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The government of Russian President Vladimir Putin, which is gearing up for a presidential election early next month, is looking forward to an easy transition. Putin’s hand-picked candidate-successor, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, is currently scoring high in voter-opinion polls and is expected to win the nationwide contest on March 2 in a landslide. News [...]
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Flying in or out of Baghdad is always a stressful ordeal due to a lack of organisation on the ground rather than fears of a missile blasting the plane from the sky.My latest exit at the weekend was no exception with the added absurdity of receiving a form to fill in on the flight to [...]
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Smashing to see Japan’s prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda, following the example of The Queen and getting hip to the kids’ jive by promoting himself on YouTube. Also to hear him gamely speaking in English for 5′ 33″ – not effortlessly (though who am I to talk?), but gamely nonetheless. Anyone who makes his debut on [...]
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Interview with Bobby Fischer on his achievements in chess, undated (pre-1972) Excerpt from documentary “God of Gods” on Bobby Fischer’s career Excerpt from documentary “Anything to Win” on Fischer’s 1972 world title match with Boris Spassky Bobby Fischer interview with Radio Bomba, the Philippines, September 12 2001. (Warning: contains swearing and offensive language) Read more
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Russia and the European Union are neighbors geographically. But geopolitically they live in different centuries. A 21st-century European Union, with its noble ambition to transcend power politics and build an order based on laws and institutions, confronts a Russia that behaves like a traditional 19th-century power. Both are shaped by their histories. The supranational, legalistic [...]
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The presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan fiddle furiously as the fires of terrorist violence burn across their nations. Read more
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During a round of talks with North Korea over the abduction of Japanese citizens, Akitaka Saiki , a Japanese negotiator, pounded the table in frustration. The North Koreans reciprocated with the same gesture. When he threatened to leave, they told him to go right ahead. Read more
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KABUL, Feb. 7 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, during a visit here Thursday, said a “more coherent international approach” is needed in Afghanistan to build on what she described as significant progress. Read more
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One billion people may die of tobacco-related illness this century, almost all of them in developing countries, the World Health Organization warned yesterday as it rolled out an unprecedented global campaign to limit the spread of smoking. Read more
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MIAMI, Jan. 29 — It has become a highly stylized ritual: Political candidates drop by the Versailles restaurant in Little Havana, slurp a cafecito, condemn Fidel Castro and loudly affirm, ” Viva Cuba libre!” Television cameras capture it all. Read more