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On his 10-day trip to Asia and in his 10th month in office, Barack Obama is beginning to encounter limits on his ambition to change the world. Even as he bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia in April and to the emperor of Japan...
By Carl Leubsdorf | The Dallas Morning News Political factors, as much as military ones, appear to be shaping President Barack Obama's long-pending decision on the next phase of the U.S. effort in Afghanistan. Repeated White...
Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev delivered another lofty message last week, speaking for a record one hour and forty minutes during his second State of the Nation Address. Medvedev reiterated the scathing analysis of Russia’s...
Fidel Castro is one of the 20th centuries most recognisable figures. This led Castro to move further towards the Soviet Union and to model his regime on those at that time existing in Eastern Europe, albeit with a distinctly...
Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985 and saw the Soviet Union falling apart. He first announced a vague reform plan that proposed increased productivity, technological modernization, and some reform of the Soviet...
It wasn't that long ago that a trip to the corner video shop was the most convenient way to get a movie. Instead of buying or renting the dvd, people now can choose a movie download instead. You can get virtually any movie you...
MOSCOW — Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is criticizing Kremlin policies and toying with the idea of attempting a political comeback. Gorbachev said Friday that corruption and over-dependence on oil exports has...
A rising China has not only inched closer to the US, it has also developed backward linkages - through the ‘disassembly line’ - with a host of other countries, including developed ones. Recently, China made a splash on the...
Paris, November 17, 2009 -- I was very struck watching television coverage of President Barack Obama on his Asian travels. On his arrivals and departure from the cities he visited, he descended and ascended the landing...
The problems faced by Soviet forces in Afghanistan carry echoes for Nato All the most senior ministers were at the Afghan strategy meeting. They knew things were not going well, but from their leader there was a whiff of panic....
