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As Crisis Bites, UK Changes Stance on Tibet

After a century of hedging, Britain says region is part of China

New York Times New York Times Nov 25, 08 8:25 AM CST
(Newser) - Last month Gordon Brown called on China to pump more money into the International Monetary Fund, whose coffers are nearly bare as more nations succumb to the global financial crisis. Only a few days later, writes Robert Barnett in the New York Times , the British government quietly announced a change to a century-old policy: It explicitly recognized Tibet as a part of China. More »

More about:  China • Gordon Brown • Tibet • Dalai Lama • Tibetan independence • David Miliband • sovereignty

US: Attack Was 'Warning'
to Jihadist-Friendly Syria

Damascus closes American school, cultural center

Times (UK) Times (UK) Oct 28, 08 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US says its attack Sunday on a Syrian village was a warning to Damascus to take more action against Iraq-bound militants. “We are left with no choice but to take matters into our own hands,” an official tells the Times of London. Washington recently praised Syria for curtailing the number of jihadists crossing the border, but sees weapons and money moving with little interference. More »

More about:  Iraq • Bush administration • terrorism • Syria • diplomacy • attack • sovereignty

 Cheney Set
 to Visit
 Georgia

VP to shore up ties with embattled nation, emphasize 'common security interests'

Associated Press Associated Press Aug 25, 08 12:33 PM CDT
(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 »

More about:  Russia • Georgia • Dick Cheney • Ukraine • invasion • sovereignty • Azerbaijan

analysis

Post-Soviet States No Longer Russian Puppets

Reactions to Georgia show self-interest

BBC BBC Aug 22, 08 1:56 PM CDT
(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 »

More about:  Russia • Georgia • NATO • Ukraine • invasion • Belarus • sovereignty

Pakistan: US
Not Hunting
bin Laden on
Our Turf

Minister: would raise 'sovereignty issues'

Associated Press Associated Press Jul 13, 08 8:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistan's foreign minister said yesterday that his country has no plans to allow US or other foreign troops into the country to search for Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda members, AP reports. Shah Mahmood Qureshi says that Pakistani troops, plus "grassroots" efforts to stop terrorism before it can begin, are sufficient measures for combating militant activity. More »

More about:  Pakistan • al-Qaeda • terrorism • US military • Osama bin Laden • Pakistan militants • sovereignty

Britain to Claim Antarctic Seabed

Bid follows this summer's Arctic territory scramble

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

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

Iraqis Irate
Over Senate Partition Vote

Resolution pushing autonomous regions prompts backlash

CNN CNN Oct 1, 07 10:10 AM CDT
(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 »

More about:  Iraq • Joe Biden • Moqtada al-Sadr • Sunni • Kurds • US Embassy • Shia • Sam Brownback • sovereignty • partition

Look Out, Santa: Russia Claims North Pole

Rich oil and gas reserves lie beneath ownership dispute

Daily Telegraph (UK) Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 1, 07 12:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Russian ships will arrive at the North Pole today as part of Moscow's effort to claim a 1,240-mile area of the Arctic—and with it, more than $2 trillion in oil and gas reserves. The Telegraph reports that the fleet will deposit a Russian flag at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean in a symbolic assertion of underwater ownership. More »

More about:  Russia • climate change • oil • Vladimir Putin • Canada • Arctic • Denmark • Arctic oil • North Pole • sovereignty

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