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Russian warships approached Venezuela Monday for upcoming joint maneuvers — Moscow’s first military presence in the region since the Cold War — as Washington closely monitored the situation.
Venezuelan defense officials said the ships, including the nuclear-powered cruiser Peter the Great and destroyer Admiral Chabankenko, would arrive on Tuesday reports the AFP.
Audiences at the 11th Pyongyang International Film Festival clearly enjoyed themselves this fall during screenings of Western dramas and comedies, occasionally even erupting into riotous laughter.
The festival, which ran from Sept. 17 to 26 and screened more than 100 films from at least 45 nations, including China, Russia, France and Italy (though not the United States, Japan or South Korea), offered a rare chance for ordinary North Koreans to get a glimpse of the outside world.
Pilotless “drone” aircraft deliver a silent, deadly payload that has proved effective in killing militants, but has also killed civilians when intelligence goes awry or in “collateral damage, reports the Guardian.
In Pakistan, strikes were infrequent – every few months – until August, when there was a sudden and dramatic increase in the drone attacks. Since then there have been at least 20 strikes – more than one a week – possibly in a stepped-up attempt to kill Osama bin Laden before George Bush leaves office on January 20 next year.
For the first time in their at-times turbulent history, a ship from the Chinese Navy visited Vietnam. The Chinese naval training ship Zheng He arrived at the Vietnamese central Tien Sa port in Danang yesterday Chinese state media reported.
Vietnam has hosted a number of foreign navies in recent years including ships from the United States.
Vietnam and China fought a short-lived border war in 1979.
Vietnam’s central region has seen many investment projects remain incomplete as investors fail to finish the work they started.
In the ancient city of Hue in Thua Thien-Hue Province, a dozen projects involving residential areas and tourist and greenery parks are left only half-complete after several years of construction. Examples include the 199-ha urban area in An Dong Ward, the 32-ha urban area in An Tay Ward, the 84-ha Xuan Phu Urban Area and the 31-ha Dong Nam Thuy An.
Moreover, none of the 31 hotel and entertainment park projects licensed since 2003 along the Hoi An-Dien Ban coastline in Quang Nam Province has been finished.
While it doesn’t pertain to Cuba per se, this excellent article in the New York Times takes a look at the current socialist salon being created by Hugo Chávez’s socialist government in Venezuela.
In hotel corridors where oilmen in business suits once hatched deals over glasses of whiskey, delegates in Birkenstocks and guayaberas discussed Marx and Antonio Gramsci, the leftist Italian writer. Such meetings have become a staple of life in Caracas, with Mr. Chávez’s government flush, at least for now, with petrodollars that can be used to attract sympathetic members of the chattering classes the world over.
Officials here have organized international encounters for philosophers, women’s rights advocates, the government spokesmen of nonaligned countries, poets and, in September, specialists in body painting.
From MyFoxKC:
Cuba is suing a Kansas City, Kansas company over its use of the word “Havana” to describe some of its products.
Habanos is run by the Cuban government and says cigar cutter company Xikar is infringing on the government’s trademark of the word “Havana.”
Xikar sells a cigar accessories collection called the “Havana Collection.” According to the suit, Cuba says Xikar “promotes it’s goods by deliberately and falsely associating those goods with Havana, Cuba” even though the items are not made in Havana.