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That struggle is playing out in the same Paris courtroom in which a French revolutionary tribunal sentenced Marie Antoinette to the guillotine in 1793 (a detail that may not thrill history enthusiast Villepin). At the core of the trial is the Clearstream affair - a scandal named for the Luxembourg financial...
After years of escalating border incidents, war began in earnest the night of Aug. 7, 2008, when Saakashvili, who says he believed a Russian attack was imminent, ordered the shelling of Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia. It was a colossal miscalculation. Saakashvili told me he never expected the U.S...
On a recent drizzly afternoon in Vratislavice nad Nisou, not far from the German border, red apples were peeping out from beneath heaps of early snow on the trees. In the 16th century, Germans settled alongside Czechs in the town and built flourishing factories, one of which is said to...
It was a different story last week when a plane chartered by British immigration officials landed at Baghdad International Airport with about 50 illegal Iraqi migrants from British deportation facilities. Armed Iraqi soldiers stormed the plane and ordered the officials to take the Iraqis back to Britain. British newspapers described...
The washed-up wood, says Lam, is evidence of the shrinking old-growth forest cover - a loss that has contributed to erosion and frequent flooding in the province. He blames "logging pirates," illegal timber smugglers who are becoming increasingly bold - and even dangerous. But, Lam added, many trees are also...