Provides the latest RSS feeds for General Editorials. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Russia Herald.com http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/cat/45d771c7290844e9/ en-us Wed, 22 May 2013 11:27:40 -0400 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:27:40 -0400 30 In this photo supplied by the Government Communications and Information Services (GCIS) South African President Jacob Zuma, right, and Governor General of Canada, David Johnston attend a welcoming ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa, on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. (Elmond ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689892/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:35:26 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689892/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Director Steven Soderbergh had been looking for a way to frame a film about the extravagant entertainer Liberace for years when a friend recommended the ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689813/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:30:55 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689813/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Just days after voters go to the municipal polls Oct. 21, Stephen Mandel will step down as mayor of Edmonton. And nearly everyone in this city will wish him well.Edmonton has enjoyed quite a ride with Mandel, and as the mayor prepares to leave public office, those who will soon jockey to succeed him must know they have a tough act to follow.The capital is a better, bolder and more sophisticated ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214690990/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:14:59 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214690990/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Konstantin Sonin Judging by the current debate on education in Russia's schools and universities, it might seem that the most pressing problems are the need for a mandatory reading list and a uniform history textbook for schools, along with the personality traits of the education minister. I admit that these questions are interesting to discuss, but as a university professor who also ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214690991/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:05:53 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214690991/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Whenever talk turns to the Cold War, it calls up memories of the superpower standoff, the arms race, regional conflicts, the constant threat of enemy missile launches and, of course, the way the Soviet Union lost the Cold War when its economy and technological prowess collapsed in 1991. But at the same time that the Soviet Union was engaged in a Cold War with the West, it was fighting an even ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214690992/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:05:50 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214690992/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Martha White Tilbury House, $22.95, 178 pages, illustratedSince the first dog warily entered the first cave, the relationship between man and beast has been intriguing to man, and perhaps to beast as well. A key to the relationship has been a dog’s dependence on its master for food and board, in return for which it is expected to provide companionship, admiration and occasionally other ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689382/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 09:19:19 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689382/scat/45d771c7290844e9 In the not-too-distant future, video calling is likely to be a standard feature in Web browsers, potentially turning every website into a virtual phone booth or party ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689394/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 08:49:00 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689394/scat/45d771c7290844e9 A new government report singles out Los Angeles County's Twin Towers as having one of the worst rates of inmate-on-inmate sexual assault of any men's jail in the nation. One in 20 inmates held there reported that he had been victimized by another inmate while in custody, far higher than the national average of 1 in 60, according to the Department of ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689395/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 08:48:59 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689395/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Treasury Department 's inspector general asked that latter question of the IRS brass, and they said no - but he didn't demand their emails and phone ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689396/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 08:48:58 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689396/scat/45d771c7290844e9 At a demonstration near the Spanish parliament on April 18, a housing rights activist joked that the crowd should divide up with terrorists on one side and Nazis on the other. Everyone laughed, but there is a dark side to his sarcasm. Since March, local and national politicians have used every name in the book to delegitimize the Platform for Mortgage Victims, a grass-roots movement that has ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214688487/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 08:37:27 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214688487/scat/45d771c7290844e9 ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214688256/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 08:33:42 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214688256/scat/45d771c7290844e9 The 50th-anniversary celebration of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and its successor, the African Union (AU), at the biannual heads-of-state summit next week is an important milestone. But, while they are celebrating, Africa's leaders should also do some serious reflection on why they haven't made sufficient progress on human rights. The AU should use this gathering to call on ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214687921/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 07:27:34 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214687921/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Breitbart ,'; which was released digitally and in theaters last week across the United States, I had the distinct and unique privilege of ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214686570/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 06:59:14 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214686570/scat/45d771c7290844e9 View results ';Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.';This ancient admonition, commonly attributed to William Shakespeare but actually the work of Sir Walter Scott, now applies to how Barack Obama’s White House has been in a full cover-up mode over the widening Internal Revenue Service scandal.One week after the bombshell story broke that the tax ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214686569/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 06:59:13 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214686569/scat/45d771c7290844e9 View results Protecting U.S. diplomats from terrorists on foreign soil is one thing. Protecting terrorism-sponsoring diplomats on U.S. soil quite another. The U.S. State Department is under heavy fire for failing at the job abroad.A diplomat from a nation that the United States officially classifies as a state sponsor of terrorism, however, has no complaints against the State Department’s ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214686568/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 06:59:13 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214686568/scat/45d771c7290844e9 View results Every four years, the Islamic Republic of Iran engages in a closely choreographed farce of elections, aimed at maintaining the illusion that the Iranian people have a say in how their country is governed.By all accounts, the farce has been successful - with Americans, if not with Iranians themselves. On June 14, the election show is set for another replay.In February 2003, Deputy ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214686571/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 06:59:12 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214686571/scat/45d771c7290844e9 View results Anyone who reads a daily newspaper such as The Washington Times will regularly see references to public opinion polls. The polling data gathered from trends and insights has historically provided helpful guidance for consumers, academics and businesses.Unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to be the case quite as much with politics. Today’s polls are becoming increasingly ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214686573/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 06:59:11 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214686573/scat/45d771c7290844e9 View results The Obama administration has an enemies list, and John Dodson was on it. The special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) infuriated his superiors by alerting Congress and everyone else about the government’s gunrunning scheme called Fast and Furious. He had to pay for his act of good citizenship.The Justice Department’s inspector ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214686572/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 06:59:11 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214686572/scat/45d771c7290844e9 I met Fatuma in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, late last year. A few days before we met, she had been raped by an armed militia man while she slept in one of the city’s camps for displaced people. She told me that she had nowhere to turn for redress. Months earlier, 13-year old Abdi told me how he had been kidnapped from school by armed Islamists from al-Shabaab and forced to serve in ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214683845/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 04:04:29 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214683845/scat/45d771c7290844e9 By Aung Tun Myanmar president Thein Sein was received at the White House this week, marking the first time in 47 years a leader of the Southeast Asian country has made an official visit to the United States. US-based observers are understandably confused about Myanmar's military-guided path towards democratization, particularly after the recent eruption of communal violence between ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214684575/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 04:02:10 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214684575/scat/45d771c7290844e9 By Pepe Escobar Nothing will be left to chance - even the hint of a green protest wave. In 2009, 475 candidates registered to run for Iran's presidency. Only four were approved by the Guardian Council - the all-powerful, vetting clerical committee. This year, no fewer than 686 registered for the upcoming June 14 elections. Eight were approved. Among them, one won't find the two ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214684576/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 04:02:10 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214684576/scat/45d771c7290844e9 By Francesco Sisci BEIJING - Does young North Korean leader Kim Jong-eun want a different future for himself and his country, or does he think he can spend the next half a century (his probable lifespan) imitating the threats, blackmail, and moves of his father, while physically resembling his grandfather? Nobody is sure about the future, especially so far ahead. One can say, as the song ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214684574/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 04:02:10 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214684574/scat/45d771c7290844e9 if you are interested in contributing. In the latest complication of territorial disputes in the South China Sea, Taiwan has imposed diplomatic and economic sanctions on the Philippines. Taipei has rejected Philippine President Benigno Aquino's informal apology after the crew of a Philippine Coast Guard vessel shot dead a Taiwanese fisherman on May 9 in the Bashi Channel where the two ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214684578/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 04:02:10 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214684578/scat/45d771c7290844e9 By David Brown It's time for Taiwan's exclusion from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to end. ICAO's mission is to promote the safe and orderly development of civil aviation by setting the standards and regulations necessary for aviation safety and security. Finding a way for Taiwan to participate is essential to achieving these objectives. Taiwan is the ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214684577/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 04:02:09 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214684577/scat/45d771c7290844e9 if you are interested in contributing. "If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, in revolution it is both virtue and terror: virtue without terror is fatal; terror without virtue is powerless." - Maximilien Robespierre speaking to France's National Convention, 1794 If the French Revolution gave the world a new and enlightened but terrorist means of ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214684579/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 04:02:09 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214684579/scat/45d771c7290844e9 The illegal abortion trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell horrified the nation. Gosnell was found guilty of delivering late-term live babies in abortion attempts and then killing them by snipping their spines. A co-worker said that, after aborting a 30 week fetus, Gosnell joked that the child was so big it could "walk to the ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214681821/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 02:18:02 