BBC Scotland publishes further evidence about a suspected conflict of interest concerning the administrators of Rangers.

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More evidence of Gers ‘conflict’

The old order changes. Often, it’s hard to know who is arriving. But it’s usually clear who’s leaving. This time it’s the Red Sox , Yankees and Phillies . Baseball always had its long cycles of dominant teams that mature, milk their success for years then gradually succumb to age, injury, horrid contracts, minor league systems eviscerated by win-now trades, internal conflicts and life in general. Read full article > >

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Yankees, Red Sox, Phillies are on the way out

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor said Wednesday that he was “saddened” by the guilty verdict for abetting war crimes in Sierra Leone and said his role in the conflict was much different from how it had been portrayed.

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Charles Taylor blames woes on U.S.

Chinook helicopter crews based at RAF Odiham in Hampshire have been playing a vital role in the conflict in Afghanistan.

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VIDEO: Chinooks at work in Afghanistan

Chinook helicopter crews based at RAF Odiham in Hampshire have been playing a vital role in the conflict in Afghanistan.

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VIDEO: Chinooks at work in Afghanistan

Argentina marks the 30th anniversary of the sinking of the warship General Belgrano during the Falklands conflict with the UK.

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Argentina marks Belgrano sinking

Every few moments, Nyameat Nyak glances nervously at the sky. It’s been two weeks since Sudanese warplanes bombed her teashop as she was serving five traders, pregnant with her sixth child. Shrapnel sliced through the walls, covering her in flesh and blood. Read full article > >

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South Sudan civilians are trapped in conflict over oil

With the revival of talks — which went unexpectedly well — and domestic differences arising in Israel, the odds of imminent conflict have decreased, experts and American officials say.

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Chances of Iran Strike Receding, U.S. Officials Say

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The Great Mosque in Djenné, Mali, a revered religious monument constructed almost entirely from sun-dried mud bricks coated with clay, is undergoing a restoration that has created local conflicts.

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An Art Critic in Africa: The Great Mosque in Djenné, Mali — An Art Critic in Africa

The war photographer Paul Conroy who was severely injured in Syria has warned that material from citizen journalists and activists involved directly in the conflict cannot be relied upon

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VIDEO: War reporters ‘have to go in’ to Syria

Foreign policy analysts explain why Americans should care about what happens in Syria beyond the human suffering in the conflict.

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Why Syria should matter to Americans

Burma’s president holds his first talks with Karen rebels in an effort to end one of the world’s longest running civil conflicts.

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Burma leader meets Karen rebels

Government workers’ pensions may sound like an obscure topic, but it’s front and center in some of the most rancorous of today’s political discussion s. Retirement benefits for public workers are at the heart of the conflict between state and local governments and the unions representing their workers — and how that conflict gets resolved will affect investors in the municipal bonds issued by those states and cities. Let’s take a look at the looming public pension crisis, its effect on municipal finance and how accounting reform might help. Read full article > >

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Public-pension pitfalls: What municipal budget troubles mean for bond investors

The one-state solution posits that the ongoing attempts to forge a two-state solution, one Israel and one Palestine, are a failure and untenable going forward. Following up on my initial piece on this subject, I now turn to the hurdles that would need to be overcome in order to accomplish a single state where both Israelis and Palestinians live in peace. The lines between separate states are blurring, argues Ahmed Moor, a student at Harvard’s Kennedy School and co-organizer of the recent One State Conference . 20% of Israelis are of Arab descent and 17% of the residents in the Occupied Territories are Jewish settlers. Israel is exercising control over Palestinian land and people in the West Bank by the construction of security walls that cleave cities and separate farmers from their land, and by destroying wells or buildings built without Israeli permits. Israeli settlements are expanding in contravention of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prevents an occupying force from moving its citizens onto occupied lands. So, the argument would go, if Israel controls who and what comes and goes in the West Bank and Gaza, exercises the right to build its own structures while destroying those built by Palestinians and maintains a security and military presence within the territories, how do we not already have a single, albeit imbalanced, state?

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Is a Single State the Solution? Tackling the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Part Two