Bulgaria`s Finance Ministry says Iraq has paid $360 million to settle its debts to Bulgaria. A ministry statement says Wednesday`s payment follows a 2007 agreement that revised Iraq`s total debt to Bulgaria from US$1.86 billion to US$3.5 billion. The cal...
The Russian state will soon start commissioning and funding domestic films, with the intention of creating films with a "humanitarian, spiritual and patriotic character."
The situation with freedom of mass media in Belarus is getting worse. Andrew McIntosh, Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly rapporteur on media freedom, told in an interview to BelaPAN. The Belarusian authorities may abandon all hopes for acceptation in the
Activist of the youth organisation "Civil Forum" Artsyom Zabaryn was taken to the Minsk mental hospital for examination after he had refused to answer questions of the KGB offices.
A Palestinian bulldozer driver weaved a path of destruction in downtown Jerusalem on Wednesday afternoon. According to media reports, the driver killed at least three people and injured forty others before being taken down by police. Eyewitnesses described a scene
On Tuesday, a spokesman for the U.S. military announced that five additional combat brigades that had been sent to Iraq as part of a "surge" in early 2007 are being withdrawn from the theater of operations. The spokesman went on
Author Christopher Hitchens put his money where his mouth is when challenged to undergo the interrogation technique known as waterboarding. Hitchens wrote an article last year for the online magazine, Slate, where he parsed the difference between "extreme interrogation" techniques
Picture the scene; Your funeral. There are flowers everywhere, all your friends and family are weeping uncontrollably. The hollow rafters of the church echo with the moans of loss. What better music to appropriately punctuate the moment than "Highway to
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the results from a poll that was jointly conducted by Gallup and USA Today indicate that registered voters fear Republican presidential nominee John McCain will carry out policies similar to those of current
Yahoo and the Associated Press have jointly conducted a poll in an attempt to discover how the nation views potential first ladies Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain. The results, which were released earlier today by CNN, indicate that more people
According to Yahoo! News, a new poll shows that the American public hasn’t taken a liking to Michelle Obama and is very unfamiliar with Cindy McCain, the two women who could potentially be the First Lady of the country soon
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama sent a letter to the Alice B. Toklas Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Democratic Club located in San Francisco on Tuesday. The letter contained a message from the presidential hopeful that confirmed his opposition to a
John McCain is denying a colleague's contention that he lost his temper and got physical with an associate of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Republican Senator Thad Cochran told a Mississippi newspaper that he witnessed John McCain grab an Ortega associate
The heads of the Beijing Olympics have introduced an official cheer for Chinese spectators to show their support at the upcoming Summer Olympics. The cheer is a four-part move, involving a double-clap, thumbs-up with both hands, another double-clap and finally
American Airlines Inc. acknowledged it will furlough 900 flight attendants this summer as part of its employee reduction plan announced in May. "These are difficult, but necessary changes given the unprecedented challenges we face with overcapacity in the industry," said
In a bastion of the religious right, Barack Obama urged Americans Wednesday to look past the "bustle and busyness" of their everyday lives to find a way to help make the American dream real not just for themselves, but for
A 14-year-old told authorities she helped Michael Jacques, BrookeBennett's uncle, take the missing 12-year-old to Jacques' Randolph Vermont home on June25 to be initiated into a sex ring called Breckinridge. Brooke has notbeen seen since that day.
