MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ukraine's new president Viktor Yanukovich soothed Moscow on Friday by suggesting he would reverse key policies of his pro-Western predecessor, but won no public promise that Russia will lower Kiev's onerous gas bills. Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich (2nd L) approaches to shake the hand of Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) as they meet in Moscow March 5, 2010. (REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin) Making a state visit to Moscow a week after his inauguration, Yanukovich said...
PARIS — Daniel Louvard does not believe in affirmative action. Time and again, the scientists in his Left Bankcancer laboratory have urged him to recruit with gender diversity in mind. But Mr. Louvard, research director at the Institut Curie and one of France’s top biochemists, just...
Protesters clashed with riot police outside the Greek parliament yesterday over the Government's austerity package to tackle the country's debt. Elsewhere in Athens, masked youths attacked the leader of...
Fights over the Sorbonne, the seat of learning on the Paris Left Bank, usually involve students, riot police and ideology. The latest, however, is among rival chancellors and the city council. This time the stakes are for big money. The dispute is over the right to the name Sorbonne. At least six...
US officials tried to limit the damage to relations with Ankara yesterday after the Turkish Government condemned the Obama Administration's failure to prevent a vote labelling the murder of 1.5 million Armenians as genocide. The Turkish Ambassador to Washington arrived back in Ankara after being...
Ukraine's new pro-Russian President offered the Kremlin a chance to retain a base for its Black Sea Fleet on his first visit to Moscow yesterday. Viktor Yanukovych suggested that the fleet could stay in Crimea beyond 2017, when a 20-year lease is due to expire, overturning...
MOSCOW — After federal forces descended on a dusty farming village in the southern republic of Ingushetia, Russian authorities said Friday that they had retrieved a burnt corpse possibly belonging to Aleksandr Tikhomirov, a charismatic militant leader who has been linked to a series of bloody...
There is no better place than Switzerland to be a chicken. Or a hamster. Or even - though the jury is still out on this - a goldfish. The reason is that the country has an extraordinary set of animal protection laws that closely define the obligations of pet owners and farmers. Now it is about to go...
NAIROBI, Kenya-Signaling a new offensive mindset, international military officials vowed Friday to fight the pirates as swarms of Somalis moved into the waters off East Africa. Four shootouts with pirates showed that high-seas attacks are intensifying with the end of the monsoon season. Nearly half...
