Future of Egypt is in the hands of Egyptians

Will Mubarak do something mature?

Mafia will persist in America

Traditional Organized Crime is able to adapt.  How successful is then the recent sweep of FBI, who managed to capture more than 100 mobsters from 5 New York mafia families?

State of the Union: Obama’s tone was one of working together

The speech generated a less partisan reaction than some prior State of the Unions where sometimes only the party of the president would applaud.

Belgium: No-one really wants a quick government at any price

And the popular initiatives won’t change it.

In Putin’s Russia, neither security nor stability

By Lilia Shevtsova, senior associate at the Carnegie Moscow Center.

Ireland is on autopilot

Irish Times says. What does it mean?

Hu Jintao: A lot still needs to be done in China over human rights

What was the Chinese President talking about?

Changes and the Arab world

I really think it’s more complicated than it was in Eastern Europe.

Obama meets Hu Jintao

Chinese President arrives in US for four-day visit.

Does Iran continue on a nuclear quest?

An article based on the leaked cables in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten claims that Iran has been developing contacts in more than thirty countries, in order to acquire the technology, equipment and raw materials needed to develop a nuclear bomb.