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One glance at a modern map is enough to understand why Nusaybin is a hotspot in today's world. Lying in southeast Turkey, it looks across the border at its southerly reflection, Qamishi is northeast Syria ; its main east west highway hosts an endless convey of tankers with their precious cargo heading out from Erbil in oil-rich Iraqi Kurdistan into oil poor Turkey
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133005
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2014.
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When Nigel Farage and his crop of UKIP MEPs turned their backs on a chamber-orchestra performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the summer opening of the European Parliament, even sympathisers winced.
As political point scoring went, presenting so loutish a cold shoulder to a masterpiece of western music showed a jarring lack of courtesy, especially since those involved were not, it seemed, planning to reject the attached salary.
It was a sorry protest in that it showed a brazen disregard not merely for 'EU regulations' but for one of the grand peaks of European culture. So far as Britain is concerned, people - and ideas - have been drifting from Europe since the passing of the Ice Age. Not all were nice; not all were brilliant; not all were welcome. But Britain's population is a rich old stew of Iberian, Celtic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Danish and Norman folk - even before we include the more varied migrations of the past hundred years. -
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ID:
132996
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2014.
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In a world of flashpoints and European defence cuts the alliance needs strengthening, when the British government offered to host the NATO summit in Wales on September,4-5, few foresav that this would be a defining moment in the history of the Atlantic Alliance.
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133002
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2014.
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For each country the orange area and the figure in light type represent the percentage of migrants in the population in 1990. The red area, with the bold figure, shows the proportion in 2013. In these UN figures, migrants are defined as those born outside their country of residence, including refugees
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133004
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2014.
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In little more than two decades, Germany has undergone an extraordinary transformation in attitudes towards immigration.
In the early 1990s, as the recently reunified nation was facing a surge in migrants from the wreckage of the former Soviet Union, and a wave of refugees from civil war in the Balkans, the consensus was that 'Germany is not a country of immigration'.
Migrant workers who had flocked to join the German economic miracle in previous decades from Turkey, Greece, Italy and North Africa, were regarded as gastarbeiter - guest workers - who were expected to return home when their jobs were done.
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132993
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2014.
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It is the first such paper the Chinese government has produced since the 1997 handover, and its critics see it as a unilateral re-framing by China of the concept of One Country, Two systems, the late Deng Xiaoping's formula for the co-existence of Hong Kong's capitalism with Beijing's socialism with Chinese characteristics.
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ID:
132994
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2014.
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The political and social environment among the Sunni rebels was primed for insurgency by 2013, if not before.
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133003
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2014.
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Italy is at the very centre of the Mediterranean, both physically and in geopolitical terms. During the communist era, this was a great advantage and Italy's south was viewed as a kind of NATO aircraft carrier. Today, Italy is the affordable mirage that draws desperate people from sub-Saharan Africa and from battered countries of the Middle East.
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132999
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2014.
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Fifty year ago, on August 13, 1964 Gwynne Evans and Peter Allen were hanged. They had been convicted of the murder of John West of his home in Cumbria during a robbery four month earlier. The men were sentenced to suffer death in the manner authorized by law: Evan was hanged 8am in Strangeway Prison, Manchester, Allen in Walton Prison, Liverpool, at the same of the same day.
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133001
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2014.
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Europe has emerged as one of the world's two major destination regions for immigrants since the 1990s. Today, there are 49.9 million international migrants in the European Economic Area, just slightly less than 50 million in North America. Europe is clearly a continent on the move, but it is equally clear that many Europeans are ill at ease with this.
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ID:
132991
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2014.
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It is oddity of President Obama's foreign policy that it is both unpopular and popular. On the face of it is both unpopular on the face of it, the polls reflect widespread disillusion. An NBC/Wall Street Journal survey conducted in June suggested that just 37 per cent of Americans approved of Obama's handling of foreign policy - an all time low for him. These findings prompt republications to talk of weakness and drift.
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132998
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2014.
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Thomas Raines assesses strategy option for Europe's non-aligned states flirting with NATO membership. Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with neutrality prudent foreign policy, at least for the young American republic amid hostilities in Europe.
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ID:
132997
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2014.
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Military manoeuvres took the Kremlin by surprise but the government has a mountain to climb. To those who accept Vladimir Putin's view of Ukraine as an artificial state, the routing of pro-Russian insurgent from their stronghold in Slavyansk on July 5 might have come as a shock. It certainly appears to have surprised the Kremlin.
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