Stories from 6 March 2011
Libya: Preparing for the Fight for Sirte (Video)
Rebels are moving towards the city of Sirte, which is the only major city in the far the western side of Libya that remains in government control. However, it's the hometown of Colonel Muammar Al Gaddafi and more than a few people claim the city is heavily defended and will special have symbolic significance if it falls to anti-regime forces.
Japan: Sport Newspaper Day
March 6 is Sport Newspaper Day in Japan and it celebrates the day when the first paper specialized in sport news was published in 1946. According to Saisun, the first Japanese sport newspaper ever published was Nikkan Sports, four pages with an illustration of a baseball hurler on the first...
Russia: J. Arch Getty and Claudia Verhoeven Author Interviews
For New Books in Russia and Eurasia, Sean Guillory of Sean's Russia Blog interviews J. Arch Getty, the author of “Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin’s Iron Fist,” and Claudia Verhoeven, the author of “The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism.”
Egypt: The Day the Secrets Were Revealed (Videos)
After the Egyptians succeeded in toppling Hosni Mubarak - they set their goal on cutting the hydra's tentacles. A full-waged war started last night against the dreaded State Security apparatus, known as Amn Dawla in Arabic, after news was filtered that this notorious organisation was burning and shredding dossiers and documents. Protesters stormed into the centres, to reveal secrets hidden within their walls.
