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What’s behind the coup in Mali?

March 27, 2012 By Emile Schepers

On March 22, soldiers of the Republic of Mali in West Africa, led by junior officers, carried out a coup d'état against the elected president, Amadou Toumani Touré.

Vote suppression takes place in Canada too

March 23, 2012 By Tim Pelzer

The United States and Mexico have not been the only places where the right wing has committed electoral fraud to win elections.

Europe and Africa: a genocidal history

March 21, 2012 By Emile Schepers

During the "scramble for Africa" at the end of the 19th century, Germany had entered the game partly for economic and partly for geopolitical reasons.

U.S. and Korea implement free trade agreement

March 19, 2012 By Pedro Conceicao

A long-awaited and controversial trade pact between the U.S. and the Republic of Korea came into effect on March 15.

All hail the (German) chief

March 19, 2012 By Victor Grossman

It's hard to decide: which article on Germany's new president, East Germany's (the former German Democratic Republic's) pastor Joachim Gauck, was more misleading.