To The Victor Goes the Spoils (Strategy Page) July 27, 2007: Ethnic "Arabized" tribes from Niger and Chad are crossing the Chad-Sudan border. "Arabized" is a vague term, but it usually means the tribe is Muslim. In Sudan it also usually means the tribe is "pro-Sudanese government."...more...Britain almost out of troops, memo reveals (Daily Telegraph) The head of the Army has issued a dire warning that Britain has almost run out of troops to defend the country or fight abroad, a secret document obtained by the Daily Telegraph has revealed....more... TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON (United Nations) Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I have just returned from a two-week trip to Afghanistan and European countries. We discussed a range of important matters, from migration in Brussels, and Millennium Development Goals; also climate change in Geneva....more... Comments: 30 (B92) This is the UN at its worst. They are being held hostage to a plan which has already been rejected and has no chance of going through. Russia has every right to veto any resolution, as does any other permanent member of the Security Council....more... Please read the following instructions before sending your comment (B92) B92 maintains the right to choose which comments to publish, as well as the right to edit their contents. The fields marked with an asterisk must be filled out....more... Number of comments: (B92) First the EU, and now the UN secretary general states that unilateral independence is unacceptable. Also, the US, after all it's talk has not recognised Kosovo unilaterally. So after all the confident talk from the Albanians that the Russian vote was meaningless, it looks like they were wrong....more... |