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On the even of the G20 Summit, World Bank Chief Robert Zoellick has what will be a much-talked-about op-ed in the FT regarding the topic du jour: the currency war. In it he lays out multiple ideas including a specific plan for yuan appreciation, an end to unilateral currency interventions, a focus on growth via "supply-side-bottlenecks (i.e. structural adjustment), and perhaps most surprisingly: gold. He writes: The system should also consider employing gold as an international reference point of market expectations about inflation,

When Stephen Harper took office in January, 2006, he declared that Canada would follow a more principled foreign policy. Over the weekend, we got some proof that the Prime Minister meant what he said. On March 30, the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution aimed at "combating defamation of religions." The name sounds nice and cuddly. But as the details make clear, the resolution is in fact an effort by Muslim countries to promote the criminalization of any candid discourse concerning the link between Islamist ideology and terrorism. By the resolution's terms, states are urged to "take resolute action...

<p>The French lawyer helping to represent Saddam Hussein plans to sue the British government for war crimes before the International Criminal Court (ICC), one of a growing number of appeals to the new world court to try U.S. and British soldiers and officials over the war in Iraq.</p>