Hints and tips:
...“It is the easiest thing in the world to suggest that if we just provided a little bit more weaponry, that they [the Assad regime] would come to the table....
...Oil watcher and economist Phil Verleger has some reasons why Saudi Arabia’s insistence on raising production quotas is a sincere bid to keep prices under control, and would willingly risk prices falling...
...Dozens of world-class ceramics are now on display in the cavernous Khan Assad Basha, an atmospheric stone caravanserai in Damascus’s old souq....
...Moments such as his meetings with Syria’s ailing President Assad are somehow rendered sterile. He seems consumed with putting one over those career diplomats who carped at his role....
...By Phil Gunson in Caracas He rails against globalisation, but few political leaders are more global than Venezuela’s peripatetic leftwing President Hugo Chávez, who this weekend returned from his second...
...P aradise Now, Hany Abu-Assad’s brilliantly crafted drama about two Palestinian suicide bombers, gives a new reality to the phrase “theatre of war”....
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