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June 2007

Three years on, the farce of PM's African rapid reaction force 3 June 2007, The Sunday Telegraph

Tony Blair's grand plan to save Africa by military force has been quietly shelved after he performed a remarkable U-turn on his farewell tour of the continent last week.

Don't be so emotional, Russia tells UK and US over Darfur Envoy says the West must negotiate with Khartoum to end the bloodshed in Sudan 3 June 2007, The Sunday Telegraph

Russia has told Britain and America to stop being "so emotional'' about Darfur and to accept that they cannot force Sudan to find a peaceful solution to conflict in the region.

Peacekeeping Kurds accused of siding with the Sunnis 10 June 2007, The Sunday Telegraph

Kurdish soldiers brought in to keep apart rival sectarian groups in Baghdad have been drawn into bitter fighting with Shia militias, who accuse them of siding with their fellow Sunnis.

Survival of the fittest in Hong Kong 24 June 2007, The Sunday Telegraph

Ten years ago, as Britain handed over Hong Kong to the Chinese, the predictions for its future were uniformly bleak. So far, however, the pessimists have been proved wrong, reports Gethin Chamberlain

 

 

 

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