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214681821/scat/45d771c7290844e9 In the war of businessmen against the people, the businessmen seem to have won the battle for collecting sales tax on products purchased from out-of-state sellers. A federal law sponsored by state business interests will require the appropriate state sales tax to be collected on Internet purchases. The state governments see this as a windfall because the voluntary sales tax doesn't seem to ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214681822/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 02:18:01 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214681822/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Dan Liljenquist's gleeful recounting of adversity in the Obama presidency is unfortunate ("Chaffetz's search for truth in Benghazi paid off," May 16). Extremism on the left and on the right is much the same. Salient in both are fear and hate of an "other" and detachment of reality. Where extremism errs is in its rigid dichotomy of paired opposites, like friend and ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214682587/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 02:18:00 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214682587/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Everyone expects the government to step in and help the victims of this most recent tornado as it has in the other recent natural disasters. I applaud the quick response of our government — the purpose of government is to protect its citizens. But according to the ranting and raving of a few, that does not include protecting them when illness occurs. Please explain to me the difference ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214682588/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 02:17:59 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214682588/scat/45d771c7290844e9 India and China together account for about 38 percent of the world's 7-billion-plus population. Because these Asian giants share a border, the whole planet holds its breath if they are at each other's throats, as they were again earlier this ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214681825/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 02:17:58 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214681825/scat/45d771c7290844e9 For a century, the Boy Scouts of America has provided the young men of Utah an unparalleled program of character development through outdoor adventure, leadership training and service. The state's communities have benefited enormously — not just from the untold hours of service — but from the values of the Scout Oath and Law that have been instilled into the hearts of so many. ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214681826/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 02:17:57 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214681826/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Enlarge A cell at the Pinellas County jail, an adult facility where young people are held in solitary confinement. One girl interviewed for the report said she spent four months in isolation ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214682589/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 01:50:37 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214682589/scat/45d771c7290844e9 David Beckham spent six years in the U.S. with the LA Galaxy before returning to Europe earlier this year. The most unforgiving criticism in sport is directed at any athlete who fans believe is celebrated too excessively above his true talent level -- especially those stars who are gloried because they're such pretty people. To wit: As David Beckham retires, so much attention is ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214679806/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 22 May 2013 00:07:05 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214679806/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Angela was 11 years old when a court in Australia ordered that her uterus be removed. Why? Because Angela has Rett syndrome, a neurological disorder resulting in severe intellectual and physical impairments, and epilepsy. A judge decided that it was in her "best interests" to have a hysterectomy. The decision to start a family is a deeply personal one, and one that these days is often ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214680563/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:31:52 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214680563/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Two seemingly unrelated stories in the news - marriage equality and Angelina Jolie’s preventive mastectomies - have a connection for some Minnesotans. Many members of state’s adoption community have sought for decades to regain the right of adult adoptees to have access to their original birth certificates. Our attempts to restore this right, which was taken away in the 1940s under ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214678756/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:00:46 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214678756/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Last week, I decided I wanted a Reuben sandwich, and I was missing sauerkraut. For my Reubens, not just any sauerkraut will do. So I got in my car, strapped myself in, drove to the co-op that carries it and paid an ungodly amount for The Best Sauerkraut In The World. I got home, laid out my ingredients, and started drooling at the prospect of my delicious, most-craved Reuben. And then I ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214678757/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:00:45 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214678757/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: Re ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214690987/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 22:14:58 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214690987/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: On behalf of the more than 150 extraordinary journalists at The Times-Picayune and its Web site, NOLA.com, I want to assure David Carr that we are not the ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214690989/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 22:14:58 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214690989/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: Citing remarks I made at the Sohn Conference, Jesse Eisinger has it right that I am critical of the Federal ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214690988/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 22:14:58 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214690988/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: Re ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689392/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 22:14:58 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689392/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214688139/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 22:14:58 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214688139/scat/45d771c7290844e9 