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V.1: Afghan Taliban -- Amazon's deforestation -- Bosnia Herzegovina -- Brazil; racism and equality -- Chechnya and Russia -- Chiapas rebellion -- Colombian drug wars -- Congo-Kinshasa; the African world war -- Cuba and the United States -- Ethiopia and Eritrea -- Gaza Strip and West Bank -- German r...

World Trade Organization; the battle in Seattle Romania's cyanide spill -- South Africa's truth and reconciliation commission -- Sri Lanka; civil war and ethno-linguistic conflict -- Tibet; struggle for independence -- United Nations peacekeeping forces; peace and conflict -- U.S. Immigration; sanct...

-v. 2: Algeria's post-colonial civil war -- Angola; civil war and diamonds -- Austria's shunning by the global community -- Basques; the ETA and separatism -- China and religious protest -- China and the World Trade Organization -- Colombian U'wa Indians; sacred land and oil -- Cyprus; and island di...

v.3: Pol Pot and the prosecution of the Khmer Rouge leadership in Cambodia -- Splitting a nation; Quebec separatism in Canada -- Disputed drilling rights in the Caspian Sea -- China's Muslim challenge; conflict in Xinjiang -- Unrest and assassination in Congo-Kinsasha -- Diamond cartel; monopolizing...

Whose marbles are they?; controversy over the Parthenon Marbles -- Fujimori and Montesinos; power, politics, and scandal in Peru -- Rooting out corruption in the Philippines; impeachment of a president -- Free to speak?; establishing a free press in Russia -- After Somalia's civil war; putting the p...

v.4: Afghanistan: Afghan Taliban strikes out -- Andean Initiative: expanded U.S. drug war in Latin America: downed missionary plane places the spotlight on the Andean Initiative -- Australia: hard to say sorry: Indigenous Australia's reconciliation movement -- Britain: Euro versus the pound: Britain...

Ivory: Africa's ivory trade: fighting for the bearers of "white gold" -- Japanese voters seek change as their economy deteriorates: new prime minister vows to break political logjam -- Kyoto Protocol: Quitting the Kyoto Protocol: United States strikes out alone -- Libya, Qadhafi, and the African U...

v. 5: -- United States loses its seat on the United Nations Human Rights Panel. - Air security and terrorist threats -- biological threats of terrorism -- chemical terrorism threats -- civil rights suspended -- domestic terrorism: Oklahoma City to anthrax and beyond -- European Union's response to 9...

Olympics confronts terrorism -- PLO and Yasser Arafat: from terrorism to statesmanship to terrorism -- Prosecuting terrorism -- Psychology: understanding the 9/11 perpetrators: crazy, lost in hate, or martyred? -- Al-Qaeda and the reach of terror -- September 11, 2001: United States is attacked on i...

v. 6: Africa's small arms trade: infection of guns and chaos -- Argentina: from economic miracle to political meltdown -- Australia's illegal migration: Australian dilemma or worldwide problem? -- Bangladesh: democratic election of 2001 -- Children exploited: combating the commercial sexual exploita...

Russia-NATO relations in the post-cold war world: rethinking the future of collective security -- South Africa: slow economy delays some post-apartheid goals -- Turkey: women are granted equal rights -- Ukraine-president stands accused: murder and politics -- War correspondents today -- Water wars:...