Kim Jong-il, the enigmatic North Korean leader, died on a train at 8:30 a.m. Saturday in his country. Forty-eight hours later, officials in South Korea still did not know anything about it - to say nothing of Washington...

Genuine tweet message from President Medvedev to Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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So, farewell then The Tiraspol Times. Your funders have Pulled the plug.

My former colleague Heather used to write speeches for Hillary Clinton, but not this one.

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meets