…following elections on Friday 26 February, Ireland could be the latest of the peripheral euro area members to be left with a fragmented parliament and minority government. • The opinion polls and focus groups say that centre-right Fine Gael, the …
…an agreement reached between the government and Tuaregs in Algiers may not necessarily carry weight with the diverse and fragmented rebel groups in northern Mali. South Sudan: The European Union has imposed sanctions in the form of a travel ban…
…moving to nukes Egypt — Mubarak is in a cage and new govt could be seriously anti-US Syria — disintegrating Iraq — could fragment KSA — ripe for revolution ME peace process is dead Israel — at more serious risk than in living memory …
…should, in turn, placate China's irritable trading partners. But things might not be so simple. Take one particularly fragmented and dirty industry. At the government's urging, one of its bigger firms has bought over a dozen others, eight…
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