The business of kidnapping people at sea for ransom, which has become very profitable in recent years, has provoked a response from insurers, and a new product has been introduced to the market…
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov set the quota for issuing temporary residence permits to foreign citizens and stateless persons for 2006 at 107,425. It should be recalled that the head of the…
‘Refugee’ has been recognized as the main word of 2005. The phrase of the year is ‘out of the mainstream,’ and the word used everywhere is ‘OK.’ These are the results of a study conducted by the…
The upcoming New Year's Eve will be one second longer than usual. This was reported by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. "An extra second will be added to the atomic clocks at…
Currently, the United States considers approximately 80,000 foreign citizens as potential terrorists for whom entry into U.S. territory is prohibited or undesirable. That is exactly how many names…
The Council of Justice Ministers of the European Union approved at the end of last week new rules for controlling mobile and Internet communications in EU countries. Now, if they are adopted by the…
A dispute is heating up in Europe over the EU budget for 2007-2013. British Prime Minister Tony Blair demanded to cut the contributions of union members to the European budget from 1.06% to 1.03% of…
British authorities have launched a large-scale inspection of English language schools for foreigners. A quarter of such educational institutions turned out to be fictitious offices that receive…
For the second week now, the suburbs of Paris resemble Harlem of the 1960s. Overturned cars, smoldering fires made of car tires, broken shop windows. From dawn to dusk, only small groups of rioting…