlili, Terrorism, Sandra Hodgkinson, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Abdul Raham Houari, Return to Torture, Algeria, The Guantanamo Files, Ahmed Belbacha, Al Qaeda, Guantanamo Torture, Torture, Politics News
Andy Worthington

In the disturbing game of Russian roulette that confronts Algerians repatriated after facing allegations of impropriety (however groundless), they could face torture, show trials and further imprisonment.

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