Vlad Grinkevich - Mar 15, 10
The current global financial and economic crisis confirms that during economic upheavals the rich get richer and the poor become more destitute.
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March 15th (BBC News) - The US has said it is awaiting a "formal" response from Israel amid a row over its decision to build 1,600 new homes in occupied East Jerusalem.
Over 43 people have been killed in the Somali capital of Mogadishu in two days of fighting between Shabab (al-Shabaab) insurgent forces, who on March 10 advanced to within one mile of the nation’s presidential palace, and troops of the U.S.-backed Transitional Federal Government. The fighting has just begun.
ListenAlthough abortive ‘proximity talks’ between Israel and the Palestinian Authority were unlikely to bear fruit, the Netanyahu government’s recent brazenness when dealing with Washington will have consequences for both sides of US-Israeli relations.
This backgrounder will examine the international nuclear nonproliferation regime; specifically the origins, benefits, and drawbacks of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). Increasingly obvious loopholes and a looming NPT review conference in May are coming together to make 2010 a watershed year for the nuclear nonproliferation regime.
