http://www.kavkazcenter.com/ Latest events in section "World" from Kavkaz-Center en http://imgs2.kavkazcenter.com/imgs/smallb.gif http://www.kavkazcenter.com/ 90 33 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:53:42 +0200 http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2008/11/12/10340.shtml Israel might strike Iran between November 5 and January 19, 2009. This Israel did on December 8, 1988 when it targeted a cave-based headquarters 20 km. south of Beirut, serving the Popular Front for the http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2008/11/11/10338.shtml Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, the commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade, whose troops have suffered severe casualties after six months of tough fighting, will hand over to 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines this month. http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2008/11/08/10333.shtml President-elect Barack Obama spoke by telephone with the leaders of six more US allies to express thanks for their fulsome messages of congratulation, news agencies report. http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2008/11/08/10334.shtml To the extent that he focused on Russia at all, Barack Obama's attention was concentrated primarily on the need to keep Soviet nuclear weapons stockpiles out of the hands of terrorists. But now, President Dmitri A. Medvedev[...] http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2008/11/07/10326.shtml "Perhaps not even Joe Biden expected to be so right so soon," said The Economist online. Mere hours after his election, Barack Obama got his first foreign test, when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2008/11/02/10323.shtml Although most of the 20 juvenile detainees have now been released, three remain, having spent more than a quarter of their lives at Guantanamo. The US continues to turn a blind eye to their juvenile status at the time of capture, has[...] http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2008/11/01/10319.shtml Nobel Peace Prize winner, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who arrived in Gaza on SS Dignity a couple of days ago, held the United Nations responsible for deaths resulting from the siege on Gaza which has been in place for almost two years. http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2008/10/31/10321.shtml Tony Lagouranis never expected to become a torturer. He didn't even really want to be a soldier. But at 30, he was bored and broke. He had a facility with languages, fancied learning Arabic, and figured the US army would teach[...] http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2008/10/30/10309.shtml Police say at least 18 bombs have exploded across the northeastern Indian state of Assam, killing 20 people and injuring more than 100. An official at the police control room in Guwahati, the state capital, told the Associated Press[...] http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2008/10/30/10308.shtml Iranian hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused the United States of putting 'false' or worthless dollars into circulation. The US "flooded the world with false dollars. Dollars that no longer have[...] http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2008/10/28/10307.shtml Iran says it is opening a new naval base on the eastern part of the strategic waterway at the mouth of the Gulf. The state news agency, IRNA, quoted Admiral Habibollah Sayyari as saying that the base http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2008/10/28/10298.shtml The next US president will inherit a mountain of debt from the latest government bailouts, making it difficult to implement new programs promised during the campaign, analysts say. The government closed its books on the 2008 fiscal[...] http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2008/10/27/10329.shtml Fearing a US strike on Iran during President George W. Bush's last months in office, a senior Iranian official has suggested the Islamic regime should target London to deter such an attack. http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2008/10/23/10276.shtml The United States and NATO are updating plans for defending allies neighboring Russia and will consider increasing the number of military exercises with the Baltic states, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said here Wednesday[...] http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2008/10/23/10277.shtml US presidential candidate Senator-Democrat Barack Obama said about the need of "change of course" in the economic and in foreign policy.