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There’s an incendiary report out of Rwanda that accuses — and recommends trial for — some top French officials in the 1994 genocide in which 800,000 Rwandans were slain. More:
“A report commissioned by the Rwandan government named 33 senior French military and political figures, among them Dominique de Villepin, the former prime minister, and Francois […]
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If, in fact, John Edwards confessed his 2006 infidelity to his wife, Elizabeth, before he announced his run for the presidency, as he now says, then she’s a co-conspirator in his betrayal of those who donated significant time and money to his campaign.Â
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Georgia had been sufficiently punished for sending its forces into the separatist South Ossetia region, leading to five days of air and ground attacks in response.
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Stuart, Darnell and Rex expressed their disappointment with this week’s task as they sat in the rain-soaked garden this afternoon.
When it began to rain as Rachel started her event, Rex complained: “How boring is this?” He then began his Egg and Spoon task but soon told the group: “I’m bored. I want to throw this […]
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I just wrote about this the other day, and the International Olympic Committee has now commented on this. The Spanish Men’s and Women’s basketball teams both posed in advertising photos, pulling back their eyes to make themselves look slant-eyed. The ad was for the Spanish courier company, Seur.
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A chubby-faced little girl with crooked teeth and a beautiful voice was deemed not good-looking enough to appear at the opening ceremony.
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Dem Operatives Making Moves
It’s presidential campaign season, and that means the critical campaign operatives are being sent on missions to new places to handle new challenges.
So this puts Debbie Mesloh, who has been the veteran California press aide to Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and longtime spokeswoman for San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris (a […]
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Mahmoud Darwish, the writer and man of verse who died last weekend in Houston, at the age of 67, from complications following heart surgery, was that rare, expressive figure who managed to speak for and unite around his work all of the beleaguered Palestinians, and countless other admirers around the Arab world, too. Today, in […]
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TBILISI, Georgia, Aug. 13 — A column of Russian armor and troops moved deeper into Georgian territory on Wednesday in apparent violation of a new cease-fire agreement, according to Georgian officials and eyewitnesses who said the Russian equipment was moving toward the Georgian capital then turned north.
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Al-Qaeda has exploited recent political turmoil in Pakistan to strengthen its foothold along the country’s border with Afghanistan, a top U.S. counterterrorism official said yesterday in an assessment that also warned of a heightened risk of attack during the upcoming U.S. election season.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, July 2 — Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Wednesday that he would not consider joining a unity government as a junior partner to President Robert Mugabe, whom he has accused of beating, torturing and killing his way to reelection last week.
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KIRKUK, Iraq — Col. Abdul Karim Aziz, a fighter pilot who survived the war between Iraq and Iran during the 1980s, had all but given up hope of flying again when his mother told him in 2005 that it was time to get back in the air.
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TBILISI, Georgia, Aug. 12 — Russia said Tuesday that it had ended its five-day tank and bomber assault against Georgia and agreed to a French peace plan by which most Russian forces would return home and international mediators would work to settle the long and explosive conflict between Georgia and Russian-backed South Ossetian separatists.
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SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Indian Kashmir on Wednesday began a three-day mourning for at least 20 Muslim protesters shot dead by police this week as the region simmered over a land row that has revived independence calls.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Georgia and Russia agreed in principle to an EU-brokered peace plan over South Ossetia on Wednesday as the U.S. showed disapproval of Moscow’s attacks on its neighbor by cancelling a joint naval exercise.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has agreed an outline plan with Russia and Georgia to try to resolve their crisis.
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The first relief flight from the U.N. refugee agency arrived in Georgia as the number of people uprooted by the conflict neared 100,000. Thousands streamed into the capital.
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IN what could be the biggest ever payday for a public company executive, Fortress Investment Group, the hedge fund manager which floated in New York last year, has given one of its star traders more than $300m (e201m) to stay at the firm.
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Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has told supporters at a rally in Tbilis that Russian fighter jets are still targeting their villages despite claims by Russia that military operations have ended.
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TOKYO (Aug. 12) - Japanese World War II leader Hideki Tojo wanted to keep fighting even after U.S. atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, accusing surrender proponents of being “frightened,” a newly released diary reveals.
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