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  • AUSTRALIA

    Victory eludes both Israel and Hezbollah

    • Mihal Greener
    • 21 August 2006
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    Lebanon and its people have suffered incomprehensible devastation, and Israel has shown its enemies that it could not effectively combat an enemy as elusive as Hezbollah. The group has nevertheless been weakened, albeit to an uncertain extent.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Darfur's tenuous peace deal penned in blood

    • Ben Fraser
    • 07 August 2006

    Since the Darfur Peace Agreement was ratified in May, the Sudanese government has variously courted, confused and harangued the international community in an apparent successful effort to create discord in the peace process.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Setbacks in the War for Simple Pleasures

    • Michael Mullins & James Massola
    • 07 August 2006

    Our 'Simple Pleasures' series is not intended as light relief from the gravitas of many of the articles in Eureka Street. Instead, they ground our more serious commentaries, providing an insight into exactly what constitutes a better world for the human beings who live in it.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Compassion requires more courage than war

    • Katharina Weiss
    • 07 August 2006

    To fight wars we have to deny our own and others’ humanity. Israeli Defence Force commander General Dan Halutz was asked about his feelings when he piloted a plane dropping bombs on people in Gaza in 2002. His reply was that he felt 'a light bump to the plane'.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    On your bus

    • Grant Morgan, Anthony Ham, Matthew Albert, Steven Columbus
    • 07 July 2006

    On your bus, Kerala leads, Sudan in Australia, Coming to terms.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    In the skin of a tiger

    • Nick Lenaghan
    • 26 June 2006

    A Naga poet keeps her culture alive even without a recognised homeland

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Evolving Guatemala

    • Peter Hamilton
    • 05 June 2006

    Peter Hamilton reflects on Guatemala, and the features of the old city, Antigua.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Descent into chaos

    • Anthony Ham
    • 30 April 2006

    Instability in ivory coast.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    A farewell to arms?

    • Anthony Ham
    • 29 April 2006

    The road towards a Spain free from ETA violence remains one fraught with peril.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    What lies beneath

    • Peter Davis
    • 29 April 2006

    Peter Davis looks at the efforts of Sri Lanka to eradicate landmines.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Getting real in Ulster

    • Hugh Dillon
    • 27 April 2006

    Real peace is likely to come to Northern Ireland only when a new generation sets aside the long-dead icons of 1916 and 1922.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Tensions mount in Sri Lanka

    • Jon Greenaway
    • 21 April 2006

     A few months’ peace in the wake of the tsunami was shattered by an assassin’s bullet.  

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