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Local official: Belgian journalists, villagers scuffle in China’s AIDS zone
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ZHENGZHOU, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) — An investigation is in progress into an incident in which three Belgian journalists scuffled with villagers in central China’s AIDS zone on Nov. 27, a provincial government spokesman said on Tuesday. [.....]
      

Tom Van de Weghe and his crew were attacked in a rural area of Henan province while interviewing people suffering from AIDS, according to the Foreign Correspondents Club of China on Thursday, according to boxun.com.
According to a statement on the Foreign Correspondents Club website,
Van de Weghe, his cameraman and assistant were beaten up and robbed [...]

In February 1972, Dr Vitaly A. Rubin, a Senior Research Fellow in Chinese Studies at Moscow’s Institute of Oriental Studies, applied for an exit visa to emigrate to Israel. Rubin was Jewish, educated in the orthodox tradition of his people. Following his visa application, he was pressured into resigning his position at the Institute, his [...]

India and Turkey are discussing the use of the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan (TPC) pipeline as a shortcut for Russian oil supplies to India, reports Today’s Zaman. The oil from Russia is currently shipped across the Black Sea and the Turkish Straits - the latter are bottlenecks because the limit on cargo allowed to pass through the Turkish Straits is [...]

Everything you ever wanted to know about Germans.
      

“I’ve looked recently at some of the research findings about attitudes to international affairs in America and Europe, and the thing which is most encouraging is the finding that the majority of Americans, even after the Iraq war, want Europe to play a larger part in sharing in world leadership. They even want that when [...]

About Barack Obama
I’ve been passionately interested since early in the primaries. I started writing about Senator Obama and supporting him, I guess, quite early. Partly because he is such an intelligent and cool cucumber. I thought the way he responded early on to the Pastor Wright affair was quite extraordinary. Normally what happens with politicians these [...]

We traveled to Europe this past September to have a look and visit some family. Our travels included Amsterdam, Hannover, Bremen, Vienna and Paris.
First rule of thumb… Bring LOTS of money! Expensive is the keyword for Europe. No, make that VERY expensive. Just be prepared to spend $300 a day for bare necessities. While Europe [...]