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Over two hundred years have passed since its Independence, and Haiti remains trailing behind the developing world. Now that we have entered a new and strange phase in Haiti, perhaps the lowest ever, from sporadic kidnappings, murders, to a society of lawlessness, should we sit and wait for solutions from a dubious International Community? Or

Despite Washington's call for democracy, several Iranian dissidents have been unable to get visas to travel to the U.S.

Reuters - The United States, France and Britain circulated a U.N. resolution on Thursday that would unilaterally establish a tribunal to try suspects in the 2005 murder of a former Lebanese premier and 22 others.

Bismarck faced a diplomatic crisis in November 1863 over the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein; they were claimed by Denmark and by Frederick von Augustenburg, a German duke. Prussian public opinion strongly favoured Augustenburg's claim; however, Bismarck took an unpopular step by insisting that the territories legally belonged to the Danish monarch under the London