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Libya after Gaddafi

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Today's international press focuses on the challenges facing the Libyan National Transitional Council in building. Many papers question the wisdom of the NATO intervention and some ask if the Libyan example could work in Syria.

IN THE PAPERS
By Elena CASAS

Egyptian blog the Arabist asks how the Libyan NTC will deal with the challenges of reconstructing the country - and stopping it descending into sectarian chaos.

The Atlantic says NATO's action in Libya was a shining example of a well conducted intervention - and should be followed in countries like Syria.

The Guardian doesn't think Bashar al-Assad is losing any sleep over Gaddafi though - claiming that the parallel does not stand up to scrutiny.

And the New Yorker explains why dropped charges don't mean prosecutors believe that Dominique Strauss-Kahn is innocent.

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'I've only got €100 million left!'
24/05/2013 - IN THE FRENCH PAPERS

'I've only got €100 million left!'

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'It was better they aimed their weapons just at me, rather than everybody else'
23/05/2013 - IN THE WORLD PAPERS

'It was better they aimed their weapons just at me, rather than everybody else'

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French kids don’t know their onions... or many other veggies!
23/05/2013 - IN THE FRENCH PAPERS

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Calling from the top of the world
22/05/2013 - IN THE WORLD PAPERS

Calling from the top of the world

International papers are speculating on the upcoming elections in Iran, after former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is excluded from the vote. Columnists in the US are still up in arms over attacks on press freedoms, in the wake of a wiretapping scandal involving the Department of Justice and the Associated Press. And a high-altitude phone call lands one mountaineer in big trouble in Nepal.

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....."Egyptian blog the

by Anonyme - 23/08/2011 - 22:16

....."Egyptian blog the Arabist asks how the Libyan NTC will deal with the challenges of reconstructing the country - and stopping it descending into sectarian chaos".....

It will surprise me if those words are not the facts of the matter of what will come into being once the phony euphoria has died off.

Mind you, Egypt, so far, is no shining example of what lies ahead.

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