PRI outfoxed at last
 The stranglehold on power in Mexico's 71-year Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is finally over, writes Hisham El-Naggar
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Doctor's calling
Last week's international conference on democracy in Warsaw was a grim reminder that many countries remain authoritarian strongholds in a post-Cold War era, writes Surender Bhutani from Warsaw
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Identifying the killer
An entire generation has been wiped out by AIDS in Africa. Can the forthcoming international AIDS conference postpone Armageddon? Not if Western pharmaceutical companies continue to profit from the crisis, writes Gamal Nkrumah
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Five steps backward
 Geneva was treated to the now-familiar spectacle of railing delegates and anti-globalisation protesters when it hosted the follow-up to the 1995 Copenhagen Social Summit last week, writes Gamil Ibrahim from Geneva
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Organising
social misery
Slightly ruffled, but undaunted by broken promises made at Copenhagen in 1995, delegates at the Geneva Social Summit continued to push for more of the same, writes Faiza Rady
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Muslims condemn globalisation
For the Arab element of last week's Organisation of Islamic Conference gathering, globalisation played second fiddle to inter-Arab concerns, reports Dina Ezzat from Kuala Lumpur
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