After a solid week of shelling in Homs, the international community is still scrambling for a plan. Also, Nicolas Sarkozy’s re-election bid steers right and Britain marks milestones for Queen Elizabeth and literary (and journalism) giant Charles Dickens.
As the crackdown in Homs gets even more brutal, François Picard’s panel weighs up the feasibility of a safe haven near the Turkish border and rues the frustrating lack of an immediate solution for stopping the killing.
As the crackdown in Homs becomes even more brutal, François Picard’s panel weighs up the feasibility of a safe haven near the Turkish border and rues the frustrating lack of an immediate solution for stopping the killing.
In an apparent response to recent protests, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin acknowledged in an article published Monday that Russia must “renew the mechanisms of its democracy”, but added it could not copy a foreign model.
Thousands of demonstrators have braved sub-zero temperatures to take to the streets of Moscow in protest against the rule of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, whose supporters are holding their own rally in the Russian capital.
Thousands of demonstrators are expected to brave Moscow's sub-freezing temperatures on Saturday to protest against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as he seeks a third term as president.
Russian ex-paratroopers voicing their opposition to Vladimir Putin. In the US, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are caught up in a veritable online war of words. And flying humans have been spotted in the New York skies.
Could the Kremlin be abandoned by the Russian Orthodox Church? When ordinary Russians began protesting against the Kremlin last year, Patriarch Kirill spoke of revolutions triggering a "blood bath". The Church tried to dissuade protesters from taking to the streets and openly supported the Kremlin. But now the wind seems to be changing...
Pro-Kremlin activists try, and fail, to smear an opposition figure’s reputation. Protesters in Germany are calling for President Christian Wulff’s resignation. And the Israeli authorities are using Facebook to advertise an anti-drug campaign.
Russian Orthodox Church leader Patriarch Kirill urged authorities Saturday to respond to mass anti-government protests, which alleged vote-rigging in December polls won by Vladmir Putin's party.
