manilastandard26d
The Making of Edgar Matobato
It is a wonder Edgar Matobato is still alive. A confessed assassin for the Davao Death Squad, he was the first to go public ...
Foreign Affairs20d
The Cold War Putin Wants
Even as Erdogan plays friends with Putin, he has outplayed him in Damascus. According to one Turkish expert ... Similar if less drastic staffing problems plague the medical and other sectors. The ...
frontierindia22d
Jodhpur Lancers: A History of the Legendary Rajput Cavalry
Sir Pratap Singh and Maharaja were mentioned in dispatches and most of 1915 were spent on training, holding trenches, and dismounted and mounted training that was very useful later in Palestine in ...
Reuters4d
Chemical weapons agency chief says Damascus meetings first step towards improved ties
DAMASCUS, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said on Saturday meetings he had with Syria's new leaders in Damascus were a first step towards ...
Reuters5d
Chemical weapons agency chief to meet Syrian officials in Damascus on Saturday, sources say
OPCW head expected to meet Syrian interim president Previous Assad government hindered chemical weapons inspections DAMASCUS, Feb 7 (Reuters) - The head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of ...
Neue Zürcher Zeitung26d
Post-Assad, Damascus is coming back to life. But Syria’s artists fear a new clampdown under Islamist rule
But as the manager of the Madad cultural center in Damascus, the trained lighting technician has reason to worry. On New Year’s Eve, armed men stormed the historic stone building. «They told me ...
Smithsonian Magazine5d
On This Day in 1900, the Bubonic Plague Hit the Continental United States, Spiraling Into an Epidemic That Killed 119 People
California officials denied—and tried to hide—the first plague epidemic that reached U.S. shores Sarah Holzmann Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague infections, all stemming from the ...