So seven years later it will come down to this weekend.  Whether President Obama can withdraw all American combat troops from Iraq by August will be decided by the Iraqi elections this weekend.
If the election passes off peacefully, American soldiers will probably go home on schedule. But if there is a repeat of the sectarian [...]

Tensions are rising rapidly over the imminent oil exploration around the Falklands.
Yesterday Argentina accused Britain of “whipping up the spectre of war” after the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, insisted the Falkland Islands were being properly protected to allow oil and gas exploration.
“We have made all the preparations necessary to make sure the Falklands Islands [...]

Things are hotting up in the Niger Delta again and once again Shell finds itself at the centre of the vortex of violence and conflict.
On Saturday the company had to shut three oil flow stations in the Delta region after a pipeline was sabotaged by armed gun-men.
It was the same day as Nigeria’s militant group [...]

When the Nobel Peace Prize committee decided earlier this year to award the prize to President Obama, they could not have envisaged that it would be in the same month as he sent 30,000 more troops to war.
Giving the peace prize to the Commander in Chief of American forces involved in two brutal and bloody [...]

UPDATE 6/24: The Wall St. Journal has an interesting article on this.
Way back in November 2002, as the build up to the war in Iraq gathered pace, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair appeared on the Arabic Service of Monte Carlo radio, in an address targeted at the Iraqi people. “The idea that this is [...]