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Cuba's President Fidel Castro - the world's longest-serving political leader - has not been seen in public since July and speculation is continuing about his health, with unconfirmed reports saying that he is in a serious condition. Here, world affairs correspondent Paul Reynolds looks at the story of his life. The ailing Castro remains a symbol of revolution in his 80th year He is instantly recognisable both from his appearance - the beard and the military fatigues - and from his first name alone: Fidel. The name is expressed with affection by some, with hostility by others but it calls up history for everyone. The story of his life is very much the story of our times: revolutionary movements, the Cold War, East v West, North v South, communism v capitalism - except that most of the world has passed him by. Fidel Castro has remained the same, a symbol of revolution, a communist who has survived the fall of communism. He continues to inspire his followers with slogans and five-hour speeches. He rails against the United States, its economic and trade embargo and against the evils of free markets - and he maintains his rule with an iron grip that sends opponents to prison for years. Intolerance He is praised for standing up for the oppressed of Latin America, for opposing the Yankee imperialist, for making Cuba into a more equal society than many, for developing Cuba's health service and sending doctors abroad to help others. Cuba's assistance to the island of Grenada led to a full-scale US invasion And it wasn't only doctors he has sent abroad. He despatched troops to Angola and Ethiopia in support of fellow revolutionaries. His hand was seen in many a revolutionary movement in his own continent. But he is also condemned for intolerance, for keeping his people poor and for refusing to see the benefits of economic liberalisation that even the communists of China have embraced. He has stopped his people from leaving the island, leading them to risk their lives in rickety boats to try to get out. At one stage in the early years of the Reagan administration he was accused of trying to take over Central America for the Soviet Union by revolution. Washington at that time saw a path that led from the guerrillas of El Salvador through Nicaragua to Cuba and right up to the door of the Kremlin. Brink of nuclear war Cuban assistance to the small and then revolutionary island of Grenada in the Caribbean prompted a full-scale US invasion. President Castro has remained in almost permanent confrontation with the United States - and it with him. Such thaws as there have been, like under President Jimmy Carter, have always frozen up again. The US came to the brink of nuclear war with the Soviet Union The American embargo on Cuba has been used by both sides - as a policy by the US to isolate Cuba and as an excuse by Fidel Castro for the island's poverty. He has cut a giant figure on the world stage during the 47 years he has controlled Cuba - at one point bringing the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war. It was the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 that propelled him into worldwide prominence. Before that he had been just a glamorous revolutionary leader. He had overthrown the dictator Batista in a classic guerrilla war and had fought off an American-led invasion by Cuban exiles on the Bay of Pigs in 1961. But when Nikita Khrushchev decided, with Fidel Castro's agreement, to station nuclear missiles in Cuba itself, the island leader turned from being a thorn in the side of the Americans into being a mortal threat. It was only the skilled diplomacy of Jack Kennedy (and of Khrushchev in the end) that saved the day, and Fidel's own island from destruction. Strengthened The then US defence Secretary Robert McNamara met President Castro in 1992. He said the Cuban leader told him there were 162 nuclear missiles in Cuba at the time of the crisis. He asked Castro if he had recommended they be used. The answer was:
Castro resumes official business

Cuba's Fidel Castro has held talks with a top delegate from China in what is thought to be his first official act since his illness last year. Mr Castro - who has handed over power temporarily to his...
Havana, 21.04.2007 more...
Traian Băsescu (born November 4, 1951) is a Romanian politician. He is the current President of Romania, inaugurated on December 20, 2004. He won the office in the 2004 presidential election. Prior to becoming President, he was the Mayor of Bucharest from June 2000 until December 2004. On April 19, 2007, the Romanian Parliament voted in favour of Băsescu's impeachment,[1] with 322 votes for and 108 against (the minimum number of votes needed was 233).[2] As the Constitutional Court of Romania acknowledged the Parliament's vote on 20 April 2007,[3] Băsescu will remain suspended as president until a referendum scheduled to take place on May 20, 2007 confirms whether the impeachment should stand. Băsescu is the first president in the history of Romania who has been officially suspended. Wikipedia
Suspended President Traian Basescu says he's not resigning as president, calls people to referendum

