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May 7 2008
Haring across London in the back of a people carrier, sitting between Alex Turner and Miles Kane, is not an altogether comfortable place to be. It isn’t that they aren’t affable; on the contrary, the Arctic Monkeys front man and the lead singer of...
May 7 2008
The rubbish crisis in Naples, where heaps of toxic and foul-smelling waste have been left rotting in the streets since Christmas, is heading for the courts after the European Commission announced yesterday that it was taking Italy to the European Court...
May 7 2008
The foreign minister of Taiwan and two other top officials resigned Tuesday over a botched attempt to win diplomatic recognition from Papua New Guinea, a scandal that has stirred public outrage against the outgoing government just two weeks before it is...
May 5 2008
Rev. Jeremiah Wright has proven to be Barack Obama’s cross to bear. Wright’s recent road show, specifically his National Press Conference speech and subsequent press conference, raises questions for some about Obama.
May 2 2008
Čedomir Jovanović says the policy of the cabinet puts the country far from Europe, despite the signing of the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA). Speaking in a camping gathering in Zrenjanin, Vojvodina, the leader of the Liberal-Democrats...
May 2 2008
Several Palestinian militant groups signed off Wednesday on a Hamas-sponsored temporary truce proposal that the Islamist movement says could bring calm to Israel’s southern border with the Gaza Strip and ease the 10-month economic siege of...
Apr 30 2008
Several Palestinian factions have accepted, in principle, to a ceasefire with Israel.
Apr 30 2008
Russia has warned it will retaliate if Georgia uses force against its breakaway regions. Moscow has accused Georgia of preparing to invade Abkhazia, and says it is boosting Russian forces there and in the South Ossetia region. Georgia has reacted...
Apr 30 2008
The European Union signed a pre-membership pact with Serbia as a way to help pro-Western forces avoid defeat by nationalists at the polls on May 11. European ministers had to overcome sharp divisions over the Serbian government’s failure to hunt down...