They met on the beach in Rio de Janeiro. He was an honorary consul for Barbados and she was a tourist hospitality agent in town. “I had come after work,
Some of the most fascinating art in the District is tucked away in the city’s embassies, where rotating exhibitions feature works by artists hailing from the missions’ respective countries. These
If rhetoric is, as the ancients defined it, speech intended to persuade, then few contemporary politicians seem more devoted practitioners of the art than Vladimir Putin. Rarely does he speak
On Aug. 10, Turkey will elect its president by popular vote for the first time in history amid a period of acute political polarization. But the election itself might not
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Bosnia’s claim to fame — at least before the 1990s, when it became synonymous with ethnic cleansing and genocide — had always been that it was the birthplace of World
Nicholas Burns, the respected former American diplomat who served three presidents while working on some of the nation’s most intractable foreign policy challenges, offered a prediction at the outset of
Embroiled in a political and regulatory quagmire that has prevented Canada from acting on ambitions to supply the United States with more crude oil, the Canadian American Business Council (CABC)
EVENT CATEGORIES Art Dance Discussions Festivals Music Theater ART July 1 to Oct. 26 Symbols of Honor: Heraldry and Family History in Shakespeare’s England This show — the largest
Languages Cantonese German Mandarin English Hebrew Polish French Italian Georgian Japanese Cantonese AberdeenDirected by Pang Ho-cheung(Hong Kong, 2014, 96 min.)In the town of Aberdeen, a family mourns the loss of
Cover Story Long-Suffering Spain Stumbles Forward in Road to Recovery Spanish Ambassador Ramón Gil-Casares says his country can finally see the light at the end of a long tunnel littered
July 2014 There were no appointments this month.
