Unfinished business
With Afghanistan in turmoil and the war against Iraq looming large, the US already has its hands full, reports Iffat Idris from Islamabad

In legal limbo
US determination to avert the next 11 September has engendered a new era of nebulous international law, writes Nyier Abdou

Cut short
Is the African Union going off the rails, or is the Ivorian crisis just casting a shadow on the pan-African body, wonders Gamal Nkrumah

Reclaiming the future
The struggle against neo-liberalism and its various agents has taken a new impetus in Latin America, writes Faiza Rady

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American investigators are working around the clock to find an explanation for the explosion of the US space shuttle Columbia on Saturday morning...