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...some observers, it's naive to expect the E.U. to maintain a perfect record on human rights. "It would not be the first time the E.U. is going against its values, and its own interests," says Andrew Stroehlein, a spokesman for the International Crisis Group. Stephan Keukeleire, a professor of foreign policy at Leuven University in Belgium, points out that any E.U. claims of ethical foreign policy were already undermined by the fact that its members are among the biggest arms exporters in the world. "We too often talk about the moral side of our actions, and we too often...
...Maliki unleashed the Iraqi military on al-Sadr's supporters in Basra in 2008. Al-Sadr has warned that he would veto a second term for al-Maliki, and so the Prime Minister's delegation in Qum sought to persuade al-Sadr to drop the veto. (An al-Maliki spokesman said the mission was a success, while an al-Sadr spokesman denied that a deal had been made.) (Watch TIME's video about Iraq's broken legal system...
...person who must bear the brunt of the siege is not Benedict, who does not give press conferences. It is Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman. An Italian Jesuit, he is credited with trying to bring the papacy into the 21st century, at least in terms of social media, setting up the Vatican's Twitter feed and YouTube channel. Amid the current furor, Lombardi has, albeit in opaque Vaticanspeak, adopted a somewhat more engaged and cooperative stance with the media. On March 27, on Vatican Radio, he said, "The nature of the question is such as to attract the attention...
...safety following his arrest by Beijing police on Feb. 4, 2009. Chinese officials offered up a number of incomplete explanations of Gao's fate. He had gone missing while out on a walk, a police officer told Gao's brother. On Jan. 21 Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said Gao was "where he should be," then later said he didn't know where exactly that was. During a joint press conference with U.K. Foreign Secretary David Miliband on March 16, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said Gao had been convicted and sentenced for subversion and that...
...Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the General Prosecutor's Office, said a preliminary investigation indicated that two female bombers carried out Monday's attack. "The bombs seem to have been attached at waist-level and consisted of between one and two kilograms of TNT, which was powerful and had been packed with shrapnel," he told reporters gathered at Lubyanka Square, home of the FSB. Eyewitnesses described stunned victims fleeing the Lubyanka station moments after one of the attackers struck there at 8 a.m., some with their clothes covered in blood. "Others were leaning on each other and staggering, and another...