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Meanwhile, Nikolai Patrushev, the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB, the former KGB) and Rashid Nurgaliev, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD), both sent to Beslan by President Vladimir Putin, were invisible as the tragedy unfolded.
After the Beslan tragedy, Putin offered an exotic explanation of terrorism: the terrorists, he claimed, are instruments in the hands of those who still fear Russia as a nuclear power.
Reason in the Age of TrumpMADRID – In the classical Greek tragedy The Bacchae, the god Dionysus, powered by a thirst for vengeance, battles the inflexible and closed-minded King Pentheus for the soul of Thebes.
What China regards as Hong Kong's comedy of deference is quickly becoming a tragedy of errors for Hong Kong's citizens.
Adenauer had witnessed the full scope of the German tragedy – including two world wars and the collapse of the Weimar Republic – and he considered the young Federal Republic’s ties with the West to be more important than German reunification.
Ending the Tragedy of DarfurThe critical conditions that continue to prevail in Darfur are causing immense suffering to its people.
At some point, Japan will face its own Greek tragedy as the market charges sharply higher interest rates.
The plight of millions of refugees constitutes not just a humanitarian tragedy, but also an economic and strategic burden to countries in the region and in Europe.
He claimed that the “Winds of war are blowing,” and that the announcement of the military agreement “can transform itself into a tragedy.”
Throughout the long years of this bloody tragedy, we have tried to inch our way to a settlement through confidence-building measures or, in the case of the long dead “Road Map,” through pushing both parties to take parallel steps towards an agreement.
The world rightly focuses on the tragedy in Darfur, but overlooks another four million Sudanese still displaced as a result of the north-south conflict, many of whom continue to live in terrible poverty in Khartoum slums or in makeshift camps across the country, with little opportunity to re-build their lives.
Although Palestinians had nothing to do with European anti-Semitism and the Nazi Holocaust, they should not have turned a blind eye to the Jews’ tragedy.
The relationship between Central and Eastern European countries and the Jewish people has always been characterized by both triumph and tragedy.
The drama – more accurately, a tragedy – playing out in the North is the rapid disappearance of the polar ice cap, the Arctic Ocean’s defining feature.
Unless and until that changes, the tragedy can only deepen.
The Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 was a tragedy for China, and another tragedy for the twentieth century.
The Kirchner family seems to be working hard to prove Marx’s famous dictum that history repeats itself, “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.”
The televised tragedy, and the shortcomings that can be observed close up, can and must be stopped, lest – as often happens with Congo – the crisis disappears from the front pages, while the killing continues unseen.
“One death is tragedy; a million is a statistic.”
Currency manipulation legislation is one tragedy that can and should be avoided.
The environmental disaster destroying seaside communities around the Gulf of Mexico and killing off marine life is a globally important tragedy.
The events of the past 15 months – starting with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, followed by the violence in North Africa and the tragedy in Japan – confront the world with a stark choice between the costs and risks of traditional energy sources and the promise and progress of clean energy.
When that day comes, it will be a real tragedy if what was begun by the extremists among us could not then be reversed by more reasonable minds.
But the greatest tragedy for the US may well be the toll all of this takes on the American consumer.
Predictably, the Arizona tragedy has elicited calls for policy changes.
The question is whether American values favoring individual rights somehow facilitated the Arizona tragedy.
It is time for strong voices in Europe, the US, Israel, and elsewhere to speak out and condemn this human rights tragedy among the Palestinian people.
All deaths from disasters are a tragedy, but the fact that this number was not much higher attests to the efforts that the Philippines has made to prepare for natural disasters.
If anything, that underscores the tragedy of the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would have provided a new and powerful framework to address concerns over Chinese trading practices.
September 11, 2001, was a terrible tragedy by any measure, but it was not a historical turning point.
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