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...Pax Syriana conveniently put an end to 15 years of war in Lebanon as George H W Bush declared a new world order....
...The triumph of the west owes largely to the realist foreign policy of President Ronald Reagan and his successor, George H W Bush....
...The first vessel, Raouf H, later docked at the Greek port of Nea Karvali, according to data from MarineTraffic.com....
...And there will be first-quarter results from H&M....
...Earnings It’s a quiet week for earnings but Sweden’s H&M releases first-quarter results on Friday....
...“No one is going to take his speech as indicative of American policy, because it has become clear to everyone that American policy can change by the stroke of a keyboard and thus a tweet,” said H.A....
...After an initial wobble, in which the removal of Bashar al-Assad was dropped as an American long-term objective, the Syrian dictator gassed civilians in an air attack and the US struck one of his airbases...
...US national security adviser H R McMaster told reporters that Mr Maduro had joined an “exclusive club” of dictators who oppress their own people, citing Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, Syria’s Bashar al-Assad...
...Ivo H. Daalder is President of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs...
...H D S Greenway Needham, MA, US...
...“From Cairo’s point of view, if Bashar falls, then Syria could turn into a jihadi playground,” said H.A Hellyer, associate fellow at the think-tank Royal United Services Institute in London....
...Some fear that just as Isis expanded among Syrian rebels who originally saw it as a potential partner in the fight against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, Libya’s mainstream Islamists and their allied...
...There are no dictators threatening to go on an international rampage; Bashar al-Assad’s ambitions seem to be confined to holding on to power within Syria itself....
...“Over the arc of 2013, the jihadis spent more time fighting the Kurds than they fought Assad,” said Kirk H....
...In the dying days of the Soviet Union, President George H W Bush gave a speech in Kiev urging Ukrainian nationalists not to provoke Moscow. US conservatives dubbed it his “chicken Kiev” speech....
...“But the speech could also be a Nasserite idea to get people to give him [Gen Sisi] a popular mandate to take extraordinary measures,” said H.A....
...Anyone with a political memory is thinking about Sarajevo these days as President Bashar al-Assad’s artillery shells blast into Homs and families huddle in dark and unheated basements trying to stay alive...
...A day after three top Syrian security officials were assassinated in a bomb blast in Damascus, Bashar al-Assad was given more reason to fear for his fate....
...Triumphant in the first Gulf war, George H.W. Bush, in October 1991, went before the UN to declare that the US’s goal was now to build a “New World Order”....
...China pushes ahead with high-speed rail China has unveiled its fastest train, capable of hitting 500km/h, a reminder that the country’s high-speed rail plans have only been partially checked by a fatal accident...
...China pushes ahead with high-speed rail China has unveiled its fastest train, capable of hitting 500km/h, a reminder that the country’s high-speed rail plans have only been partially checked by a fatal...
...The article was published in February, just as Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s president, began a brutal crackdown on protesters....
...After the 1992 election, which over-predicted President George H.W....
...al-Assad, and giggle at North Korea’s Kim to Kim dynastic communism, we are about to hold a presidential election that may extend a sequence that gives the land of the free four years of George H.W....
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