Cold comfort
in Cologne
At this week's G-8 summit, the West once again short-changed the world's poor. Financial rigour -- or flagrant racism, wonders Gamal Nkrumah
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Creating famine in North Korea
Recent naval skirmishing in the Yellow Sea reminds the world of a country still in the grip of famine -- and punitive US sanctions, writes Faiza Rady
Among friends
Russian President Boris Yeltsin was given a warm welcome at the G-8 meeting in Cologne, but still made little progress with the debt relief problem, writes Abdel-Malek Khalil in Moscow
Twinkle twinkle little star
Political Europe is not much of a crowd-puller, as recent parliamentary elections indicate, writes Dominic Coldwell, but it may still have a long life ahead of it
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