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31.12.2007 "Disappointed, angry, jaded... uncertainty... police state." These are the the terms being used in Kenya to describe the volatile situation in the streets Monday after it was announced that President Mwai Kibaki had won a close and disputed election.

31.12.2007 'Our politics really can overcome the gravest threat to the future of our planet,' argues UK government minister Hilary Benn.
From: The Guardian

31.12.2007 The UN-African Union Mission in Darfur -- set to become the world's largest peacekeeping operation -- is poised to take over on Monday from the African Union force that has been working to quell the violence in western Sudan.

31.12.2007 Bhutan's border with India has been sealed since Sunday as the Himalayan kingdom goes for hisstoric elections today (Monday).
From China View
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30.12.2007 Christian Salmon considers how George Bush's wartime administration used a magician, Hollywood designers, and Karl Rove telling 1,001 stories to sell the invasion of Iraq.
From: Le Monde

30.12.2007 The Pakistan People’s Party said it wanted to contest the general elections on 8 January, after the 19-year-old son and the husband of the party's assassinated leader, Benazir Bhutto, were named as co-chairs of the party.
From Daily Times
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30.12.2007 Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki was sworn in on Sunday for a second and final term as riots and protests erupted in parts of the country over the election results.
From Daily Nation
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30.12.2007 Kenya's Electoral Commission declared President Mwai Kibaki the winner of the 2007 polls and he was immediately sworn in at State House gardens to serve a second term.
From The Standard
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30.12.2007 Desperation, mutual suspicion, mistrust and anxiety provoked by a delay in announcing the winner of Kenya's presidential vote puts the country on the threshold of crisis.
From The Standard
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30.12.2007 Climate change went mainstream in 2007, but there is still a gap between the urgency of the science and our willingness to act, says Tony Juniper in his year-end review. Read and hear interview with Tony Juniper on OneClimate.net.
From: The Guardian

29.12.2007 Companies in Norway have until Monday to increase the proportion of women on their boards to 40 per cent or face the prospect of being shut down.
From Daily Telegraph

29.12.2007 While no commitment was made to specific action at the Bali summit, 190 countries did agree on a sensible and achievable plan, says Jeffrey Sachs.
From: The Guardian

28.12.2007 The assassination of Benazir Bhutto reflects the nature of the repression and the absence of the rule of law and human rights in Pakistan, says a statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission.

28.12.2007 The United Nations peacekeeping mission monitoring the ceasefire between Ethiopia and Eritrea has called on both sides to show maximum restraint after a shooting incident in the border area where the two countries fought a two-year war that ended in 2000.

28.12.2007 Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams appealed to Christians to do more to safeguard the planet, saying it should not be used "as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness".
From: The Independent

27.12.2007 Cancer is becoming an increasing problem for developing countries, and issues commonly associated with poverty are making it worse, according to specialists taking part in an online seminar.

27.12.2007 Of the many strange permutations that the "war on terror" has thrown up, says S. Sayyid, perhaps none is stranger than that by which the distinctions between Left and Right have seemingly collapsed in relation to the "Muslim question".
From Muslim News

27.12.2007 Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto was killed in an apparent suicide attack at a Pakistan Peoples Party rally in Rawalpindi today.
From Associated Press of Pakistan
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27.12.2007 The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia has called for the release of two abducted female staff members of Doctors Without Borders.
From UN News

27.12.2007 The terror of destruction by nuclear missiles ready to be launched at the touch of a button has given way to the disturbing possibility of global warming going past the point of no return, and this is turning traditional international coalitions and geopolitical concepts upside down.