Birth of “New Year”
Did you know that original Roman calendar had only ten named months? That the year before the addition of two months – the ‘new year’ began in March? Did you know months ‘July’ and ‘August’ are named More...
In Kerry, Obama picks foreign policy leader, loyal stalwart
Report by Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON | Sat Dec 22, 2012 3:24pm EST (Reuters) – John Kerry gave up his presidential dreams after a narrow loss to Republican George W. Bush in the 2004 U.S. election, but More...
Putin backs tit-for-tat response to U.S. rights law
Report by Alexei Anishchuk and Timothy Heritage MOSCOW | Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:15pm EST (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin backed a ban on Americans adopting Russian children on Thursday in a feud over a More...
U.S., rebels urge gloomy Moscow to help oust Assad
Report by Oliver Holmes, BEIRUT | Thu Dec 13, 2012 6:14pm EST (Reuters) – Syria’s rebel leadership and the United States seized on Russian pessimism over President Bashar al-Assad’s future to More...
Exhibition celebrates millennium of Russian-German ties
Report by Gareth Jones, BERLIN | Wed Dec 12, 2012 12:20pm EST (Reuters) – From beeswax and birch bark to war booty and gas pipelines, an exhibition now showing in Berlin chronicles the long, colorful and More...
In Syrian sanctions, some gains but much uncertainty
Two months into anti-government protests in Syria last year, as the military crackdown grew more vicious, the European Union and United States introduced sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad, his security More...
Nehru sat unmoved as Pakistan took Gilgit
Column by Sandhya Jain Indian intellectuals are having difficulty facing two overlapping anniversaries, viz., October 27, when Lord Louis Mountbatten accepted the hurried Accession by Maharaja Hari Singh after Pakistan’s More...
Assad’s forces accused of massacre near Syrian capital
(Reuters) – Syrian opposition activists accused President Bashar al-Assad’s forces on Sunday of committing a massacre of scores of people in a town close to the capital that the army had just retaken More...
Underground sect found after nearly a decade in Russia’s Kazan
Seventy members of an Islamist sect who have been living in an underground bunker without heat or sunlight for nearly a decade have been discovered living on the outskirts of the city of Kazan in Russia, local More...
Syria rebels say fighting army in Salaheddine
Syrian rebels said they had regained control over parts of a strategic district of Aleppo on Thursday after countering a sustained assault by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces seeking to retake Syria’s More...
