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Korean commandos storm ship. Eight pirates have been killed and six captured during a rescue by south Korean commandos on board the 11,500-tonne Samho Jewelry cargo ship, which had been carrying chemical from the U.A.E.
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The bodies of the pirates have not been found. The Gulf of Aden, between Yemen and Somalia, is one of the world's busiest shipping routes and has become a hot spot for pirate attacks. source: BBC Ed. 21.01.11
Every day of every year, 24/7 as some like to say, thousands of bits of information traverse the globe. Text, audio, images. Typically most of the media coverage we receive comes from a handful of large news agencies. As a result these agencies often dominate our perception of the world. I am aware none of this is new to the reader. However, the world is changing fast. People want to know what and in particular why things are is happening outside of their borders at an increasing rate. They want analysis and they want relative reporting with a truly global scope. Here we will, in the coming months, attempt to provide one source from which the reader can research further or not, as he or she so wishes. We shall trawl the major sources for the key items of the day, attempt to give a balanced background and analysis of events and also delve into the stories which are not being reported by the major distributors. In this age of transparency, and ‘scientific journalism’, the following areas will be given attention for the following reasons: Geopolitics- this zine is about what's happening in the world at the moment, this in relationship to major decisions being taken, or acts committed, which affect us all. Environment- it affects us, we're affecting it. Business- it's bigger than government. Art- it makes life worth living.
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PM names unity government to quell Tunisia unrest Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi brought opposition leaders into the coalition announced on Monday after the president fled to Saudi Arabia following weeks of violent street protests. But key 'old guard' figures kept their jobs, angering many. The wave of protests has hit stock and currency markets from Jordan to Morocco amid fears that the Tunisian unrest would spread abroad. source: Reuters Ed. 18.01.11
Everything is at Zero. South Sudan Lebanon no nearer to a resolution.. Following Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar have suspended efforts to broker a new government in Lebanon. Representatives from both countries have returned home to discuss the situation further with their leaders. Syrian delegates remain in Beirut. The collapse of the Lebanese government follows a UN investigation into the assassination in 2005 the then Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Hezbollah, left the government in protest at the implication that members of its organisation were somehow involved. According to the BBC and other sources, if the tribunal does implicate its members the organisation has vowed to retaliate. Ed. 20.01.11
The end of draconian measures.
‘There has been no development in South Sudan. We have no roads, no bridges, no water, no power, nothing at all, no hospitals, and no schools – everything is at zero.’ President Salva Kiir, Juba, 3 November 2011 An in depth report by the: T H E B R E N T H U RST F O U N DAT I O N investigating: 'The ability of the South – where ‘everything’, in the words of its President, ‘is at zero’ – to develop and improve the lives of its ten million people.'
Nigerian sitting President wins primary- Goodluck Nigera's sitting President Goodluck Jonathan who rose to power after the death of former President Umaru Yar'Adua, has won the his party's primary election as leader on the road to Nigeria's general election in April. Goodluck Jonathan has risen to the to with surprising ease after having come from nowhere. Aside from the goodluck he has experienced on the career ladder his success so far is
source: Huffington Post Finally the UK has reconsidered its terror detention laws. A law that at one point was trying to be pushed through in 2008 as a 42 day detention without trial ended up as 28 days and now finally has been reduced to 14 days. Ministers questioned the real security advantages and civil liberty implications of such a law.
probably measured most by the fact that he has managed to negotiate with the militants in the delta who are largely of the same Ijaw ethnic group into which President Jonathan was born. President Goodluck Jonathan is the first Nigerian President from the oil-rich Niger Delta Ed. 14.01.11
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Antony Riley, 22, January 2011 GLOBAL MATTERS 22.01.11
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