Romanian President Traian Basescu said in a televised speech on Friday evening that he would not resign from office following his suspension by the Parliament yesterday. He had previously said that if...
Bucharest, 20.04.2007 more...
Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (Бори́с Абра́мович Березо́вский) a.k.a. Platon Elenin (born January 23, 1946) is a Russian-born billionaire. He emigrated to the UK in 2001 where he was granted political asylum. Berezovsky was born in Moscow into a Jewish family. He studied forestry and then applied mathematics, receiving his doctorate in 1983. He later became a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1991 and the chair of a laboratory in its Institute of Control Sciences. Berezovsky started in business in 1989 under perestroika by buying and reselling automobiles from state manufacturer AutoVAZ. Officially, Berezovsky was called upon as an expert in development of optimized system of management of the enterprise. In 1992 a new middleman company
Diplomatic rift as Russia says: give us Berezovsky

Terry Macalister, Ian Cobain and Simon Tisdall Thursday April 19, 2007 The Guardian Relations between London and Moscow threatened to plummet to a post-cold war low yesterday amid renewed Russian demands...
London, 19.04.2007 more...
US President George W. Bush, seen here 10 April 2007, may meet Italian Prime Minister...
Bush may meet Italy's Prodi in June: report

ROME (AFP) - US President George W. Bush may meet Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi here before or after the Group of Eight (G8) summit June 6-8 in Germany, the ANSA news agency reported Thursday."The...
Roma, 12.04.2007 more...
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Ukraine judges 'facing threats'

Several Constitutional Court judges in Ukraine are threatening to quit a key case about a power struggle pitting the president against the prime minister. The court of 18 judges is to consider whether...
Kyjev, 10.04.2007 more...
During his official visit to the Slovak Republic, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría will meet with the following representatives of the Slovak government: Mr. Ivan GAŠPAROVIČ, President Mr. Robert FICO, Prime Minister Mr. Dušan ČAPLOVIČ, Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Ján KUBIŠ, Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Ján MIKOLAJ, Minister of Education Mr. Ján POČIATEK, Minister of Finance Mr. Pavol PAŠKA, Speaker of the National Council Mr. Andrej ĎURKOVSKÝ, Mayor of Bratislava Additionnally, Mr Gurría's speaking engagements during the visit will include: The presentation of the OECD Economic Survey of the Slovak Republic 2007. A speech on Regional Economic Integration and Globalisation, presented to the Regional Economic Conference on Eurozone Challenges & Opportunities.
Presentation of the OECD Economic Survey of the Slovak Republic

Presentation of the OECD Economic Survey of the Slovak Republic by Angel Gurria, OECD Secretary-General Bratislava, Slovakia, 5 April 2007 Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It is a pleasure to be here...
Bratislava, 07.04.2007 more...
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EU backs U.S. air pact in new era for travellers

The European Union launched a new era in transatlantic air travel on Thursday, Ministry backing an agreement with the United States that will drive down passenger fares and open aviation markets to more...
EU, 22.03.2007 more...
Alan Greenspan (born March 6, 1926) is an American economist and was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006. Following his retirement as Fed chairman, he accepted an honorary (unpaid) position at HM Treasury in the United Kingdom. First appointed Fed chairman by President Ronald Reagan in August 1987, he was reappointed at successive four-year intervals until retiring on January 31, 2006, at which time he relinquished the chairmanship to Ben Bernanke. Greenspan was lauded for his handling of the Black Monday stock market crash that occurred very shortly after he first became chairman, as well as for his stewardship of the Internet-driven,
Stocks Rise Modestly As Fed Meets

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: March 20, 2007 Filed at 12:31 p.m. ET NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street cautiously advanced Tuesday, with investors placing modest bets that the Federal Reserve won't...
Washington, 20.03.2007 more...
TAIEX, or the Technical Assistance and Information Exchange is an instrument of the Directorate-General Enlargement of the European Commission. TAIEX helps countries with regard to the approximation, application and enforcement of EU legislation. It is largely demand driven and channels requests for assistance and contributes to the delivery of appropriate tailor-made expertise to address problems at short notice.
Introduction of the Euro

Two days seminar in Bratislava in cooperation with SOPK and European Commision,Economic and Financial Affairs about Introduction to the EMU and euro.
Bratislava, 19.03.2007 more...
SkyEurope Airlines - the first low cost low fare airline in Central Europe - opens up the new Europe for you! Based at the airport of Budapest and Vienna-Bratislava, located only 50 km from the Austrian capital, SkyEurope operates a network of 18 destinations in the United Kingdom, France, Croatia, Germany, Poland, Holland, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The SkyShuttle service links Bratislava airport with the neighbouring city of Vienna.
SkyEurope Airlines breaks the record: new Boeing 737-700NG flew over from Seattle to Prague without any fuel stop.

30. 01. 2007 SkyEurope Airlines, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, reached another No1 when the 7th brand new Boeing 737-700 Next Generation landed at Bratislava airport on...
Bratislava, 19.03.2007 more...
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