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Six recent clashes and conflicts on a planet heading into energy overdrive.

Finally, after decades of catastrophic civil war, Africa may give birth to a new nation.

The International Criminal Court has had setbacks—but it's already having an impact.

Remembering a historian of the left, an ideological warrior against empire, witness to India's anticolonial struggles and a persuasive critic of torture and government oppression.

Recent war crimes charges against the Sudanese president reveal the rights-based politics of the world's "new humanitarian order."

Don't let Olympic fever obscure the role China plays in the Sudanese government's reign of terror, rape and killing.

The United Nations' chief troubleshooter and mediator, Lakhdar Brahimi, considers what should come next in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan and how US foreign foreign policy went so far astray.

Abandoning Israel's longstanding commitment to those fleeing persecution, the Olmert government is deporting refugees back to Sudan, where they may face torture and death.

As peace talks open between rebels and the government in Darfur, the question is: who speaks for whom?

Will student-initiated Darfur movements garner enough impetus to provoke tangible action by the government?