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Brisbane, Australia: Racing the desert sun (Chicago Sun-Times)

20 Jul 2008

BRISBANE, Australia -- It was about this time last year when my father's offhanded comment during a phone call really got me thinking. "You know," he said, "April-May is the perfect time to do this trip."

A New Generation of Activists Arises in Burma (Washington Post)

20 Jul 2008

RANGOON -- They operate in the shadows, slipping by moonlight from safe house to safe house, changing their cellphones to hide their tracks and meeting under cover of monasteries or clinics to plot changes that have eluded their country for 46 years.

Gov’t’s claim of ‘opposition’s inability to internationalize’ draws strong ire (Zaman Online)

20 Jul 2008

In the back rooms of Ankara, people have been speaking about how the Republican People’s Party (CHP) took serious offense after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan lambasted the main opposition, accusing it of being completely cut off from EU standards and developments on the international scene.