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088103
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2009.
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Forty-one years later, and the spirit, if not the fervour, of May 1968 lives on. Then, over a month of student-led protests and a general strike crippled France and popular Marxist revolution appeared a real possibility in a Western European country.
This year, France experienced 283 protest rallies on Labour Day in cities from Marseilles to Bordeaux, Grenoble and Paris. Although not as dramatic as 1968, the estimate by one of France's largest trades unions of 1.2 million protesters was five times higher than the protests in May 2008.
In addition, compared to 1968, the 2009 Labour Day protests were more widespread throughout Europe. On 1 May in Germany, union leaders estimated 484,000 people demonstrated in 400 rallies across the country. In Berlin, 237 police were injured after running battles with stone-throwing activists, leading to 289 demonstrators being arrested and five cars torched. In Istanbul, more than 100 protesters were arrested and dozens of people injured as supermarkets and banks were deliberately targeted. In Athens, rioting was dispersed by tear gas, and in Linz in Austria, 20 people were injured and five arrested.
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088107
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2009.
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The democratic republic of Congo has shown a willingness for rapprochement with its traditional enemies, Uganda and Rwanda,
by joining them in two operations targeting rebels in the Great Lakes.
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088108
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2009.
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There are many perpetrator and motivations for kidnapping in Latin America.
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088105
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2009.
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Suicide attacks have come to characterise jihadist campaigns in various theatres. From Bali to Baghdad, Jerusalem to Jalalabad, the images of suicide bombers, often accompanied by martyrdom videos, have become synonymous with violent Islamist movements.
However, as Robert Pape demonstrated in his 2005 book Dying to win - the strategic logic of suicide terrorism, suicide attacks are not integral to Islamist or Islamic campaigns, but are simply a relatively modern tactic that has seemingly proven effective against post-industrial militaries.
Pape argued that "there is little connection between suicide terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism". Rather, groups sponsoring suicide tactics are "trying to establish or maintain political self-determination by compelling a democratic power to withdraw from territories they claim".
The University of Chicago professor was largely correct in this assertion. However, since 2005 the use of suicide attacks has expanded considerably, and the motivations for the tactics have diversified.
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088109
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2009.
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Russia's second city, st Petersburg, is the home of the transational Tambov crime network,
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088110
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2009.
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Sanctions are a frequent yet controversial tool used by the international community in dealing with proliferant sates and nuclear non-compliance
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088104
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2009.
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The arrest of the Sons of Iraq leader, Adil al-Mashhadani, in Baghdad's Fadhil district on 28 March sparked fighting between local Sunni Arab citizens and federal Iraqi security forces. Although the clashes were less significant than media coverage suggested, the incident caused a ripple of nervousness to reverberate throughout the Sunni Arab Awakening movements (Sahwa) and their citizens' security groups, the Sons of Iraq.
The fear is that the Sons of Iraq, who were recruited by US forces and often comprise former Iraqi military members, will be poorly treated by the Shia-led federal government, creating resentment within the substantially numbered and well-armed group.
In reality, the majority of the Sons of Iraq are not looking to incite a sectarian insurgency. Nonetheless, as US forces gradually remove themselves from key functions in the reconciliation process, perceptions of sectarian score-settling are almost as significant as the realities on the ground.
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088106
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2009.
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Three months after seizing power in an anti-establishment coup, Guinea's military junta announced a timetable for turning the country into a democracy.
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