>> Flowing smoothly As the United States juggles competing tensions over Iraq's political future, the country’s oil production is getting back into full swing.

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>> UN not up to the task in the Solomons: Downer

It was US President George W Bush who warned that the United Nations risked becoming an irrelevant debating society unless it took decisive action against Iraq. Now Australia seems to have decided that is pretty much what the UN has become. In a further shift in foreign policy, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has endorsed the continuing use of "coalitions of the willing" to sort out international troubles, in preference to the UN. Mr Downer's criticism of multilateralism comes as he assembles a new coalition to go into the Solomon Islands. [Full story ...]

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