This is important:Turkey and Armenia, whose century of hostilities constitutes one of the world’s most enduring and acrimonious international rivalries, have agreed to establish diplomatic relations, the two countries announced Monday.In a breakthrough that came after a year of tiny steps across a still-sealed border...
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There are currently 10 living Secretaries of State of the United States, active or retired. Unless I'm terribly wrong, this is a new recordties the old record, set between 1993.
It appears that the Bush administration's effort to diplomatically "lock in" a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic has failed:Russia has dropped plans to install missiles near.
I suspect that Eric Martin may be suggesting too much of a distinction here:ABC News is reporting today that General Petraeus has been pushing for a meeting with Syria's leadership but the Bush administration has refused...As Daniel Levy mentioned recently, Petraeus and Pentagon leadership have...
I can't be the only one to think that this cover art is just... fabulous in so many ways. In other stuff that you should be reading:Doug Muir on Zviad.
From Vanessa at Feministing:In the midst of a trade discussion in 1973 with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Chinese leader Mao Zedong offered sending Chinese women to the United States as as a trade, saying: "We don't have much. What we have in excess is...
Charli at Duck has an interesting notion:One of the articles I read as I prepped for this trip suggested that either the Holy See should lose this status or, to.