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One Year After Cairo: Obama and the Muslim World

By Michael Crowley Friday, Jun. 04, 2010 President Barack Obama speaks at Cairo University in Cairo, Thursday, June 4, 2009. Chuck Kennedy / White House / CNP / Corbis On June 4, 2009, Barack Obama brought the vast promise of his...

Cameroon: A country not measuring up to its vast potential

  By HARRIET ISOM COMMENT   In May I went back for a week to my last posting in the Foreign Service - Cameroon in Central Africa. I served there as U.S. Ambassador from 1993 to 1996. I wanted to see how this...

Sarkozy charts new course for Franco-African relations

Sarkozy charts new course for Franco-African relations To take advantage of all the features on FRANCE24.COM, please click here to download the latest version of Flash Player. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has backed African countries' calls for permanent UN Security Council...

L'armée américaine face au tabou homosexuel

04/06/2010 | Mise à jour : 07:51 Réactions (88) Le président Barack Obama félicite les cadets de l'académie militaire de West Point, le 1er décembre 2009. L'abrogation de la loi qui interdit aux gays d'afficher leur préférence suscite des tensions dans les...

Un Mondial sous haute surveillance

  Mots clés : Mondial, football, Afrique du Sud, sécurité, police, reportage Nadjet Cherigui 04/06/2010 | Mise à jour : 17:36 Réagir À trois semaines du lancement de la Coupe du monde, démonstration de toutes les forces du pays dans les rues de ...

Top US Diplomat Fails to Show Up to Defend Israel

Where was she this time? The United Nations Security Council held an emergency Security Council meeting Monday on Israel's raid of a ship headed to Gaza -- and the United States was represented by the deputy at the US Mission. Reporters, UN members and activists were mystified as to why Susan...

Who will be the next Dutch prime minister?

Published: 19 May 2010 16:35 | Changed: 20 May 2010 15:43 The Netherlands will go to the polls to choose a new parliament on June 9. But although, officially, Dutch voters will only be electing the 150 members of de Tweede Kamer, the real race will be fought out between...

All about soundbites: a philosophical look at the failure of the left

Photo Maurice Boyer Published: 27 May 2010 14:45 | Changed: 28 May 2010 11:04 The Dutch labour party leader, Job Cohen, is losing ground. But his attitude in the election campaign is exemplary for left-wing politicians. They prefer not to play along with...

Retired Dutch politicians critical of Israel

In Hebron, a small group of Jewish settlers has occupied the heart of the town and, under the protection of an enormous army and police force, acquired the sole rights to be outside in the city centre.  Photo AFP Published: 28 May 2010...
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