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Tymoshenko relents... sort of
After almost two weeks of protest, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has dropped her charges of electoral fraud against Viktor Yanukovich, but not without a parting salvo. On February 20,...
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Seven arrested in Italian-Iranian smuggling sting
Though Iranian-Italian relations don't often make the headlines, trade between the two countries is estimated to be in the neighborhood of $9 billion. That makes Italy Iran's largest trading partner...
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Pakistani officials refuse to submit to x-ray scan
U.S.-Pakistani relations tend to be defined by a certain set of core issues, which include the ISI's double-dealing with the CIA, the 2005 Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear agreement, and Pakistani nuclear...
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New immunity for Berlusconi
Looks like Silvio Berlusconi's off the hook again. The upper chamber of the Italian Parliament passed a new law today allowing the prime minister to excuse himself from attending court hearings on...
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Singhing Putin's Praises
Today Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh met in New Delhi to sign a number of bi-lateral commercial agreements. While the agreements cover a wide variety...
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Russia's one-man army of darkness
Russia is a country that has yet to come to terms with its history. Russian public opinion is sharply divided on every one of their previous General Secretaries and Presidents, with the exception of...
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U.S. General: Gay Dutch soldiers responsible for Bosnian massacre
During his campaign President Obama pledged to repeal the U.S. military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. While the issue wasn't an immediate starter for the administration, Obama revisited it in his...
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India's red hot chili grenade
Think mustard gas is bad? In possible contravention of long-standing international conventions on the prohibition of chemical and biological weapons, the Indian military has announced the addition to...
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Ukrainian PM: Politics "not women's business"
For anyone who just can't wait any longer for the premier of the next season of Mad Men, the next best thing might be following the Ukrainian political scene. Not to be outdone by President...
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Blair's gaffe
In a speech today at a Labour Party rally held in his old constituency of Sedgefield, former Prime Minister Tony Blair publicly threw his weight behind incumbent Prime Minister Gordon Brown. While...
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Kabul: the next Brooklyn?
Update: Thanks to a reader's comments, the post below has been edited to reflect that all three band members were born in Afghanistan. New York City has the National. Minneapolis-St. Paul has the Hold...
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Outlaw Blues
As anyone who's attended a Bob Dylan concert in the past decade knows, the man ain't what he used to be. But it's not just the music that's changed (many fans complain that during shows Dylan alters...
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South Korea experiments with video game curfew
Data rockets across South Korea's broadband network at an average clip of 14.58 megabits per second. This makes the country's network the fastest of any in the world. (In comparison, the average...
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Curious about other "might have been's"?
If this weekend's bungled car bombing in Times Square has got you thinking about other "might have been's," check out Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann's rundown of the most serious attempted...
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