KABUL (AFP) – US President Barack Obama has accepted Kabul’s request to be part of a major review of US strategy in the “war on terror” in Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai and a US envoy said Sunday. Karzai said he asked Obama by letter for Afghanistan to have a role …

Interviu cu Dan DUNGACIU Săptămîna aceasta, la Bucureşti, se va lansa cartea Cine sîntem noi? Cronici de la Est de Vest de Dan Dungaciu, apărută la Editura Cartier. Dan Dungaciu este conferenţiar la Facultatea de Sociologie şi Asistenţă socială a Universităţii din Bucureşti. Volumul Cine sîntem noi? cuprinde analize detaliate …

Dan Dungaciu este unul dintre cei mai buni cunoscători ai peisajului politic şi social din Republica Moldova. Pentru Cotidianul, desenează liniile de forţă ale peisajului politic actual de la Chişinău. De altfel, recent, la Editura Cartier din capitala Republicii Moldova a apărut ultima carte dedicată vecinilor de peste Prut ai …

„Nu te întrista, o să te îmbolnăveşti; după noi – potopul!”   (Madame de Pompadour către Ludovic al XV-lea)    Dan Dungaciu     d.dungaciu@gmail.com SUA rămâne singura putere mondială a lumii cel puţin pentru motivul că nu există o altă ţară a cărei criză internă să pună planeta pe butuci. …

ALI MARDAN, Afghanistan, Feb 14 (Reuters) – The foreign warplanes swooped in just as the Afghan village of Ali Mardan was celebrating a wedding. Bombs slammed into the crowded village square, killing 30 men, women and children. After the smoke cleared and the dead were buried, all the able-bodied men …

MOSCOW – Twenty years after Red Army troops pulled out of Afghanistan, the last general to command them says the Soviets‘ devastating experience is a dismal omen for U.S. plans to build up troops there. On Friday, the anniversary of the Soviet departure from the Afghan capital, the Russian parliament’s …

KABUL (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama’s new envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan met key ministers in the Afghan capital on Friday, two days after triple Taliban attacks in the city demonstrated just how much security is deteriorating. Wednesday’s attacks on government buildings show how hard it is for the …

A Bosnian court has found an Imam (local Islamic priest) guilty of sexually abusing an underage girl and sentenced him to 18 months in prison, in a case that shocked Bosnia and stirred up tensions between local media organizations and the country’s influential Islamic Community. The family of the girl …

Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity of Republika Srpska opened a representative office in Brussels on Thursday, triggering a new round of criticism from Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) officials who see this as yet another proof of its distancing itself from Bosnia and Herzegovina. All top Republika Srpska officials attended the official opening ceremony …

Serb health workers have started leaving Kosovo after Serbia decided to halve the so-called ‘Kosovo allowance’ part of their monthly pay, a controversial benefit amounting to a de facto double wage for those who worked in the civil service and recognised Belgrade, not Pristina as their capital. Belgrade has vowed …