The bipartisan immigration bill that passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday has many serious hurdles ahead. It is the most serious and worthy attempt to fix immigration in a generation, but it cannot help reflecting the poisoned politics of today, with its heavy tilt toward needless border enforcement and a deficiency in equal rights. In the most moving and wrenching moment in ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689389/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 22:00:25 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689389/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Networks are generally leery of shows that are set in the past. TV executives think younger viewers ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689388/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:53:55 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689388/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Mark Dayton and DFL leaders are wasting little time to extol their "accomplishments" of this year’s legislative session. We, not surprisingly, have a different take and a lot of questions. Why did legislators raise permanent taxes by more than $2 billion to resolve a $627 million short-term deficit? They could have adopted a balanced approach by going through the budget line by ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214677780/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:50:25 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214677780/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Images and text copyright © 2013 by Trib Total Media, Inc. Reproduction or reuse prohibited without written consent. Advertising Information ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214678598/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:25:29 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214678598/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: Fangirls feel sorry for "Jahar," the nickname he used as a Twitter handle and that is now part of dozens of hashtags (#FreeJahar is a favorite), Facebook pages and Tumblr ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214678599/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:24:31 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214678599/scat/45d771c7290844e9 "They don’t care about us," the Somali woman told us. "They don’t rescue us when the women are crying for help." She was describing the people who controlled her camp for displaced people in the capital city, Mogadishu. In fact, the voices of Somalia’s displaced have been regularly ignored, and often actively silenced. It is an important time to listen to ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214677867/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:12:14 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214677867/scat/45d771c7290844e9 For this Op-Doc video, we visited a small community in Florida known as ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689387/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:11:47 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689387/scat/45d771c7290844e9 With the decision to label a Fox News television reporter a possible ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689386/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:10:09 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689386/scat/45d771c7290844e9 SANLIURFA, Turkey ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689385/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:09:14 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689385/scat/45d771c7290844e9 EDMOND, Okla. ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214688946/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:07:36 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214688946/scat/45d771c7290844e9 LONDON ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214678834/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:07:07 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214678834/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Minneapolis police chief, she told the Star Tribune Editorial Board that her priorities for the department included transparency. In fact, the motto "Commitment, Integrity, Transparency" appears on most correspondence from her office. Earlier this month, she faced one of her first big tests in community relations. Two Minneapolis police officers were shot and two young men died ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214676707/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:41:20 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214676707/scat/45d771c7290844e9 The devastation caused by Monday’s massive tornado through parts of Oklahoma City and its suburbs calls upon Washingtonians to lend a helping ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214677602/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:32:59 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214677602/scat/45d771c7290844e9 SNOHOMISH County Executive Aaron Reardon’s voluntary departure from his elected post should be acknowledged by more than a startling paragraph in a routine speech. Two months ago in a State of the County address, Reardon announced he would step down May 31. That was pretty much it. He owes county residents a more formal, and pragmatic departure. Reardon should not compound a string of ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214676708/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:25:47 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214676708/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Every year on May 17, people all around the world celebrate the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia, while reflecting how to achieve full equality and non-discrimination. In Cameroon, a young man was sentenced to three years in prison for sending a text message to another man, saying "I’ve fallen in love with you." The young man’s brave lawyer received ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214677603/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:04:34 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214677603/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Two and perhaps all three of the recusals weren't necessary. The commissioner with what appears to be the strongest potential conflict, Mike Scott, hasn't recused ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214676685/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:02:23 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214676685/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Photo credit: Mayita Mendez, 2002 On a memorable day 11 years ago, grateful Oklahomans donated a red and white rescue truck to the New York City Fire Department, purchased with money donated by schoolkids and adults. Called the Spirit of Oklahoma, the truck was the Sooner State's way of thanking the FDNY for its help in 1995 with search and recovery work after a terrorist bomb claimed 168 ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214675647/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 