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Angelina Jolie in Darfur Not so recently ago, on December 10, Angelina Jolie published an interesting op-ed in Newsweek criticizing President Barack Obama for his inaction in Darfur. During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama publicly promised to take decisive measures to stop this genocide, lend logistical support for international troops and never abandon people, who [...] Florence Hartmann Since Karadzic was transferred to The Hague Tribunal in July 2008 to stand a trial for the genocide and war crimes, some knotty questions emerged. Two months after his transfer, the Prosecution’s Office issued a new indictment against the long time fugitive. The indictment of September 2008 says, in its paragraph 20, that [...] President Obama’s political team got some good news and some bad news at the start of December. The bad news is that Obama’s net approval rating, which had stabilized after a summer slide, hit an abrupt downdraft that sent his approval into negative territory for the first time. As I am writing this, on Monday, [...] War in Afghanistan Obama’s decision to boost U.S. troops in Afghanistan is probably his third proper decision in the office since his January inauguration (the first being the pardoning of a turkey for the Thanksgiving and the second his recent recognition of the presidential elections in Honduras). For those, who awarded Mr. Obama the Nobel [...] |
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