LONDON, Saturday (AP) - A swanky hotel bar where a former Russian spy sipped tea before his poisoning death. A sushi restaurant where he ate a bowl of soup.
BELFAST, Saturday (AP) - Leaders of the Northern Ireland Assembly missed a long-billed deadline to strike a power-sharing deal and then fled as the province's most infamous militant stormed the building with a bagful of pipe bombs.
KATHMANDU, (AFP) -Nepalese guerrilla leader Prachanda's move into mainstream politics after signing up to the country's recent peace deal has brought unexpected scrutiny of his status as a pin-up.
The endless sufferings of Palestinians and the grabbing of their lands, which began with the advent of Zionist Jews in the 1930s, continue unabated even today, due to the blind support of the West and the indifference of the Arab regimes.
Some commentators opined that the Korean crisis in the 1950s was (as usual) solely a creation of the United States due to the fact that it prevented North Korean popular leader Kim Il Sung from winning the election by favouring the pro-American dictator Syngman Rhee thereby precipitating the Korean War which divided Korea and led to the current standoff.
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