Cracked have surfaced in the ruling Pakistani establishment after Asif Zardari, widower of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has thrown his hat into Presidential race. Asif Zardari has been a controversial figure during his wife's tenure as Pakistani Prime minister. With...
Is this a case of too many cooks spoil the broth?"On 22 August 2008, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, Minister of Foreign Affairs Eka Tkeshelashvili and State Minister for Reintegration Issues Temur Iakobashvili held a meeting with OSCE Chairman-in-Office,...
"A protest rally of about 100 representatives of Georgian United Trade Union is being held at Igoeti village, where the first checkpoint of Russian occupation armies is located. ‘You cannot make Georgia to bring to its knees with bombing’; ‘There is no place for...
For many people, it seems as though the White House is as much in the dark as anyone else. The lack of information and rumours going around make it hard for the average person to follow the story, let alone a major world power who is trying to make decisions based on shifting...
"Declaring "the aggressor has been punished," the Kremlin ordered a halt Tuesday to Russia's devastating assault on Georgia — five days of air and ground attacks that left homes in smoldering ruins and uprooted 100,000 people. Both sides accepted the general outlines of a...
Update 9:22 AM EST: Put has declared that the "War has started." Russia and Georgia are now at war."Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said ``war has started'' in the breakaway region of...
The PM learned of his colourful antecedents yesterday when presented with two leather-bound volumes of his family tree. PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd is descended from solid convict stock, and his forebears include a...
"The staunchest supporters of each of the two sides in what I call Africa's 'agro-ideological debate' are unlikely to see eye to eye any time soon, so deep is their suspicion of each others' motives. To advocates of intensive 'green revolution' revolution methods, Africa's...
The world is waiting in anticipation after it was announced that the Zimbabwe talks had stalled and were taking a few days off.The official story running on the wire and other news services is that both sides are at an impasse over what position and powers Morgan Tsvangirai,...
The media is now reporting every other day on this issue. August 2nd in Tofino is the first demonstration planned. I still cannot believe we are in 2008 and still dealing with these issues. Sad...
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"Palaeontologists have unveiled an extraordinary prehistoric 'flying' reptile which lived 235 million years ago.The kuehneosaurs glided through the subtropical forests of Europe using scaly 'wings' that could carry...
Taliban has threatned to eliminate all the 29 Pakistan hostages if their leaders are not freed. "Militants will start killing a group of 29 hostages Saturday if the government does not release several insurgent prisoners, a Pakistani Taliban spokesman said. A...
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French President Nikolas Sarkozy has opened the first summit meeting of the Union for the Mediterranean. Similar to the EU but with a looser grouping, the body will focus on energy, security, trade, and immigration...
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This autumn, a delegation of artists from Vietnam Puppetry will go for a tour in three European countries, including Finland where people do not know much about water puppetry."As scheduled, Vietnam water puppetry...
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"As part of our commitment to highlight social entrepreneurship in Africa, the Cheetah Index brings you this interview with Tobias Sturmer-Artistic Director of Empowerment Works Music.Before going into the interview here is an excerpt from Empowerment Works that describes...