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Bashar Assad has so far ignored the international protest over the escalating bloodshed in Syria , as his army lays siege to ever larger cities.
Syria: King's speech | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian
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The Arab peoples are signifying to us that resistance and revolt are with us once again, and that history is moving beyond History.
The crisis has been building for weeks, but has now reached a critical stage.
India Microcredit Sector Faces Collapse From Defaults - NYTimes.com
Lee Kuan Yew , GCMG CH (born 16 September 1923; also Harry Lee Kwan Yew ) is a Singaporean statesman. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore , governing for three decades.
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A Conversation with Lee Kuan Yew | Foreign Affairs
Response Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew has suggested that the "Western concepts" of democracy and human rights will not work in Asia. This is false: Asia has its own venerable traditions of democracy, the rule of law, and respect for the people.
Essay More than economics, more than politics, a nation's culture will determine its fate. So says the man who built Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew.
Is Culture Destiny? The Myth of Asia's Anti-Democratic Values | Foreign Affairs
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As of December 2010, the Russian strategic forces included 611 strategic delivery platforms, which can carry up to 2679 nuclear warheads.
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Exports fueled the initial stages of China's ongoing economic boom.
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Pan-European Picnic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pan-European Picnic ( German : Paneuropäisches Picknick ; Hungarian : páneurópai piknik ) was a peace demonstration held on the Austrian - Hungarian border near the town of Sopron on 19 August 1989, an important event in political developments which led to the fall of the Iron Curtain and the reunification of Germany . It was organised by Otto von Habsburg and Imre Pozsgay .
Otto von Habsburg [ 2 ] (20 November 1912 – 4 July 2011), [ 3 ] [ 4 ] also known by his royal name as Archduke Otto of Austria , was the last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary from 1916 until the dissolution of the empire in 1918, a realm which comprised modern-day Austria , Hungary , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Croatia , the Czech Republic , Slovakia , Slovenia , and parts of Italy , Montenegro , Poland , Romania , Serbia and Ukraine .
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