Chelyabinsk, transportation hub and one-time Russian industrial center for weapons manufacture, was closed to foreigners until 1992. The combination of crisscrossing highways, a million-plus population and Russians’ fondness for dashboard cameras in vehicles to collect evidence in the event of...
CHELYABINSK, Russia, Feb 15 (Reuters) - A meteorite streaked across the sky and exploded over central Russia on Friday, raining fireballs over a vast area and causing a shock wave that smashed windows, damaged buildings and injured 1,200 people....
As a political issue, climate change has fallen off the US policy agenda due to an economic downturn and dogged insistence by climate-change naysayers that science has not produced enough evidence on whether human activity contributes to global warming. The United States stands as the “one...
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US immigration policies contribute to growth and prosperity and maintain population levels as the nation’s fertility rates decline. “During the country’s first century, Congress did not enact limits on immigration and migrants arrived from Europe, Africa and Asia,” explains demographer Joseph...
Fighting demographic trends: White US supporters of Donald Trump demonstrate against immigrants, and US detention centers remain full of undocumented migrants
NEW YORK: Historians credit immigration for contributing to US growth, but the phenomenon...
Fifty years ago, the world paused to gaze at transmissions of a feat that had once seemed unthinkable. Neil Armstrong was the first human to step on the surface of the Moon, meeting a goal set a decade earlier by US President John F. Kennedy. The astronaut’s first words on the Moon were eloquent...
Lunar odyssey: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin walks on the Moon, and the Apollo 11 lunar lander Eagle carries Neil Armstrong and Aldrin after their walk on the moon, against the backdrop of Earth (Source: NASA)
NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND: On July 20, 1969, Neil...
The United States is not alone in its pivot toward Asia. The Asia Pacific region is a center of bustling potential and security pitfalls. And China is the center of that region, notes Jean-Pierre Lehmann, international political economist. The United States claims its pivot is not intended to...
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrate $400 billion gas deal
HONG KONG: Only halfway through 2014 and it is clear the year will be remembered for a number of seismic shifts occurring in the Asia Pacific...
With the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), all fingers are pointing to China. World Health Organization Officials believe the disease spread more quickly because of China’s reluctance to admit that the disease originated in its Guangzhou region. The outbreak went undetected by...
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Fourteen years ago Myanmar’s National League for Democracy (NLD) won an election against Myanmar's incumbent military government. After the elections, however, the military annulled the results, leading the US to impose economic sanctions against Myanmar’s government. Economist Jeffrey Sachs...
The long saga of failed sanction regimes against Cuba, Haiti and Iraq - where sanctions gravely worsened an already bad situation - should give pause to the US and European political establishments. The US Congress...
Poland’s pending membership in the European Union should, in theory, offer great benefits to towns on the border between Germany and Poland. The divisions created in 1945 had severe economic consequences for some small border towns. EU membership for Poland and cross-border trade between these...
There are three divided towns along the German-Polish border: Frankfurt an der Oder, Guben in Brandenburg, and Görlitz in Saxony. All three are nestled on the Oder and Neisse rivers. Poland's accession to...