19:20:05 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214675647/scat/45d771c7290844e9 OKLAHOMA CITY ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214688945/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 17:50:47 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214688945/scat/45d771c7290844e9 report issued last week documents 59 of these unlawful air strikes in northern Syria. They started in July and are still going on, seemingly intensifying with sunny weather. Some of the air strikes we documented seem to have deliberately targeted civilians. For example, repeated attacks on bakeries strongly indicate that the government intended to hit them. Hospitals seem to have been targeted ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214675306/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 17:42:37 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214675306/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689384/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:02 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689384/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Immigration advocates gather outside the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Senate Hart Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, April 22, 2013, as they wait to attend the committee's hearing on comprehensive immigration reform ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214671273/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 16:58:36 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214671273/scat/45d771c7290844e9 The first lesson taught in the School for Autocrats is to keep people isolated. When people join together to advance a political perspective, they gain confidence in their views and power in their collective voice. But when society is atomized, fear is more likely to dominate, and individuals acting alone have a harder time making their voices heard. A common way for people to join together is ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214672448/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 16:31:09 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214672448/scat/45d771c7290844e9 CNN that the much beloved telescope, which ';has found more than 2,700 possible planets orbiting stars other than our Sun, of which more than 100 have been confirmed,'; may be nearing the end of its life now that ';the second of four of the Kepler spacecraft's reaction wheels, which aim the vessel's instruments, appears to have failed. It remains to be seen whether full ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214669525/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:46:45 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214669525/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Later, Buddhism brings in bhakti as a valid source of knowledge and therefore moksha, but surprisingly avoids aesthetic discourse and does not advocate the undertaking of aesthetic experience despite the fact that Buddhists were the most prolific image makers and mural painters. Asvaghosa's Budhacharita is considered to be one of the first poetic compositions in Sanskrit, rich with ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214670674/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:41:57 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214670674/scat/45d771c7290844e9 "Two decades ago, you could have simply polarised people in the name of caste, community or religion and won elections — times have changed ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214670675/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:41:55 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214670675/scat/45d771c7290844e9 One of the biggest casualties of the recently washed out budget session of Parliament is the 119th Amendment Bill to the Constitution. The amendment relates to the 1974 India-Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement (LBA); the protocol for this was inked during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Dhaka in September 2011. Should the amendment pass muster in Parliament, it would operationalise ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214670676/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:41:54 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214670676/scat/45d771c7290844e9 collapse of the Rana Plaza building on more than 1,000 workers, which made it the deadliest ever catastrophe in the history of the garment industry. Last November, a garment factory fire killed more than 100 people. So the tannery worker’s assessment sounds like a sick joke. But the truth is it was a realistic assessment of the deplorable health and safety conditions in Bangladesh. Indeed, ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214670677/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:17:38 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214670677/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Looking back at its last review, the concerns seem almost quaint. The experts who make up the committee reminded the British government that the prohibition on torture applied to its forces in Iraq and overseas interrogations. But it knew, and nongovernmental organizations concerned with the subject knew, little or nothing of the scale of abuse that British agents and soldiers were already ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214670678/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:17:36 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214670678/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Republican politicians and activists can barely contain their glee at the simultaneous eruption of three major controversies about the Obama administration. Conservatives are at a low boil over the administration’s dissembling about its actions after the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. The public is concerned about the targeting of conservative groups by the ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214667922/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 14:44:16 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214667922/scat/45d771c7290844e9 "They own the place," GOP state Rep. Pat Garofalo sarcastically said of labor unions Monday, as pro-union forces loudly celebrated the House's 68-66 vote to authorize state-paid child care providers and personal care attendants to organize a union. The contentious unionization issue was indeed a big-deal, long-sought victory for the state's union movement. It's seen as a ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214667921/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 14:44:16 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214667921/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Musically speaking, Richard Wagner is one of the greatest talents that the Western tradition has ever produced. He not only redefined the nature of opera, he also reshaped the basics of music itself, laying the groundwork for everyone from Debussy to Strauss to Schoenberg. And all this, of course, while writing some shiveringly wonderful ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214667918/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 14:24:49 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214667918/scat/45d771c7290844e9 There are difficulties in identifying suspects. The taint sticks even if charges are never brought, proponents of anonymity argue, citing the swathe of ageing TV personalities paraded across front pages thanks to Operation Yewtree. The alternative is so much worse, however. Not only because naming names may embolden other victims to come forward, as the Stuart Hall case amply illustrated. There ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214667917/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 14:24:48 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214667917/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Russia's economic growth rate is causing serious concern. The fundamental problem is that Russia has almost reached full capacity. Growth is likely to stay low until Russia undertakes profound systemic reforms, but no such reforms are on the agenda. Russia's gross domestic product grew reasonably well at 4.3 percent in 2010 and 2011. The growth rate dropped to 3.4 percent in 2012 and ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214669190/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 14:14:05 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214669190/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Science has been a black hole for taxpayers' money. Governments of all stripes agree that science is something they should fund without knowing very much about it. They maintain Crown research institutes for the needs of primary industries and for studying the country's weather, geology, minerals and the like. They also fund research in universities and hospitals with few questions ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214668339/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:30:00 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214668339/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper points to the door as he speaks to members of Caucus on Parliament Hill Tuesday May 21, 2013 in Ottawa. (Adrian ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214665617/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:27:40 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214665617/scat/45d771c7290844e9 expulsion as a spy of a U.S. Embassy employee in Moscow last week. The Russian Federal Security Service, known as the FSB, said that Ryan C. Fogle was caught red-handed trying to recruit one of its officers, carrying cash, a letter, a compass, a map, sunglasses and two wigs. We don’t know what Fogle was doing, but the story sounds fishy. Back in the 1970s, perhaps, a CIA case officer would ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214665496/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:26:22 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214665496/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Yulia Latynina One month after the Tsarnaev brothers detonated bombs at the Boston Marathon, Moscow authorities arrested a U.S. citizen they suspected of being a spy. We are told that Ryan Fogle, a U.S. diplomat with the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, attempted to recruit an FSB officer who traveled with U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agents to the North Caucasus to investigate ties the ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214667495/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:55:01 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214667495/scat/45d771c7290844e9 The demise of the Roman Empire resulted from a combination of strategic overreach and excessive delegation of security responsibilities to newcomers. Without making undue comparisons, the question for the U.S. today is whether it can remain the world's leading power while delegating to others or to technological tools the task of protecting its global influence. Using nonhuman weapons such ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214667496/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:54:58 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214667496/scat/45d771c7290844e9 reported recently that the CIA routinely provides cash payments to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, totaling in the tens of millions of dollars, many were surprised. I wasn't among them. The Karzai scandal cycle has developed a certain amount of redundancy: his odd outbursts, his family's endless corruption, the vacillating positions on peace negotiations and about faces on the Taliban ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214667497/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:44:38 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214667497/scat/45d771c7290844e9 No trumpets blared or crowds cheered Monday night as the 2013 Legislature’s regular session drew to a close. Weary legislators are expected to troop home today to confront mixed responses to the year’s labors. We share that ambivalence, and concede that it may spring from expectations that were too high. This year’s return to all-DFL control at the Capitol after 22 years of ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214663704/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:14:14 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214663704/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Recently, opponents of deportations held a rally to commemorate the five-year anniversary of what they call an unjust immigration sweep of 389 people in a kosher meat-packing plant in Postville, Iowa. Last July, three people breached security and entered a nuclear facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn., housing highly enriched uranium, where they spilled blood at the site before being arrested. Last ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214663703/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:14:13 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214663703/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Abrams' hyperactive movie talked fast and walked fast -- when it wasn't at a dead run. Indeed, in its breakneck pace and its camera-flare and whip-pan-loving ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214663705/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:10:06 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214663705/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Beth Lapides (with music director-producer Mitch Kaplan) is the founder and ringmaster at UnCabaret, a Los Angeles comedy institution that's marking its 25th anniversary this ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214663706/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:10:05 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214663706/scat/45d771c7290844e9 keep doing that. Metronomes not in sync with the table have their motions dampened, then countered, until they do it "the table's way." Eventually all the metronomes come into alignment. That's what you saw in our small, chamber music version. Now we're going symphonic. This time, we'll have a much bigger table with 