By Tristana Moore / Berlin, Monday, Mar. 15, 2010 TIME magazine
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The head of Germany's Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of Freiburg, listens to questions during a press conference on March 12, 2010, at the Vatican. Zollitsch issued a new apology to victims of pedophile priests as he met the Pope Friday and announced the creation of a watchdog to counter abuses

The pope's entire career has the stench of evil about it.
By Christopher Hitchens
Posted Monday, March 15, 2010, at 10:20 AM ET

On March 10, the chief exorcist of the Vatican, the Rev. Gabriele Amorth (who has held this demanding post for 25 years), was quoted as sayingthat "the Devil is at work inside the Vatican," and that "when one speaks of 'the smoke of Satan' in the holy rooms, it is all true—including these latest stories of violence and pedophilia." This can perhaps be taken as confirmation that something horrible has indeed been going on in the holy precincts, though most inquiries show it to have a perfectly good material explanation.

Mohan Krishen Teng
13 March 2010

When Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh revealed the Government of India’s decision to take on board all ‘stake holders’ of Jammu & Kashmir in order to reach a settlement, he was in real terms proposing a paradigm shift in the Indian stand on J&K.

Bhaskar Roy
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Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:41 pm (PST)
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China announced (March 04) a 7.5% increase in its defence budget for 2010, breaking a double digit increase in declared military expenditure for a decade. At $ 78.25 billion (Yuan 532.11 billion), it is 1.4 per cent of the country's GDP, and 6.3 percent of the national budget, Chinese spokesmen argue. For the first time in several years this figure has fallen below 10 per cent of the budget.

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Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:43 pm (PST)
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China's ongoing tussles with the United States over issues including Taiwan, Tibet and trade are in a sense nothing new. For more than two decades, Sino-US relations have periodically gone through rough patches over these and related causes of disagreement. What is new is China's much-enhanced global clout in the wake of the world financial crisis, which is coupled with a marked decline in America's hard and soft power.