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It would be an exaggeration to say that the United States has paid dearly for killing Osama bin Laden in Pakistan on May 2 without notifying the Pakistani government.
The G8 summit held in Deauville, France, on May 26 and 27 achieved no major breakthroughs but was surprisingly friendly
Until their recent meeting in Deauville, Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama had not met face to face since the APEC summit in Yokohama, Japan last November.
After Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili broke up an opposition rally in Tbilisi with rubber bullets, tear gas and clubs, Washington, which provided one billion dollars in aid to Saakashvili two years ago, was once again faced with the agonizing question of what to do with the "first democrat" of the Caucasus.
Acting entirely in character, Amnesty International, which incidentally turns 50 on May 28, has declared Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev "prisoners of conscience."1
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il arrived in Beijing on Wednesday morning in his standard armored train after a long tour of China's southern cities.
Since 2007 analysts have been predicting that the G8, the world's oldest and most elite political club, would collapse under the weight of a changing world. And yet the G8 has refused to fade away.
It was nice to survive Saturday, May 21 and not evaporate at 6 p.m. in the blazing inferno as predicted by Harold Camping, American preacher and guru of the Apocalypse.3
Palestinian and Libyan delegations left Moscow yesterday after causing quite a stir.
A recent summit in Tokyo among the three great Asian powers - Japan, South Korea and China - showed that Asia cannot be split into pro-China and anti-China camps because of economic and other realities, including Mother Nature herself.
U.S. President Barack Obama's call for a two-state solution with the 1967 borders as the basis has unleashed a diplomatic frenzy, including in Russia.2
In a major policy address on events in the Middle East at the State Department, President Barack Obama said the United States supports a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine based on the pre-war 1967 borders.
On May 20, 1991, the USSR Supreme Soviet (parliament) approved the law on the entry to and exit from the Soviet Union, which amounted to raising the Iron Curtain.
The arrest of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on charges of sexual assault and his subsequent resignation have left the IMF without a leader and France's Socialist Party without a strong candidate to run against Nicolas Sarkozy.
The biggest achievement of Sen. John Kerry's visit to Pakistan was the authorities' agreement to return the tail of the U.S. stealth helicopter that was damaged during the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad on May 2.1
Now, France has a new point of departure - before and after the alleged sex-assault scandal.
The U.S. space shuttle Endeavour took off on its penultimate mission (STS-134) on May 16 after having been postponed several times due to additional engineering preparations and malfunctions at the launch site in Florida.1
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund and potential presidential candidate (with a 90% chance of success) in France, was arrested in New York on charges of sexual assault.
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