{"id":291,"date":"2007-05-03T13:35:52","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T18:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=291"},"modified":"2007-05-03T13:35:52","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T18:35:52","slug":"news-and-analysis-050307","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (05\/03\/07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">After flawed elections, is there still hope for Nigeria?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/03\/world\/africa\/03nigeria.html?pagewanted=1&#038;_r=1\">Democracy in Nigeria Falters but Is Far From Dead<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Breaking the ice: the US and Syrian top officials finally meet to talk about Iraq:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/6620205.stm\">US and Syria Hold Landmark Talks<\/a> (BBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Protests in Pakistan as Chief Justice has his day in court to hear the charges against him:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/6618891.stm\">&#8216;Several Injured&#8217; in Judge Clash<\/a> (BBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Early elections announced in Turkey, as well as potential reforms allowing the public to directly elect the president:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/D2C78883-90A2-4068-B155-D8FE00DE5716.htm\">Turkey to Call General Election<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Government incompetence potentially loses radioactive material, so it places ad in its search for lost items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/6616225.stm\">Pakistan Downplays Radioactive Ad <\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(BBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After flawed elections, is there still hope for Nigeria? Democracy in Nigeria Falters but Is Far From Dead (NY Times) Breaking the ice: the US and Syrian top officials finally meet to talk about Iraq: US and Syria Hold Landmark Talks (BBC) Protests in Pakistan as Chief Justice has his day in court to hear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}