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With the Copenhagen
climate summit ready to kick-off this week, the World Bank has released an
interesting report stating that developing economies including The Philippines
will bear about 80 percent of the potential cost of climate

The big news today is obviously the Obama administration’s
decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. The news has been
greeted soberly, as Taegen Goddard notes
on his Political Wire blog:

‘Unlike most of President Obama’s

Well, seems like Australia’s Liberal Party is determined to follow in Britain’s Conservative Party’s footsteps down the path of self-disruption, if not self-destruction. Following opposition to a deal made with the government over an emissions tradin

Well, looks like I may have jumped the gun in citing Australia as an example of why there might be some hope for the Copenhagen climate summit next month after the government there reached a deal Friday with the opposition over an emissions trading s

The Philippine Daily Inquirer ran a powerful op-ed today on the dangers posed by dynastic politics. It argues:A political dynasty requires no membership initiation, no formation programmes; membership is, quite literally, a matter of DNA.’In a politi

As I mentioned earlier this week, I wanted to get an Indian perspective on the Obama-Singh talks in Washington. Our India contributor Madhav Nalapat gave me his take on the visit:In a party still filled with Cold Warriors nostalgic for the US-bashing

Driving home my point about the dangers of small arms, it seems the death toll in this week’s massacre in the southern Philippines has risen to 57.Murder charges have been filed against Datu Unsayalso Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr., who handed himself in f

Today marks the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Mumbai, in which 166 people were killed and hundreds more injured.Interestingly, much of the commentary is focusing on a sense that the Indian government has failed to make adequate progre

Perhaps I’ve just got food on the brain with Associate Editor Ulara Nakagawa blogging today about the implications of South Korea’s wayward coverage of Obama’s eating habits on his recent trip to Korea. But Steve Clemons has an interesting angle over

Seems like there’s a bright spot in the clouds that had been forming over next month’s Copenhagen climate summit, with the Australian government apparently having struck a deal with the opposition over a revised carbon trading scheme aimed at reducin

Image contact: [email protected] Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may be the beneficiary of all the fanfare that comes with Barack Obama’s first state dinner in Washington today, but the spectacle marks the first time in a while India has bee

Looks like the next round of ‘Make a pledge, break a pledge’ is set to start with North Korea, with news that Barack Obama is sending his special envoy to Pyongyang in an effort to get the country back to the table for six-way talks.One of the most i