Politics: International Politics
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From triumph to torture
How Palestinian journalist and NS contributor Mohammed Omer left Gaza to receive an award only to be brutalised on his return by the Israeli security organisation Shin Bet
In international politics
How a continent missed its moment
- By Michela Wrong
- 03 July
Mbeki's grand project has been sabotaged by his inability to view events on the continent outside a narrow racial prism
No easy way out
- By Michael Fathers
- 03 July
The policy failures of Nato and the United States have left Afghanistan and Pakistan dangerously unstable, argues Ahmed Rashid. And any solution will be difficult as long as Pakistan's army and military intelligence continue to support the Taliban and al-Qaeda
A warning to torturers everywhere
- By Hugh O'Shaughnessy
- 02 July
The man who did much of Pinochet's dirty work is given two 25 year sentences for blowing up an exiled Chilean general and his wife in Buenos Aires
Workers of the world unite
- By Alyssa McDonald
- 02 July
The world's first truly international trades union looks set to be unveiled with a membership of more than 3m as the labour movement goes global
Where there is art there is hope
- By Victoria Brignell
- 01 July
How the disabled - many of them victims of a long-running and bloody conflict - are helping bridge the ethnic divide in Sri Lanka against a background of escalating violence
The bare life of immigrants
- By Iselin Åsedotter Strønen
- 30 June
A new EU directive allows tougher action against illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, Western citizens are able to work around the globe. Iselin Åsedotter Strønen detects an irony
Feature
Ingrid Betancourt -- who she?
The parochialism of the UK media plumbed new depths with coverage of the release of the kidnapped Colombian politician
More in international politics
Fabricate that fear
- By John Pilger
- 26 June 2008
Troubled borders
- By Michela Wrong
- 19 June 2008
Fatwa against terrorism
- By Ziauddin Sardar
- 19 June 2008
Obama's first presidency
- By Geoffrey Robertson
- 19 June 2008
Can't take the heat
- By Andrew Stephen
- 19 June 2008
New world orders?
- By Carne Ross
- 19 June 2008
Radical hope in Venezuela
- By Hugh O'Shaughnessy
- 19 June 2008
