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emen In Saudi Arabia For Talks. • Increased Chinese Ties Imperil US Arms Sales To UAE. • Top Qatari Diplomat Meets With Egypt's Foreign Minister In Cairo. • Coup Leader Again Takes Control Of Mali. • Somali Leader Say Deal Reached On Elections. THE BIG PICTURE • Headlines From Today's Front Pages.

Do More To Save Burma. The Washington Post (5/25, 10.52M) editorializes that the "unmitigated brutality" of the military junta that seized power in Burma through a coup in February "has provoked a relatively strong international response. ... But Western governments are still holding back from measur

hat is after all the Bush/neocon/democracy activist line. Take U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's 2005 speech at the American University in Cairo or Bush's second inaugural address -- both reviled by "realists." It would be nice if some of the critics now admitted that such speeches were prop

in East Asia. The opening of a new base in Australia is a powerful symbol of America's enduring strategic presence in the region. The opening with Burma obviously has both strategic motives and strategic implications. He also has a fairly good record in responding to the Arab Awakening. The Obama a

emen In Saudi_Arabia For Talks. • Increased Chinese Ties Imperil US Arms Sales To UAE. • Top Qatari Diplomat Meets With Egypt's Foreign Minister In Cairo. • Caup Leader Again Takes Control Of Mali • Somali Leader Say Deal Reached On Elections. THE BIG PICTURE • Headlines From Today's Front Pages.

Do More To Save Burma. The Washington Post (5/25, 10.52M) editorializes that the "unmitigated brutality" of the military junta that seized power in Burma through a coup in February "has provoked a relatively strong international response. ... But Western governments are still holding back from measur

helicopters in the skies and bulldozers on the streets, stormed thousands of the Brothers' supporters encamped beside a mosque and a university in Cairo. Hundreds were killed and nearly 3,000 injured and the violence spread to other cities, including Alexandria and Suez (see article). A score of ch

ation to choose words, and policies, according to their consequences, not according to some abstract moral scale. If praising dictators in Sudan or Burma, as the administration did at times, encouraged them to reconcile with their rivals, then they should be praised. Cutting ties to demonstrate the p

nsensus is always dangerous, and it is worth looking more closely at what it is based on. Mr Ahmadinejad is the first Iranian leader to set foot in Cairo since the deposed Shah of Iran was given refuge in Cairo, where he died and received a state funeral. The two countries have not had diplomatic re

eting in Asia: In Japan, the percentage of women between 30 and 34 who have never married rose from 7.2 percent in 1970 to 26.6 percent in 2000; in Burma, it rose from 9.3 percent to 25.9 percent; in Thailand, from 8.1 percent to 16.1 percent; in South Korea, from 1.4 percent to 10.7 percent. EFTA00