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World Notes: Bulgaria, Romania, Africa, Israel, Nicaragua, China, Cuba

November 2, 2009 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Stars and Stripes, the U.S. Army weekly, reported last month that two new U.S. military bases are under construction in Bulgaria and Romania at costs respectively of $60 and $50 million.

‘District 9’ — profoundly racist

October 23, 2009 By John Woodford

What D. W. Griffiths did to U.S. history in his technically magnificent but thematically racist "Birth of a Nation," Neill Blomkamp does to Africa in the profoundly racist "District 9."

South American & African countries hold historic meeting

October 7, 2009

Leaders of more than 60 South American and African countries met on Margarita Island, Venezuela, last month, raising the possibility of a new bloc of nations that can reduce their dependence on the U.S. and other...

Military legacy at root of recent violence in Guinea

October 5, 2009 By Dennis Laumann

The people of Guinea are looking to institutions like the UN and the African Union to help after the country was seized by recent military-instigated violence.

Fighting rages in heart of Mogadishu

August 22, 2009 By Paul Haste

Somalia's civil war is intensifying as Islamist insurgents hit back at government attacks on rebel-held territory.