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A senior member of the Russian lower house of parliament said on Wednesday that Russia could claim the Crimea if Ukraine was admitted to NATO. NATO decided at its recent summit in Romania not to offer Ukraine and Georgia the chance to join a program that would have put them on the track to join [...]
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Reuters Last updated: 4:23 amFebruary 1, 2009 Posted: 4:19 amFebruary 1, 2009 BAGHDAD – Iraqis held their most peaceful election since the fall of Saddam Hussein yesterday, voting for provincial councils without a single major attack. President Obama hailed the vote as [...]
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Our esteemed Hearst colleague, Houston Chronicle Washington bureau chief Rick Dunham, sends us this fine morsel from the Christian Science Monitor breakfast this morning with Stan Greenberg, a top Democratic pollster: Read more
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Now that President Obama has spent a full week settling into the White House, his advisers have a new task: deciding when to send him back out into the wider world. Read more
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BEIJING Surrounded by mist-covered hills, smiling children in pink costumes and a band playing drums and horns, Jet Li and Donatella Versace looked as if they could be on a movie set. Read more
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NYAMILIMA, Congo — By late afternoon, an unusual delegation of Congolese and Rwandan army officials, ex-rebel lieutenants, spear-carrying militiamen and shiny-shoed politicians had arrived at this dirt-road village in a dusty convoy — a kind of roadshow aimed at explaining perhaps the most improbable twist yet in the deadliest conflict since World War II. Read [...]
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Carrying heavy combat loads is taking a quiet but serious toll on troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, contributing to injuries that are sidelining them in growing numbers, according to senior military and defense officials. Read more
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BAQUBAH, Iraq, Jan. 31 — In Iraq’s receding but still entrenched sectarian struggle, perhaps the most important votes in the provincial elections Saturday were cast in Diyala, a sometimes picturesque province known for its orange groves and its killing fields. Read more
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert threatened on Sunday a “disproportionate response” to the continued firing of rockets into Israel from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama sought to rally support for his emerging economic rescue package on Saturday, as he stood by his latest Cabinet nominee to run into tax problems that could impede confirmation. Read more
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has vowed a “disproportionate” response to rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza. Read more
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DAVOS, Switzerland (AFP) – Leading trade ministers on Saturday said there was a “sound basis” for agreeing a new global free trade pact this year amid growing fears about protectionism as the economic crisis bites. Read more
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AP – An Iraqi girl holds up an ink-stained finger after her parents voted in the country’s provincial elections … Slideshow: Iraq Play Video Video: Blackwater’s Iraq deal not to be renewed AP Play Video Video: Iraq’s election test. Reuters BAGHDAD – Passing through razor-wire cordons and police checkpoints, Iraqi voters Saturday took another step in the nation’s [...]
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Vladimir Putin faces signs of a mutiny within his government that threatens to undermine his once unassailable authority in Russia. Read more
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BAGHDAD (Jan. 31) – Passing through razor-wire cordons and police checkpoints, Iraqi voters Saturday took another step in the nation’s quest for stability in provincial elections that were carried off without major violence but tarnished by claims of flaws and threats of challenges. Even before a single ballot was counted, Iraqi officials were basking in [...]
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The Labour peer at the heart of the Lords sleaze row has secret links to Soviet Russia, a Mail on Sunday investigation has uncovered. Read more
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NBC said on the eve of tomorrow’s Super Bowl it had sold the last two of 69 advertising spots for the game, pushing total ad revenue for the event to a record US$206 million (NZ$405 million). Read more
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Answer: In Persian, the suffix “stan” means “place of.” In Russian — remembering that Kazakhstan borders Russia, and five ‘stans used to be part of the Soviet Union — the word “stan” means “settlement.” So we have seven countries in Central Asia that share the “stan” suffix: Afghanistan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Pakistan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan The [...]
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10:48pm UK, Saturday January 31, 2009 The UN secretary general and the Red Cross are appealing for more time to allow the evacuation of those wounded in fighting in Sri Lanka. [...]
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Britney Spears has reportedly obtained a restraining order against her former friend Osama Lutfi and one-time boyfriend Adnan Ghalib. Read more