SUDAN - Sudanese Protest War Crimes Case Against Pres At Scripted Rally In Capital.
Thousands of people took to the streets of Sudan's tense capital in a carefully choreographed protest against the expected request by the International Criminal Court to arrest Pres Omar Hassan al-Bashir on war crimes charges. Students and members of the ruling National Congress Party were bused to the center...

Darfur cries for justice.
Byline: The Register-Guard The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court had no choice but to request an arrest warrant for Sudan's president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir. To do otherwise would have made a mockery of the court and its pursuit of justice for genocide and crimes against...

Sudan's Bashir Joins Syria's Assad In Providing Arab Rulers With New Lessons.
*** Assad Thinks He Has Got A Way Out Of The Trap Set In The Lebanese Murder Cases - A French Plan Which Will Get The UN Court To Focus On Mid-Level Actors Paying The Price, While He's Set For A Bigger Role In Line With Western Interest In...

Russia's new cold war.
RUSSIA'S onslaught against Georgia is a challenge to the West. Georgia has performed the successful experiment of transforming itself from a backward and corrupt Soviet republic into a democracy. Its president, Mikhail Saakashvili, and its people have aligned themselves enthusiastically with the West. Russian forces are now...

Words in the news.
Below are some key words used in this issue of Current Events. Communist (page 5) Communists subscribe to a system of politics and economics in which private property is eliminated and citizens share all goods equally. German philosopher Karl Marx developed the foundation of modern...

Cold War II: it isn't just Georgia that's in danger.
THE Russian invasion of Georgia is an ominous portent. Georgia is too small a state to be a threat to Russia, and the composition of its government is of only marginal importance to the Kremlin. Yet here are Dmitri Medvedev, the Russian president, and his Siamese twin Vladimir Putin,...

Georgia crisis prompts U.S. to cancel nuclear deal with Russia.
In the remote Caucasus, the Georgian crisis drags on, with Georgia's President Saakashvili, emboldened by Western support, continuing to goad the Russian bear. And Western governments are vowing to force Moscow to yield to Georgia's demands. Saakashvili, let it be remembered, started a war to retake South Ossetia, a...

The CF's new CASW system.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Last month Ottawa Citizen reporter David Pugliese posted an op-ed on his Defence Watch blog that the question "Does it make sense to get rid of the 60mm mortar?" The genesis for his query was the fact that the 60mm mortars are slated to be...

The art of conversation; Dialogue at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
9780801887840 The art of conversation; Dialogue at the Woodrow Wilson Center. Seay, George Liston. Ed. by Peter J. Bean. Johns Hopkins U. Press 2008 259 pages $19.95 Paperback E840 Seay has...

Repairing the damage; possibilities and limits of transatlantic consensus.
9780415418690 Repairing the damage; possibilities and limits of transatlantic consensus. Ed. by Dana H. Allin et al. Routledge 2007 103 pages $28.95 Paperback Adelphi paper; no.389 JZ5588 The transatlantic...