Terrible conditions for prisoners in the Quito jail, where corruption reigns.It is a system in which corruption is so embedded that it has become the only law in force.  “Pay up or forget it”: no other rule exists inside the CDP

 The region of Nagorno - Karabakh risks a new war. The failure of the Rambouillet negotiations.

 Marwa As’ad, a Turkoman resident of Kirkuk, believes rising tensions among different ethnic and religious groups in Kirkuk contributed to her break-up.

 The law that denies Israeli citizenship to mixed couples is once again the subject of discussion

We asked for comments from the Pakistani journalist and writer Ahmed Rashid, who lives in Lahore

 Berlusconi defends Putin’s war in Chechnya. Unfortunately our premier is not Putin’s only ‘defense attorney’: until now, none of the heads of state in European governments, and western governments in general, have ever had the courage to denounce the Chechen horror and the responsibilities of the Russian president