32 brightly colored metronomes -- a Mormon ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214663709/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:10:05 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214663709/scat/45d771c7290844e9 panel of experts convened by the Institute of Medicine says limiting salt below a certain amount may not really do us any good. Around here, we take this to mean: Eat as much salt as you can or you'll die. So, we've created The Saltwich, made with the saltiest foods we could find. Salami, bacon, pickles and salt-and-vinegar potato chips, on salty pretzel bread. Salt to ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214664928/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:10:05 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214664928/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Comedian, writer, director, producer and actor Mel Brooks is one of only 11 people to have won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards. Others in the elite EGOT club include Mike Nichols and Whoopi ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214663708/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:10:04 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214663708/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: We tend to divide treatments for mental illness into ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689383/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:15:47 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214689383/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Myanmar's rapidly evolving political landscape produced another symbolic event at the recent Armed Forces Day parade. Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi attended for the first time, sitting alongside generals in the viewing stands as thousands of troops, tanks, and missiles passed by. An open question is who needed who more -- a deeply unpopular military seeking the aura of an ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214663979/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:33:57 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214663979/scat/45d771c7290844e9 However, in order to gather evidence against Kim, FBI Agent Reginald Reyes filed an affidavit in federal court indicating there was evidence that Rosen (who was not mentioned by name in the affidavit) had broken the law "at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator." Nearly four years later, Rosen has not been charged with a crime, but indicating there was a ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214662215/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:28:11 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214662215/scat/45d771c7290844e9 As we debate our role in the world today, it is worth asking how American global primacy came about in the last century. After all, George Washington celebrated our ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214661993/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:26:50 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214661993/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Regarding the article ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214662398/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:48:44 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214662398/scat/45d771c7290844e9 With any luck, the campaign for mayor of Los Angeles will end Tuesday in a decisive victory for one candidate or the other. Then the winner can begin the task of building an administration and filling the ranks of commission appointments that will form the city's leadership core for the next four - or possibly eight - years. But this is a close race, and many residents have voted by mail or ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214661893/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:21:01 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214661893/scat/45d771c7290844e9 The Supreme Court should rule that prayers in official meetings in Greece, N.Y., shouldn't favor a particular religion. Public bodies should stick to secular ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214661892/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:21:00 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214661892/scat/45d771c7290844e9 David Axelrod defended the administration on the grounds that the "government is so vast" the president "can't know" what's going on "underneath" him. Of course, it was Obama who once said, "I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors." In a matter of weeks, the president went from saying the "government is ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214661891/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:20:59 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214661891/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Why would Apple executives try to avoid paying billions in taxes in the United States and around the world? Patrick Chappatte is an editorial cartoonist for the International Herald Tribune. View more of his work, visit his Web site or follow him on ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214663299/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:18:24 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214663299/scat/45d771c7290844e9 View results In 1987, Ronald Reagan mused that if the world were about to be devastated by an alien force - perhaps a collision with a large asteroid - peoples of all nations, ideological persuasions and political parties would come together to save the planet and our civilization. We may be about to test that proposition.At the moment, no asteroid is known to be hurtling our way. A naturally ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214660559/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:42:42 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214660559/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Justice Department secretly collected the phone records of four of my former colleagues at The Associated Press, I was one of the first reporters to have his home phone records and personal mail gathered by ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214660560/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:42:42 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214660560/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Mr. Pruitt , ';if you talk to the press, we’re going to go after you.';The FBI did obtain a warrant before demanding that Google turn over the personal emails ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214660563/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:42:41 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214660563/scat/45d771c7290844e9 David Axelrod , one of President Obama’s most amusing spinners. He recently opined - if that is the right term - that the government the president leads is so ';vast'; that the president cannot be expected to know, much less be accountable for, what goes on in it. Imagine that. This is the same man who wants to grow that same government and to give the same agency that prompted ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214660562/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:42:41 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214660562/scat/45d771c7290844e9 City Council in Takoma Park, Md., prides itself as living on the cutting edge of liberalism. The small town bristles at life in the left-leaning shadow of the District of Columbia, and often tries to go one small step further left. Takoma Park has declared itself a ';nuclear-free zone'; and a ';sanctuary city'; for illegal aliens. Foie gras is banned in restaurants (goose ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214660561/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:42:41 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214660561/scat/45d771c7290844e9 U.S. Department of Agriculture this month took an unfortunate step toward Europeanization when it delayed the approval of two crops that will help farmers control weeds and produce more food. The decision didn’t receive much immediate attention outside the agricultural press, but it sent a troubling signal about the future of farm technology that should concern all Americans.At the heart of ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214660566/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:42:41 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214660566/scat/45d771c7290844e9 IRS regulations are devoted to trying to define income. This may seem simple, but consider a business that operates in numerous states and countries and has many product lines. Beginning accounting students learn that business profit or income is equal to net revenue minus expenses. Yet, it is almost impossible to precisely define what is and is not a legitimate expense. What is the proper rate ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214660564/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:42:40 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214660564/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Patrick Michaels at the Cato Institute offer a calmer, constructive view of what’s happening. They observe that while the rise in atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels in recent centuries has tracked with an increase in the use of fossil fuels, it has also been accompanied by great leaps in the human condition, including a global population growth of 75 percent and a doubling of life expectancy ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214660565/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:42:40 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214660565/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Boy Scouts of America to retain its long-standing ban on openly homosexual youths in its ranks, and it’s a credo as sensible as it is succinct.The battle comes to a head this week when ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214660567/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:42:40 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214660567/scat/45d771c7290844e9 "I am in pain 24 hours a day", Mamadou* told a Human Rights Watch researcher. "The pain I have all over my body…it is in my bones." Mamadou, a 47-year-old man from rural Senegal, has advanced prostate cancer that has spread throughout his body. He can no longer be cured, but with morphine, a strong painkiller, he could live his last months in dignity. However, morphine ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214658679/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:53:32 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214658679/scat/45d771c7290844e9 if you are interested in contributing. Reconstructing nuclear confidence in the world following the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster will be a long and painful process. But real-life energy demands, especially in developing countries, predetermines a significant share of nuclear energy in their national energy consumption structure. Russian experience in this field can offer some interesting ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214657846/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:10:09 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214657846/scat/45d771c7290844e9 By Sreeram Chaulia The death on May 12 of one of the father figures of the theory of international relations (IR), Professor Kenneth Waltz, resonated with every academician who follows world politics. The founder of a dominant school of thought known as neorealism, Waltz, who died aged 88 from complications with pneumonia, was essential reading for generations of students and teachers who ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214657637/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:41:11 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214657637/scat/45d771c7290844e9 By Richard Javad Heydarian MANILA - After three years of inconclusive bilateral negotiations with China and a year of precarious diplomatic brinkmanship under Cambodia's chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Philippines has sought new ways to resolve its territorial disputes in the South China Sea. Despite earlier hopes that China's leadership ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214657788/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:41:11 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214657788/scat/45d771c7290844e9 By Peter Lee The big story in Asia affairs today is a little trip that was supposed to stay a secret: the dispatch of Isao Iijima, adviser to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, to meet with senior officials in North Korea, thereby breaking the united US/South Korean/Japanese front in negotiations with Pyongyang. It is the first instance of an overt divergence between Japanese and US ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214657787/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:41:11 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214657787/scat/45d771c7290844e9 By Ramzy Baroud In an article published on May 15, American historical social scientist Immanuel Wallerstein wrote, "Nothing illustrates more the limitations of Western power than the internal controversy its elites are having in public about what the United States in particular and Western European states should be doing about the civil war in Syria." Those limitations are ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214657825/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:41:11 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214657825/scat/45d771c7290844e9 By Sherman So HONG KONG - Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, which is said to be preparing for a public share sale that might be worth more than US$70 billion, is building up its mobile Internet business with a rash of acquisitions as the country's Internet users increasingly switch to mobile-phones and tablets rather than office-bound computers and home laptops. The move to build ... http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214658199/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:41:10 -0400 http://www.russiaherald.com/index.php/sid/214658199/scat/45d771c7290844e9