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NEWS ABOUT: sovereignty

sovereignty stories: 11 news summaries
OPINION

 Parade, Jubilation Follow 
 US Pullout of Iraqi Cities 

Maliki warns media not to question his forces' abilities

Jun 30, 09 7:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iraq held its first full military parade since the fall of Saddam today—now known as Sovereignty Day—to celebrate the official withdrawal of US troops from cities and towns. The proceedings took place inside the Green Zone and were screened on television, but several media outlets, including the New ... More »

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Iraq • Baghdad • Green Zone • Nouri al-Maliki • Iraq death toll • sovereignty • parade • transfer of power

(Newser) - Republican groups have already prepared dossiers and attack strategies on a host of possible Obama Supreme Court nominees, the New York Times reports. Ten memos obtained by the Times—all about female judges and scholars—focus on records of abortion rights, gay rights, and the citing of foreign... More »

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gay rights • abortion rights • sovereignty • US Supreme Court • judicial nominations • Obama administration • President Obama • conservative movement

(Newser) - Canada has a message for Europe: Keep your mitts off our Arctic. The government has begun a multi-pronged strategy that combines tough diplomatic talk with a flurry of cultural events across the continent that stress the nation's long ties to the region, the Globe and Mail reports. Canada knows it... More »

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Russia • European Union • Canada • United States • Arctic • sovereignty • foreign policy

OPINION

As Crisis Bites, UK Changes Stance on Tibet

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

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... More »

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

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

Damascus closes American school, cultural center

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... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • terrorism • Syria • diplomacy • sovereignty • attack

 Cheney Set
 to Visit
 Georgia

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

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... More »

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

analysis

Post-Soviet States No Longer Russian Puppets

Reactions to Georgia show self-interest

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,... More »

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

Pakistan: US
Not Hunting
bin Laden on
Our Turf

Minister: would raise 'sovereignty issues'

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... More »

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

Britain to Claim Antarctic Seabed

Bid follows this summer's Arctic territory scramble

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,... More »

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

Iraqis Irate
Over Senate Partition Vote

Resolution pushing autonomous regions prompts backlash

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... More »

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

Look Out, Santa: Russia Claims North Pole

Rich oil and gas reserves lie beneath ownership dispute

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... More »

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

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