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Alan Keenan is the Sri Lanka director of the International Crisis Group whose recent report outlines a consolidation of power in Colombo, calling for an international response to an apparently authoritarian turn.

Nonetheless, the National Electoral Council, at the request of the Capriles campaign, is auditing another 12,000 of the remaining 16,000 ballot boxes in the same way. But the opposition decided to boycott this audit, after it first agreed to it. The ...

Z Karin Laub The Associated Pres Arizona Daily Star 19 minutes ago • Karin Laub The Associated Pres Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won't step down before elections and that the United States has no right ...

US-SYRIA-CRISIS-MUTILATION: BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian rebel commander who rose to international notoriety for footage of him cutting out and eating the organ of a slain soldier said he was willing to face trial for his actions if President ...

Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, recently gave a speech at the Economic Club of New York in which she outlined steps needed to avoid future global crisis. Here is the text of the speech: Good afternoon. Let me begin by thanking the Economic Club of New York - and especially chairman Roger Ferguson and president Jan Hopkins - for inviting me today. I know that Wendell Wilkie - a presidential candidate back in 1940 - once described the Economic Club as "the ...

The only way to end the Syrian crisis is a negotiated political solution and the Geneva-2 international conference gives a perfect ground for such talks. The Syrian issue topped the agenda of a meeting between Russia's President Vladimir Putin, ...

"While the cross border M&A volumes have not yet returned to pre-crisis level, we are witnessing an unprecedented transformation of local market firms and dealmakers into global M&A experts whose intimate knowledge and expertise in the cultural, ...

UNITED NATIONS, May 15 (Xinhua) -- President of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) Vuk Jeremic on Wednesday called on the international community to help kick off a political process led by the Syrians themselves to end the two-year conflict in Syria.

YAYLADAGI, Turkey Facing one of the worlds largest refugee crises in decades, Turkish officials are urgently appealing for international financial assistance and calling on wealthy nations, particularly the United States and the countries of Europe, ...