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The fighting in eastern Ukraine now resembles a gang war, lawless and unconstrained.
It both protects and restores the forest cover of peatlands that have become a major source of carbon emissions; it provides an effective mechanism for fighting corruption; and it improves the effectiveness of official development assistance.
Taking concrete action now will reinvigorate the momentum of fighting climate change and help restore faith in international cooperation.
The greatest successes in fighting global poverty have come from China and India, two countries that have largely pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps.
In Switzerland, Thomas Minder, the head of the cosmetics company Trybol, is fighting the same battle, and demanding a national referendum.
Rather than fighting another ill-fated battle in Washington, it is more promising to encourage many more states to exercise their prerogatives.
The traditional battle between labor and capital has been about the latter, with workers and owners fighting over their share of the pie.
Several countries are pursuing policies that emphasize prevention and treatment rather than repression – and refocusing their repressive measures on fighting the real enemy: organized crime.
Indeed, he devoted almost the entire speech to the positive role of government in providing education, fighting climate change, rebuilding infrastructure, taking care of the poor and disabled, and generally investing in the future.
The Spanish RevivalMUNICH – After fighting for its life for the last two years, Spain’s economy finally seems to have moved out of intensive care.
He can hardly afford to start another round of fighting that would destroy everything again.
Unfortunately for many African countries, freedom and independence ended up in the hands of a few who had tasted and become addicted to the repressive practices that Africans had spent decades fighting.
President Vladimir Putin’s pretense that Russian troops were not participating in the fighting was all but shattered recently, when a Russian fighter in Donetsk confirmed to the BBC Russian service that they are playing a decisive role in rebel advances.
Instead of fighting on behalf of political and religious liberty, we risk engaging in a conflict with the false images that the terrorists have created.
The US has now stayed on for almost ten years, fighting an insurgency concentrated among Afghanistan’s Pakhtun population.
“We helped to create the problem that we are now fighting,” then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted in 2010.
Or does the state take charge when the market fails to perform socially necessary functions – such as fighting wars or maintaining full employment?
There is reason to hope that some of the EU’s member states will embark on this venture in fighting crime and terrorism, defense matters, or in financial and budgetary harmonization.
Instead, certain members now do a disproportionate amount of the fighting, funding, and dying.
The Communist Party must keep the Chinese economy growing (even if more slowly), while fighting rampant corruption and responding to citizens’ demands.
I recently watched the film “Charlie Wilson’s War,” which relates how the United States came to arm the Mujahideen fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan.
Indeed, earlier detection, many believe, logically must give patients an advantage in fighting the disease.
Are they not one with those who died fighting for the Spanish Republic in the 1930’s, who liberated Budapest in 1956 and ended fascism in Spain and Portugal in the 1970’s?
Because activists were reluctant to begin campaigning while rebels were still fighting, they held back on forming political parties.
Cities such as Misurata have been ravaged by the fighting and will have to be rebuilt.
First, if “soft power” means exercising influence because “others want what you want,” as Joseph Nye puts it, then women the world over want what American feminists began fighting for three generations ago.
The war has continued for so long, in part, because both the Syrian government and the armed groups it is fighting believed that they would ultimately prevail.
The European Union, the United States, and other interested countries hope that Syria’s warring parties will stop fighting each other, and turn their weapons instead on ISIS and other extremist groups, such as Jabhat al-Nusra.
As drug lords were arrested, the equilibrium between gangs was destroyed, paving the way to a war between the Sinaloa and Gulf cartels – the two largest – which has generated enormous violence, as well as sharp US protests because of the impact of the fighting along the border.
The northern state of Kachin – which is rich in natural resources, and serves as a vital transport route to China – has experienced fierce fighting since a 17-year truce between the Burmese military and the Kachin Independence Army collapsed in 2011.
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