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  • August 2008

    • Cheney Set to Visit Georgia

      Associated Press  |  Aug 25, 08 12:33 PM CDT

      Cheney Set to Visit Georgia

      (Newser) - Dick Cheney will visit Georgia next week to strengthen ties with the battered US ally, the AP reports. The vice president will also visit Azerbaijan and Ukraine to emphasize the US commitment to the former Soviet republics, a White House spokesman said today in announcing the trip, which is to begin Sept. 2. More »

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      Russia  • Georgia  • Dick Cheney  • Ukraine  • invasion  • sovereignty  • Azerbaijan

    • Post-Soviet States No Longer Russian Puppets

      BBC  |  Aug 22, 08 1:56 PM CDT

      Post-Soviet States No Longer Russian Puppets

      (Newser) - Former cold warriors can be expected to see the Georgian conflict as signalling a return to simpler East-vs-West geopolitics, writes Bridget Kendall for the BBC. But the reaction of the post-Soviet states shows something very different: Former Soviet client states whose loyalty was assured 20 years ago—including Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Belarus—are now looking out for themselves first. More »

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      Russia  • Georgia  • NATO  • Ukraine  • invasion  • Belarus  • sovereignty

  • July 2008
  • October 2007

    • Britain to Claim Antarctic Seabed

      Guardian (UK)  |  Oct 17, 07 9:28 AM CDT

      Britain to Claim Antarctic Seabed

      (Newser) - Britain will submit a claim to the UN for 386,000 square miles of Antarctica, its foreign office said today, joining the international race to grab a piece of the mineral- and oil-rich territory as global warming makes it more accessible. The move violates a 1959 treaty, which Britain signed, that blocks new claims other than for scientific research, but it's based on proximity to the British Antarctic Territory, which was claimed in 1908 and contains two British scientific stations. More »

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      Great Britain  • climate change  • United Kingdom  • oil  • gas  • Antarctica  • natural gas  • natural resources  • sovereignty  • mineral resources

    • Iraqis Irate Over Senate Partition Vote

      CNN  |  Oct 1, 07 10:10 AM CDT

      Iraqis Irate Over Senate Partition Vote

      (Newser) - The Iraqi government is reacting angrily to a Senate resolution passed Thursday that the US push to divide the country into three autonomous regions—Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish—to reduce ethnic bloodshed. "No Iraqi is for dividing their country or for splitting it into three weak states, unable to survive," Iraqi's foreign minister declared to CNN. More »

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      Iraq  • Muqtada al-Sadr  • Joe Biden  • Sunni  • Kurds  • Shia  • US Embassy  • Sam Brownback  • sovereignty  • partition

  • August 2007

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