Published on May,26 2012 - by Agence France Presse
...stan is a stronghold of the Haqqani network -- Afghan insurgents blamed for a series of spectacular attacks on Western targets in Kabul -- and Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud.Islamabad has been resisting US pre...
Published on May,25 2012 - by Forbes
...rt is the voice that is contributing into Ukrainian society.? Let?s not forget that the Soviets were afraid of Western culture. Who knows, maybe disco had a hand in all of that social change and perestroika? If Ukrainian...
Published on May,25 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
...noying totalitarians. The ayatollahs’ concerns were shared by the Communists during the Cold War, who regarded Western pop as a culturally degrading contagion. Tito’s Yugoslavia instructed radio stations to stop music th...
Published on May,25 2012 - by Reuters
...en route to Syria and due to arrive at a Syrian port this weekend, Al Arabiya television said in a report that Western diplomats in New York described on Friday as credible. Ban referred to reports of a "stepped-up secur...
Published on May,25 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
... terrifying to contemplate. So it proved. In the early post-war years, with the help of the new Common Market, Western Europe recovered far faster than anyone would have thought possible. There was an obvious conclusion....
Published on May,25 2012 - by Reuters
... sustained cessation of violence," he said. Russia has defended its weapons deliveries to Syria in the face of Western criticism, saying government forces need to defend themselves against rebels receiving arms from abro...
Published on May,25 2012 - by Agence France Presse
...e on Friday."In the Fog", the austere second feature film by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, is set on the Western frontier of the Soviet Union in 1942, where local partisans have risen up to battle the German occupa...
Published on May,25 2012 - by Variety
.... Among regional officers, Dev Kennedy was re-elected to central regional VP while Doug Carfrae was reupped to western regional veep. Melissa Robinette was tapped as eastern regional vice prexy. Vote also filled 17 seats...
Published on May,25 2012 - by dpa
...HARARE, Zimbabwe _ United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday urged Western nations to suspend sanctions on Zimbabwe. "I would urge those countries that are currently applying sanctions on Zi...
Published on May,25 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
...st plays in Italy and Germany (Freud apparently learnt Norwegian in order to read them) Munch, too, flitted to western Europe at every opportunity in his youth. In a sense, these 19th‑century artists were a modern equiva...