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Viktor Yanukovych completes his metamorphosis
David L. Stern - Russia and its neighbors - February 8, 2010 18:23 ET

KIEV, Ukraine — Viktor Yanukovych, the ursine eastern Ukrainian party boss who suffered a humiliating defeat five years ago, has triumphed in a...Full Story >



Chickens: made in Brazil, sold in Iraq
Seth Kugel - Brazil - February 8, 2010 06:51 ET

SAO PAULO, Brazil — The Brazilians call it "frango" and the Iraqis call it "dajjaj," but more than ever before, they’re...Full Story >



From Sudan to Israel: a tough road
Rebecca Collard - Israel and Palestine - February 8, 2010 07:06 ET

JERUSALEM, Israel — From the top of a sand dune on the Egyptian side of the border it’s easy to see how 18,000 African asylum seekers have...Full Story >



India: The farmer's unhappy wives
Hanna Ingber Win - India - February 8, 2010 13:30 ET

AMRAVATI, India — Once a month Ujwala Karmejh pulls together her savings and splurges on a 60-rupee ($1.30), round-trip bus ticket.

Wearing a...Full Story >



Ethiopia's Harar casts spell
Mercedes Sayagues - Africa - February 8, 2010 07:23 ET

HARAR, Ethiopia — In his teens, Arthur Rimbaud wrote a hundred pages of perfect poems and fascinated Paris with his talent and debauchery. In 1874,...Full Story >


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Viktor Yanukovych completes his metamorphosis
David L. Stern - Russia and its neighbors - February 8, 2010 18:23 ET

KIEV, Ukraine — Viktor Yanukovych, the ursine eastern Ukrainian party boss who suffered a humiliating defeat five years ago, has triumphed in a...Full Story >



Opinion: China contributes to Dalai Lama’s mystique
HDS Greenway - Worldview - February 8, 2010 11:05 ET

BOSTON — As tectonic plates rub up against each other, causing shivers and quakes along continental fault lines, so do nations — especially...Full Story >



Ethiopia's Harar casts spell
Mercedes Sayagues - Africa - February 8, 2010 07:23 ET

HARAR, Ethiopia — In his teens, Arthur Rimbaud wrote a hundred pages of perfect poems and fascinated Paris with his talent and debauchery. In 1874,...Full Story >



India: The farmer's unhappy wives
Hanna Ingber Win - India - February 8, 2010 13:30 ET

AMRAVATI, India — Once a month Ujwala Karmejh pulls together her savings and splurges on a 60-rupee ($1.30), round-trip bus ticket.

Wearing a...Full Story >



From Sudan to Israel: a tough road
Rebecca Collard - Israel and Palestine - February 8, 2010 07:06 ET

JERUSALEM, Israel — From the top of a sand dune on the Egyptian side of the border it’s easy to see how 18,000 African asylum seekers have...Full Story >



Chickens: made in Brazil, sold in Iraq
Seth Kugel - Brazil - February 8, 2010 06:51 ET

SAO PAULO, Brazil — The Brazilians call it "frango" and the Iraqis call it "dajjaj," but more than ever before, they’re...Full Story >



Greek prime minister fights "credibility deficit"
Nicole Itano - Europe - February 8, 2010 06:40 ET

ATHENS, Greece — Government jobs in Greece have long been seen as the spoils of power, handed out by whatever party was in control to reward...Full Story >



Shackleton's whisky stash yields more than expected
Emily Stone - Global Green - February 7, 2010 17:10 ET

CAPE ROYDS, Antarctica — Preservationist Al Fastier spent three long, cold days laying on his stomach in Antarctica earlier this month, chipping...Full Story >



Opinion: Sotheby's highlights economic disparity
Michael Goldfarb - Worldview - February 7, 2010 10:41 ET

LONDON, U.K. — For a few days last week the best art museum in the world was to be found on London's Bond Street. Sotheby's auction house was holding...Full Story >



Opinion: The lessons of Yalta
Serhii Plokhii - Worldview - February 7, 2010 10:12 ET

BOSTON — Sixty-five years ago this week, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill landed on an airstrip freshly cleared of snow near the...Full Story >