9 February 2006
Stories from 9 February 2006
Nepal: Elections, The King and Khatmandu
Nepal: Elections, The King and Khatmandu
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Christian Garbis discusses what is at stake for Armenia in the upcoming talks with Azerbaijan over Karabakh.
With talks on a framework for settling the Karabakh conflict on the horizon, discontent in Armenian civil society is on the rise, reports Onnik Krikorian.
T-Moor reports that Tashkent was gripped with fear today over rumors of an impending earthquake.
Guate360 has a description and photo of a teachers' strike (ES) which filled the plaza in front of the National Palace.
Adam Isacson tells the story of Hernán Giraldo, a drug-trafficking paramilitary leader, who will be released from prison in six and a half years as a beneficiary of the “Justice and Peace Law.”
Lemuel Kolkava of This Blog will be Deleted by Tomorrow comments on the Slovak lawmakers' decision to move this year's elections from September to June 17: “Will they, won’t they, will they have early elections? (Yes) Will this influence the NASDAQ or Dow Jones indices in any way? (No)”
Volunteers in Moscow are lending their digital cameras to children with cancer this coming Sunday, so that they could spend one day photographing their lives at the Children's Clinical Hospital. This would be the second year for Moscow's little in-patients to take part in the international contest “Through My Eyes: A Day in the Life of Children with Cancer Around the World.” Yekaterina Chistyakova, who coordinates the volunteer effort, announces this year's details (RUS) on her LiveJournal. Photographs from a year ago are here (click on each child's name to see his/her work).
Pestiside.hu reports that unless more women start coming to Budapest's historical Rudas Thermal Bath, financial losses would be too substantial to continue with the “women only” and “co-ed” days experiment beyond the end of March.
Sean Guillory at Sean's Russia Blog examines the points made by Andrei Illarionov, former economic adviser to Vladimir Putin, about the direction Russia has taken in the recent years.
What the f***? A african man again...why people want to deleted on the worldwide Africans or Black mens?!... Really outrageous. France is maybe...
"Tsai's interview with the Washington Post, in which he claimed that the June 4 Massacre (Tiananmen Square) did not happen." Any responsible,...
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As they say here, Morsy is the first presidential candidate ever to run for presidency against his will, and people...