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The military could stop boats, but not migrants

Military action on migrant boats, Nuclear non-proliferation, Greece EU, South Africa's great divide, being a blogger.

The EU is proposing military attacks in Libya to target migrant trafficking networks and will seek UN Security Council approval today. However, such a mission would be fraught with difficulties and potential for escalation, and even if military action stops the boats, it won't stop the people trying to flee conflict areas.

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The proposed military action might destroy the boats, but won't stem the tide of migrants waiting to leave Libya for Europe.

Military analyst, Paul Beaver, considers what such a mission can achieve, and why this is so different from the militarily similar intervention against Somali pirates.

Nuclear Non-proliferation conference

Mark Fitzpatrick, Director of the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, discusses the progress being made on nuclear disarmament at the NPT conference currently taking place in New York.

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Finance ministry cleaners celebrate being re-hired

EU and Greece

EU finance ministers meet once again today, to negotiate the next release of bailout funds for Greece.

Our Athens correspondent, Maria Kagkelidou, explains how the ruling Syriza party now finds itself in a lose-lose situation.

The continuing divide in South Africa

South Africa's largest opposition party, the traditionally white Democratic Alliance, has elected its first ever black leader, countering its pro-white image. However, social policy activist, Janet Jobson, says that while the black-white may have been solved politically, on the economic front, it is as deep as ever.

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10 years of Huff Po

It's the 10th anniversary of the online media sensation, Huffington Post.

Alex Matthews, founder of the South Africa based literature blog, Aerodrome, talks about what it takes to make a mark in the blogosphere.

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