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Articles Written by: MICHAEL ASTOR
"Devil's Dream" (Pantheon Books, 335 pages, $26), by Madison Smartt Bell: In "Devil's Dream," Madison Smartt Bell has chosen as his subject a Confederate general and slave trader who would go on to become one of the leaders of the early Ku Klux Klan. ...
The fraud-marred victory of Afghan President Hamid Karzai will not affect the European Union's plans to substantially increase aid to that country, a top officials said Monday.
EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said that ...
From MICHAEL ASTOR,
eTaiwan News,
2 Nov 2009
The head of the U.N. nuclear agency urged Iran on Monday to clarify its response to a U.S.-backed proposal that would have Tehran ship most of its nuclear material abroad for processing.
Addressing the U.N. General Assembly, Mohamed ElBaradei ...
From MICHAEL ASTOR AND GEORGE JAHN,
eTaiwan News,
2 Nov 2009
NEW YORK—When Brazilian choreographer Deborah Colker says she finds her inspiration in everyday movements, she's being modest.
Colker specializes in the kind of acrobatic spectacles that find her dancers performing on mountain climbing walls, inside ...
From MICHAEL ASTOR,
Boston Globe,
21 Oct 2009
Brazil's president said Wednesday he hoped deposed President Manuel Zelaya's surprise return to Honduras would deter coup plotters and an eventual restoration of democracy in the Central American nation.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called ...
From MICHAEL ASTOR,
eTaiwan News,
23 Sep 2009
Brazil's president said Wednesday that Iran is entitled to the same rights as any other country to use nuclear energy for peaceful ends.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday that Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad assured him in ...
From MICHAEL ASTOR,
eTaiwan News,
23 Sep 2009
Brazil's president on Tuesday defended Rio de Janeiro's candidacy to host the 2016 Olympics, saying no other country needed it more than Brazil.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said his country was the only one among the world's 10 largest ...
From MICHAEL ASTOR,
Taiwan News,
22 Sep 2009
Brazil's president says he has asked deposed Honduras President Manuel Zelaya not to provide a pretext for coup leaders to invade the Brazilian embassy.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he spoke with Zelaya by phone on Tuesday ...
From MICHAEL ASTOR,
Taiwan News,
22 Sep 2009
UNITED NATIONS—The world financial crisis offers organized crime a unique opportunity to return to the global banking systems from which it had been barred by sanctions imposed after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, the U.N.'s top anti-crime official ...
From MICHAEL ASTOR,
Boston Globe,
8 Jul 2009
UNITED NATIONS—Developing nations' hopes for forging a new, more just economic world order appear unlikely to be quickly realized as the United Nations' Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis draws to a close Friday.
Only 10 world ...
From MICHAEL ASTOR,
Boston Globe,
26 Jun 2009
