Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Algeria has been bolstering security for Western tourists. Algerian sources said the regime of President Abdul Aziz Bouteflika has approved the deployment of thousands of police and security officers over the next two weeks. They said the officers would help secure tourist facilities during Christmas and New Year’s in Algeria. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The Algerian-backed Polisario movement has expanded operations beyond Western Sahara. Analysts said Polisario has moved from Western Sahara into neighboring Mali. They said Polisario fighters killed one man and abducted another three in the first attack reported outside of Western Sahara. “This criminal act makes the situation explosive in the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com MOSCOW — Iran is believed to have ordered its agents to smuggle nuclear material from Russia. On Dec. 16, the Kremlin reported the seizure of radioactive material destined for Iran. The Federal Customs Service said 18 pieces of a radioactive isotope were found in the luggage of a passenger ready to board […]
Lev Navrozov By the autumn of 1917, Russia had become, culturally, a free society. The Russian 19th-century prose was intensely read in all culturally advanced countries, Chekhov’s plays were staged, several composers were considered classical, Chaliapin’s voice was admired… Now, since the autumn of 1917, Lenin, who was only for a short time in power, […]
Sol W. Sanders “Moderation in all things”, said a pre-Christian North African Roman dramatist, Terence [Publius Terentius Afer]. But like so many artists, he latched on to a beautiful artifact but got the logic wrong. He’s echoed these days in the oft repeated mantra from talking heads calling for compromise. It usually follows a description […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel has launched an advanced satellite into space orbit. Israel’s Spacecom has overseen the launch of its Amos-5 communications satellite, the first Israeli satellite manufactured in Russia. Executives said Amos-5 was transported aboard a Proton-M space launch vehicle, fired from Kazakhstan on Dec. 11. “Amos-5 will position Spacecom at […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has decided to ease sanctions on the new republic of South Sudan. The U.S. measure was implemented five months after South Sudan seceded from Khartoum in July. Sudan, on the U.S. State Department list of terrorist sponsors, has been under sanctions by Washington since 1997. Officials said […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Islamic operatives have formed a police force in Tunisia. The so-called Salafists have established what was termed a religious police force. The force, called “Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice,” was meant to be modeled after the religious police force in Saudi Arabia. “This is […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — The Gulf Cooperation Council has failed to approve membership applications for Jordan and Morocco. Officials acknowledged that the GCC was divided over whether to admit Jordan and Morocco amid rising tension with neighboring Iran. They said several of the six GCC members, including the United Arab Emirates, determined that […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — A Western energy major has suspended operations in Syria. France’s Total said it halted operations in Syria in wake of European Union sanctions on the regime of President Bashar Assad. The sanctions included that of Syria’s state-owned General Petroleum Corp., which owns 50 percent of Total’s partner in the Arab […]