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The three days Barack Obama will spend in Indonesia no doubt constitute a nostalgic high-point of a trip that will also take in Guam and Australia. Yet the return to a boyhood city is also replete with significant geopolitical and economic challenges.

Mr Stephen Smith MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs, has today used the University of Sydney's International Forum, Australia's Re-engagement with Africa, to announce further Australian assistance for Africa. The forum brought together a range of leaders

Diplomats from the US, Russia, EU and UN have called on Israel to stop building settlements. What are the chances of Israeli Palestinian talks starting?

On March 23, 2010 the world's foremost experts on innovation will gather in Berkeley, Calif. to challenge established thinking about what innovation is, where it comes from, and how to make it work.

As Director of the Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, Alison Acosta Fraser oversees Heritage Foundation research on a wide range of domestic economic issues including federal spending, taxes, energy and environment, retirement savings and regulati