MALMO, Sweden, Aug. 11 (UPI) — The U.S. economic bailout is for the birds. Meanwhile, the United States continues to spend $16 billion per…
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, July 27 (UPI) — It might be true. I take Bulgarians seriously. It could just as well be my Andy Warhol moment. On…
OSTRAVA, Czech Republic, July 22 (UPI) — Nineteen years after communism’s demise, the Czech Republic is mostly a model of success. Still, many in…
OXFORD, England, July 3 (UPI) — Gen. Wesley Clark has served the United States with honor for 45 years — 38 of them in…
TEREZIN, Czech Republic, June 30 (UPI) — Leadership comes in many forms. Often it springs from a crisis — often from evil. Normal people…
BURY ST. EDMUNDS, England, June 19 (UPI) — I lie on the sofa watching the student demonstrations in Iran, dozing in and out, recovering…
BUCHAREST, Romania, June 1 (UPI) — My cigarette in hand, I glimpsed what I thought was a U.S. Army Combat Uniform. After security, I…
MONTGOMERY, Ala., May 20 (UPI) — For the civil rights movement it is a city associated with Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr….
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PRAGUE, Czech Republic, May 7 (UPI) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been rather exceptional in her first 100 days in office. She has been…
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PRAGUE, Czech Republic, April 27 (UPI) –– Flames began to engulf the young man at the foot of Riga’s Freedom Monument. A brilliant 21-year-old…