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Heart of Darkness revisited: per kajak dwars door Congo — Twee maanden lang en 1.700 kilometer ver peddelde avonturier-journalist Marc Hoogsteyns in een kajak door het hart van Congo. Hij is net terug uit de brousse, en wat hij daar zag, heeft hem diep geraakt: een volk dat totaal aan zijn lot wordt overgelaten en geen kant meer uit kan.
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Avigdor Lieberman, the new Israeli foreign minister, emigrated from the former Soviet Union years ago. He recently returned to Russia, receiving a "notably warm reception" from Putin's government, which has displayed, we are told, none of the Obama team's "squeamishness" on Israel's hard line.
Russia, as we've known for a long time, wants to be seen as a serious great power in the Middle East.
Lieberman is romancing the Russians like no Israeli official before.
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JUST after Iran’s rigged elections last week, with hundreds of thousands of protesters taking to the streets, it looked as if a new revolution was in the offing. Five days later, the uprising is little more than a symbolic protest, crushed by the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. Meanwhile, the real revolution has gone unnoticed: the guard has effected a silent coup d’état.