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India is an enormous power in the new world order

India is an enormous power in the new world order. It is Australia’s fourth-largest export market, our second-largest source of foreign students. We earn about $14 billion a year in education exports. And it is a central player in the geo-strategic equations of Asia and increasingly of the whole world. Read more

China’s tough tone causing concern among western leaders

A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington said China’s tone had not changed.

“China’s positions on issues like arms sales to Taiwan and Tibet have been consistent and clear,” Wang Baodong said, “as these issues bear on sovereignty and territorial integrity, which are closely related to Chinese core national interests.” Read more

Since “the end of history” and “the new world order” that global trouble just keeps on coming

GOVERNMENTS have learnt since “the end of history” and “the new world order” that global trouble just keeps on coming, regardless. Sometimes from neighbours, more often from further afield. Where should Canberra be looking especially closely, to be ready for tripwires that lie waiting in the next two or three years? Read more

Iran President says big powers seek to dominate

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a meeting with his Guyanese counterpart Bharrat Jagdeo said that the big powers were hatching plots to dominate the resources in the region.

“The big powers have planned for Read more

Kenya rioting today as police sit by

The police approach to the Jamia Mosque riots is being described as unusual, even curious. Stone-throwing mobs went about their business right in-front of riot control policemen in what is being attributed by sources to a serious hitch on the police command chain. And as NTVs Rose Wangui reports, it was apparent that the riot police had no clear instructions on how to engage the rioters

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Israel has angrily denounced a threat of a US imposed sanction

The relationship between the two traditional allies has been strained after Israel rejected a request by the United States to freeze settlement expansion.

In an interview on U.S. media Middle East envoy George Mitchell said the U.S. could withhold loan guarantees if Israel failed to advance the peace process. Read more

Video: Protestors Killed in Iran

Iranian officials say five people have died in violence between opposition protesters and security forces in Tehran.

The protests coincided with Ashoua, one of Shia Islam’s most important holidays.

Among the dead is the 35-year-old nephew of Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi.