Robert Mugabe uses food as weapon as famine looms The Times | Zimbabwe is on the brink of an unprecedented famine after its worst harvest since independence in 1980. The plight of Zimbabweans is compounded by the deliberate starvation of most of the population because of their support for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). | A crop assessme...
Vijay Mallya looks to fly away with SpiceJet The Times Of India | | NEW DELHI: Another round of consolidation in the domestic skies seems imminent with UB Group chairman Vijay Mallya engaging in talks with two major shareholders of SpiceJet to buy the budget carrier in an all-cash deal. | According to ...
Children's mail helped soldier in chaos of Iraq Florida Times Union | Each time Master Sgt. Earl Smith's unit embarked on a combat mission into the streets of Iraq's Sadr City, he and his fellow soldiers loaded their weapons and said a short prayer. | Some of the stints into one of the war's hotbeds of violence were ...
Visions of the harem The Guardian A postcard on my mantelpiece shows two men and a woman strolling through a museum. Their backs towards us, they pause for a moment to contemplate a painting. The men are in white North African robes, the woman is in a long skirt with a jumper slung o...
U.S. Relies More on Contractors To Fight Drug Trade Wall Street Journal | During the more than five years that three Northrop Grumman Corp. employees were held hostage in Colombia, captured while on a Defense Department job, the U.S. steadily increased its use of contractors to help fight the drug trade in dangerous part...
Master of a Fading Art Wall Street Journal On a recent morning, Romualdo Pelle was in his Madeira, Ohio, shop outside Cincinnati, pinning and tucking a dress for Carol Armstrong, the wife of the astronaut Neil Armstrong. Mr. Pelle has done alterations for the Armstrongs for more than a decade...
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A new world under one Heaven Asia Times | By Francesco Sisci | Part 1: | BEIJING - Globalization in the West started with the Greeks - with the Anabasis told by Xenophon, a disciple of Socrates. Then, 10,000 Greek mercen...
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Over-the-counter cloak and dagger Asia Times | Spies For Hire by Tim Shorrock | Reviewed by David Isenberg | Among the many issues that have become the subject of public debate in the years since the September 11, 2001, attac...
US: It flew 3,600 flights looking for hostages The State By PAULINE JELINEK - Associated Press Writer | WASHINGTON -- | The U.S. military says it flew thousands of spy flights over Colombian jungles trying to find and free three Pentagon...
Vijay Mallya looks to fly away with SpiceJet The Times Of India | | NEW DELHI: Another round of consolidation in the domestic skies seems imminent with UB Group chairman Vijay Mallya engaging in talks with two major shareholders of SpiceJet to buy the b...
Sinking in a river of roubles The Australian | IT'S 3am on a Friday along a narrow Moscow canal behind the House on the Embankment, the sprawling apartment block built under Stalin for the Communist Party nomenklatura, where the purges began. Chauffeur-driven black Hummers, BMWs with tinted win...
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Over-the-counter cloak and dagger Asia Times | Spies For Hire by Tim Shorrock | Reviewed by David Isenberg | Among the many issues that have become the subject of public debate in the years since the September 11, 2001, attacks are the functions of the United States intelligence community and outsourcing of role and activities to the private sector. The numerous reports that have been issued ...
President Bush off the record The Charlotte Observer AP Photo President Bush still believes freedom can be established in the Arab and Muslim world. Will he be proved right? | It is a privilege to spend 90 minutes with the president of the United States. It is frustrating, though, when 90 percent of those minutes are declared off the record. | President Bush likes it that way, because he gets to spea...
