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Fifth World Water Forum: Paper Tiger or Path for Progress on Mideast Water Crisis?

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Confronting Iran: Addressing the Need for a Coherent Foreign Policy

Rhetoric between Tehran and Washington is heating up again. The situation is tense as President George W. Bush and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spar over the recent confrontation between five Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessels and a U.S. navy warship in the Straight of Hormuz. Vice Adm. Kevin Cosgriff, commander of the Bahrain-based U.S. 5th Fleet, reported receiving threatening radio transmissions as the Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessels closed in on the U.S. vessel on Sunday, January 6, 2008, claiming that the latter would "explode in a couple of minutes... more »

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Amid Turmoil in Somalia, a Hint of Hope

Somalia is becoming increasingly unstable. Fighting between Ethiopian-backed Somali government troops and insurgents has ravaged for months. Roadside bombings, kidnappings and political assassinations regularly occur. Persistent violence has lead to mass exodus and scarcity of food in the war-torn Mogadishu.