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ISRAEL: Israel admits to holding missing Gaza engineer
Babylon & BeyondDerar Abu Sisi, an engineer and deputy manager of the Gaza power plant, was reported missing last month in Ukraine after he boarded a train to Kiev but never made it. First, bloggers reported it. Then came the mainstream foreign...... -
WEST BANK: Palestinian who went missing in Ukraine describes abduction by Mossad
Babylon & BeyondA Palestinian who went missing last month in Ukraine after boarding a train in Kharko headed to Kiev, was kidnapped by agents of Mossad, the Israeli spy agency and brought to Israel against his will, according to a report published...... -
Photographer Frederic Chaubin's weird and wonderful Soviet architecture
Culture MonsterPhotographer Frédéric Chaubin likes to believe he uncovered a fourth age of Russian architecture. In his book "CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed" (Taschen, $59.99), Chaubin captured 90 unconventional, rarely seen buildings constructed in... -
Crocodile at Ukraine aquarium swallows cellphone
L.A. UnleashedKIEV, Ukraine — Workers at a Ukrainian aquarium didn't believe it when a visitor said a crocodile swallowed her phone. Then the reptile started ringing. The accident in the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk sounds a bit like "Peter Pan," in...... -
PASSINGS: Pavel Popovich, Kevork S. Hovnanian, Osman E. Osmanoglu
Pavel Popovich Former Soviet cosmonaut Pavel Popovich, 79, a former Soviet cosmonaut who was best known for a space first in 1962 -- piloting one of two manned satellites that orbited the Earth at the same time -- died Wednesday of a stroke at a Ukraine...Tags: House Building, Companies and Corporations, Hovnanian Enterprises Incorporated, Turkey, Family
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Why North Korea loves the bomb
BENNETT RAMBERG served in the State Department's Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs in the administration of President George H.W. Bush. E-mail: Bennettramberg@aol.comON ITS FACE, North Korea's announcement that it plans to return to the six-party nuclear talks marks a victory of sorts for diplomacy. Working with its allies, the United States fashioned a package of U.N. resolutions, economic sanctions and the threat of...Tags: Kim Jong Il, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Tripoli (Libya), Russia, Kiev (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine)
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Foreign tourist boards
For tourist information on selected foreign destinations, contact the government offices below. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at (212) 963-1234, dial 0 and ask for the number of the country's U.N. mission or...Tags: Tonga, Croatia, Argentina, Fiji, Cook Islands
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Russian evolution
Russia has lost an empire and not yet found a role. As we approach the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we should pay tribute again to the fact that a nuclear-armed superpower surrendered its vast continental empire with scarcely a shot...Tags: Czech Republic, Natural Gas, University of Oxford, Berlin (Germany), George W. Bush
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Kremlin uses gas as a weapon
On the surface, the battle between Russia and Ukraine that has choked off natural-gas supplies to much of Europe in the dead of a cold winter is a purely commercial dispute. Deeper down, it's something more menacing -- part of what looks like a calculated...Tags: NATO, Home Heating, Diplomacy, Germany, Russia
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Is NATO reaching too far east?
Today's question: Did the U.S. overplay its hand in Eastern Europe when Russia was weak and reeling from the collapse of the Soviet Union? Previously, Moynihan and Meier discussed the extent to which Russia wants to exert control over former Soviet...Tags: Czech Republic, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Russia, Central Intelligence Agency, Kiev (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine)
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Foreign government tourist offices
For tourist information on selected foreign destinations, contact the government offices below. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at (212) 963-1234, dial 0 and ask for the number of the country's U.N. mission or...Tags: Tonga, Croatia, Zimbabwe, Argentina, Fiji
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Cruise the Crimean Peninsula, from Odessa to Lvov
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterExplore Ukraine on a 16-day land and cruise tour from Odessa to Lvov aboard the 300-passenger Dnieper Princess. Itinerary: Towns along the Dnieper River including Kiev and an excursion to the Galician countryside. Dates: Aug. 27 to Sept. 11 Price: $1,...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Odessa (Ukraine), Travel, Cruises
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