In the end, it wasn’t even close.
“We concede and congratulate the people who have won the elections,” Mushahid Syed Hussain, general secretary of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q, the political party of Pervez Musharraf.
While the final results will not be known until later today or tomorrow, the margin of victory is so large that the […]
The United States formally recognized Kosovo’s independence Monday, followed shortly by the major powers of Europe. In the ever complex world of international diplomacy, this creates a political problem for Serbia’s historical and key ally, Russia.
Both Russia and Serbia have opposed the move by Kosovo. Â
Today, Kosovo sent out letters to 192 countries seeking formal recognition […]
Today, Pakistani’s are braving the threat of rampant terrorist attacks and head to the polls in one of the most critical elections in its history. If the election tilts towards a new parliament, it could drive Pervez Musharraf, considered by the Bush Administration to be an ally in the war on terror, from power.
As […]
It has been a long and often tumultuous 10 years for Kosovo, the Serbian province, that was the scene of ethnic cleansing, a NATO lead air campaign, and political instability.
But today is Kosovo’s day.
Today, Kosovo’s parliament gathered to announce their official independence. Prime Minister Hashim Thaci read aloud the document, which is written in […]
For the second time in his presidency, George Bush is visiting Africa.
Perhaps the most positive enduring legacy of the Bush Admininstration will be the funding it alloted for wildly successful programs in Africa that have helped those struggling with HIV/AIDS and other aliments common in impoverished nations.
Bush wants his trip to focus on the successes […]
We got a bunch of emails this week asking us how iConflict is going to be different from CNN’s iReport, a citizen journalism project they unveiled this week. Frankly, it will be a lot different and that’s a good thing.
Unlike every other citizen journalism site, iConflict has a focused niche - conflict and crises. […]
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Progress in Kenya has been made.
Today, Kenya’s rival parties have agreed to an independent review of the disputed presidential election. Since his arrival in the region Kofi Annan has been working furiously to find a way out of this conflict that has left more than 1,000 people dead.
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said flatly that the opposition parties in the upcoming February 18th election must accept the outcome results and not to resort to any agitation should the election not go their way. He also asserted the elections will be free and fair.
“They should not be under any illusion that they will […]
Hezbollah TV announced the death of Imad Mughniyeh, a senior Hezbollah commander implicated in some of the most high-profile international terrorist attacks of the last 25 years. According to reports he died in an explosion in Syria.
Mughniyeh was involved in such terrorist activities the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, which […]
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Barack Obama can now lay claim to the most amount of delegates in the democratic primary with his sweep of the 3 primaries today. He now has the money, the momentum, (and secretly) the media on his side as they begin their second draft stories on the demise […]