The World Outside Westminster – Burma, Spain, Santorum and the Atlantic depths
Tom Rouse looks back at the week’s main stories from around the world, including the latest from Burma, Spain, Syria and the US Presidential elections.
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The World Outside Westminster – Muty in Mali, elections in Burma, Assad and the Republicans
Chris Tarquini looks back at the week’s main stories from around the world, including the latest from Mail, Burma, Syria and the US Presidential elections.
The World Outside Westminster – Cameron, Karzai and the Republicans
Tom Rouse looks back at the world’s news this week, including David Cameron’s visit to the US, plus the latest from the GOP race, Afghanistan and Syria.
The World Outside Westminster – Joseph Kony: World’s Most Wanted?
The focus of the world has been on a viral video, ‘Kony 2012’, which exposes the actions of Joseph Kony, leader of the Lords Resistance Army in central Africa.
Why haven’t we intervened in Syria? Is Iraq to blame? Is Libya?
Ben Mitchell argues that the examples of Iraq and Libya are scaring western governments from intervening in Syria – and maybe that’s a good thing, he says.
The World Outside Westminster: One less veteran on the frontline
Chris Tarquini presents the news from the rest of the world this week.
“One of the finest foreign correspondents of her generation” – Marie Colvin, 1956-2012
Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin was killed today in the Syrian city of Homs, alongside French photographer Rémi Ochlik. She was just 55 years old.
Liberal intervention shouldn’t be confined to the West
The Fabian Society’s James Hallwood argues for a worldwide responsibility for liberal intervention.
World Outside Westminster: Obama’s glee at the Republican implosion
Tom Rouse presents the news from USA, Maldives, Syria, and Europe.
Syria: There is no simple solution
Direct military intervention in Syria is neither desirable nor possible; in sum, there’s no simple solution, writes Left Foot Forward’s George Irvin.