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Iran, which got a major security boost when the U.S. took out two of its biggest enemies in Saddam Hussein and the Taliban, is nonetheless feeling the pressure. It hopes to acquire several billion dollars worth of Russian military aircraft and is pressing ahead with what it insists is a peaceful nuclear program, which critics say can be diverted to atomic weapons. Welcome to the newest twist of the Middle East arms race...
...date, most of the direct investments Chinese companies have made abroad have been relatively small, aimed principally at gaining access to key supplies of oil, gas and minerals in Africa and elsewhere. Much of this has gone largely unnoticed. Chinese companies, for example, quietly invested $4.2 billion in Russian companies last year. But some, of course, has been decidedly noticed. The country's investments in Sudan, which increased in early July when China National Petroleum Corp. said it would spend an additional $25 million developing an offshore field there, have become a global flash point given the carnage the Khartoum...
...number of homes. Hordes of tourists were forced to evacuate hotels and holiday resorts, fleeing Greece as local governors declared states of emergency in a raft of districts and islands. Bewildered by the crisis, Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis purportedly scrapped plans for an early election, turning instead to Russian President Vladimir Putin for urgent firefighting assistance (a fleet of water-bombers, helicopters and amphibious planes). Retinues of state officials were also dispatched to blaze-hit regions to assess the damage as socialist opponents riled against the government's handling of the crisis, billing it "catastrophic in this season of hell...
VLADIMIR PUTIN, President of Russia, denouncing British demands for extradition of the Russian spy accused of murdering Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London last year...
...When Russian tanks stormed Budapest in 1956 to quash the revolution, award-winning cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs grabbed a 35-mm camera from his film school and secretly documented the violence. Kovacs, who fled to the U.S. in 1957 (CBS aired his footage in a 1961 documentary), went on to international acclaim for sweeping photography in more than 70 movies, including Five Easy Pieces, the black-and-white Paper Moon and Shampoo. He was credited with helping change the mostly studiobound look of features with the 1969 breakthrough film Easy Rider, in which he celebrated the landscape, making...