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10.06.2010, 23:50
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From the time of Eisenhower to Barack Obama, Helen Thomas enjoyed a 57-year stint working as a Washington correspondent, until an ill-advised comment on Israel sent her into early retirement.
14.01.2010, 18:40
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Kiev’s Court of Appeals has found Josef Stalin and other Bolshevik leaders guilty of genocide against the Ukrainians during the famine, or “Holodomor” as it is called in Ukraine, of 1932-33.
14.07.2010, 16:23
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In March, US media reported on the “defection” of Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear scientist who went missing in Saudi Arabia who is now accusing US officials of abducting him.
27.07.2010, 17:46
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In an effort to distract attention from the release of thousands of secret documents on the Afghanistan War, the US rounded up 11 Russian “spies” according to internal sources.
23.07.2010, 16:04
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As Moscow expresses its outrage at the detention of a Russian pilot in Liberia and his extradition to the US, Washington has apologized for failing to promptly provide notice about the details of the case.
03.02.2010, 19:54
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A presidential think-tank has proposed radical changes in Russia, including a return to certain liberal elements of Yeltsin’s policy, a multi-party system and cutting the president’s term.
05.03.2010, 17:40
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The US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee has approved a resolution that recognizes the World War I-era deaths of Armenians in Ottoman-era Turkey as an act of “genocide”.
29.07.2010, 11:20
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Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev has signed into law a bill expanding the powers of the Federal Security Service (FSB). The new legislation will come into force after it is officially published.
24.10.2010, 21:54
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Governments should work on decreasing secrecy around its activities, believes WiliLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson.
26.04.2010, 18:30
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Once upon a time, the thought of an American renouncing his or her citizenship was considered to be almost blasphemous - but the times may be a-changing.
Published: 10 April, 2009, 21:13
Edited: 23 February, 2010, 21:24
Following 9/11, the United States set up a covert prison system in Eastern Europe where suspected terrorists were exposed to brutal torture. It took a new US president to put them out of business.
This whole saga demonstrates that Politics in the USA under the latest George Bush differ little from when his father was the backbone of Nixon. These "secret shops of horror" were set into place under Clinton. The extreme reactionaries in the USA Supreme Court and in its Congress were in the majoity then and are still there. Only the front man has changed. /// snowyone.