A brief list of news for the day:
Deadliest single attack on US forces in more than a year kills 9 and wounds 20 > News at: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/341AE628-C388-4CF3-92FE-3973F6CE45E1.htm
Sunnis protest against Baghdad’s ‘prison wall’. About 2,000 demonstrated. The Iraqi Prime Minister calls for construction of the wall to stop while a US spokesman stated that “construction of security barriers across Baghdad will continue without exception”. > News at: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2481030.ece
Into the Iraqi diaspora > News at: http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=188872
Campaign for elected UN assembly launched internationally > News at: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article2474470.ece
Opposition rejects Nigerian poll result > News at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/world/africa/24nigeria.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin (may require login)
Canadian opposition parties are calling for the country’s defence minister to resign following allegations that detainees were tortured in Afghanistan. > News at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6586951.stm
British Navy to resume Gulf boarding operations which were suspended after Iran detailed 15 Britons. > News at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2064511,00.html
Shimon Peres’, book review of a man who wishes to be president > News at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/books/17erla.html
Russia strongly indicates that it might veto a UN proposal for Kosovo independence. > News at: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070424.wrussskosovo0424/BNStory/International/home
China to overtake US as top greenhouse gas emitter this year. > News at: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/04/24/china-emissions.html
“Dubai is unique: a city whose decentred multiplicity informs and accommodates everything it touches, from the role of Islam to that of global capitalism in the region. Faisal Devji presents an acute analysis of a place where tradition functions not to forge a non-existent nationality, but to accommodate and naturalise change. In this, he suggests, Dubai is a global city of the post-national future. ” > News at: http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-vision_reflections/dubai_cosmopolis_4543.jsp
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