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...cinemas nationwide, I Saw the Sun, a controversial film about a Kurdish family whose two sons find themselves on opposing sides of the conflict, is No. 1 at the box office. And while using Kurdish spelling remains officially forbidden, people make a point of using their Kurdish names when they can. "Rojhat," says one bright-eyed 29-year-old lawyer, extending a hand when I meet him on a recent trip to the Kurdish region of Turkey. "Not Resat". (Unlike Turkish, Kurdish uses...
...pressure. In India, airline Jet Airways reversed a decision to lay off 1,900 staff after the government made its displeasure known - and weeping victims melted Chairman Naresh Goyal's heart. "I could not sleep at night," Goyal confessed at a press conference. "I was mentally disturbed when I saw tears in their eyes." Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said he told Goyal that "the ministry would certainly not be very happy with the approach of Jet Airways." Something similar happened in France last month when the French oil company Total announced the closure of two refineries, with the loss...
...saw goes, never get into a war with a people who live in a half-hour time zone. The reference is usually to Afghanistan, a country no one has ever been able to subdue, for long at least. And it's even more true for the Pashtun, the country's largest ethnic group, who don't seem to live in any time zone at all. Last week the Obama Administration didn't propose going to war with the Pashtun. But a larger American presence in Afghanistan, and the Obama Administration's focus on the Taliban and al-Qaeda elements...
...hoped his first meeting with Russia's President, Dimitri Medvedev, in the afternoon would address what Obama called "the drift in the U.S.-Russia relationship." "There are very real differences. I have no interest in papering these over," he said, adding that on the issue of nuclear nonproliferation, he saw one of the strongest areas of common ground...
...Fresh on the heels of a regional summit in Doha, where President Bashar al-Assad reaffirmed his support for resistance against Israel while expressing reservations about the Arab Peace Initiative, the Syrian president dropped a bombshell by embarking on an epoch-making visit to Tel Aviv Wednesday morning. "Nobody saw this coming," said Mark Burnes, a State Department analyst who monitors Syrian affairs. "We knew that they were close to a deal, but the Israelis didn't tell us how close."... Official sources say that earlier that same morning, [Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu] had himself embarked upon an epoch...