Russia

Tourists undeterred by war

Russia has been thrust into the spotlight of the world media due to the conflict in South Ossetia and its involvement has been widely condemned in some quarters.

Angola

Resource-rich Angola creeps out of tortured past

Standing high above the African savannah at the giant rocks of Pungo Andongo in north-central Angola's remote province of Malanje, you can feel the weight of history reverberating from the soles of yo

Has Georgia's president picked a fight he can't win?

Mr. Saakashvili has bluffed. The Russians called his bluff. Is the West now stuck with bailing him out?

The victims, of course, are the civilians of Georgia and its breakaway South Ossetia region, caught in the escalating battle between the Georgian military and South Ossetian forces and their powerful

Iraq

Can Iraq's new calm hold?

Washington - After more than a year of taking a wait-and-watch approach to the surge of US forces in Iraq, military commanders and independent experts now seem more confident that it could be the begi

sudan: so, the animals survived... send in the tourists

Sudan to upgrade tourism facilities after animals survive war

Southern Sudan plans to upgrade its tourist facilities after aerial surveys showed that millions of animals, including 8,000 elephants, in two wildlife reserves survived the nation's 21-year civil war

Abkhazia

Stalin's favorite retreat, war-ravaged Abkhazia, lures tourists

Abkhazia, on the edge of the Black Sea, northeast of Georgia, has palm trees, subtropical summers and a stunning coastline. The hot sun once tanned Josef Stalin and Mikhail Gorbachev.

Israel-Palestine Tourism

Sound Off: Letter from Palestine

Rami Kassis typically does what most Palestinians do when being blind to the PA's internal problems - blame Israel.

Is it Israel's fault that the Palestinians voted for Hamas which began a reign of terror within the Palestinian population in 2006 and exacerbate an already fraught Israeli-Palestinian conflict because of its overriding aim ... read more