"Individuals make history. If the last leader of the Soviet Union had not been a man called Mikhail Gorbachev, the world would be a different place. So the character and views of China's leader-designate, Xi Jinping, who just visited the United States, do matter."
An Egyptian judge involved in the investigation of foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) operating in Egypt indicated Feb. 8 that Cairo intends to try the 43 NGO workers indicted Feb. 5, many of whom are Americans.
"Germany must have a free-trade zone in Europe. Germany also needs robust demand in Europe. Germany also wants prudence in borrowing practices. And Germany must not see a return to the anti-German feeling of previous epochs."
"When workers in most industries take issue with the management, they rely on the media to publicise their cause. It follows that when media workers have a grievance..."
"What they are doing since they came into power is morbid. It is extremely morbid to sit in power and deconstruct the state. It is morbid to have a parliament without parliamentary democracy, so that every day we witness autocracy and arrogance..."
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon presented his latest regular report on the UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, to the UN Security Council.
The Human Rights Watch international NGO has published its 22nd annual World Report, summarizing human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011.
"As far as official Belgrade is concerned, this is an official confirmation that it cannot control the political will of the citizens in northern Kosovo, which is not bad in the context of political conditions that Germany and other EU member states are imposing on Serbia."
A spokesman for the NATO troops in Kosovo, KFOR, says that this international mission "does not think there are parallel and illegal institutions in northern (Serb-dominated) Kosovo".
It’s not very easy to maintain a good reputation and tradition over a long period of time, especially if you are on the competitive battlefield of the capital’s culinary scene.