To stay abreast in these confusing times, the public service must be empowered to act
They promise the earth and never deliver, but sometimes the world’s leaders give us the sun, the moon and the stars
My country is not independent. It’s an open air prison, writes Daher Ahmed Farah
Authoritarian countries will put liberal democracies under pressure
Tom Hanks speaks about his role as a lawyer who has to defend a KGB spy during the cold war years.
We bring you ten facts about the Non-Aligned Movement which was founded by a group of countries that refused to take sides in the Cold War.
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/ 11 February 2012
Russia has signalled that it could soon slap a moratorium on US adoptions of local children despite the signing of an agreement on the issue in 2011.
Vaclav Havel, the playwright who wove theatre into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia, has died.
The Berliner Mauerweg follows the Berlin Wall’s 160km route and the accompanying "death strip" that encircled West Berlin during the Cold War.
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/ 5 February 2011
Two years after Washington vowed to "reset" ties with Russia, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is due to launch a landmark nuclear pact.
Russia and the United States sought on Wednesday to cool a heated scandal sparked by the arrest of 11 suspected Kremlin spies.
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/ 19 September 2008
Russian PM Vladimir Putin on Friday rejected the prospect of a new Cold War with the West and said Russia wanted further world economic integration.
UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Wednesday Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had a big responsibility not to start a new Cold War.