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Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced trip to Ukraine Thursday -- paying his second visit to the country's capital city since the war with Russia began more than six months ago. The top US diplomat will meet with Ukrainian officials. His trip comes as Ukraine has launched a counteroffensives aimed at reclaiming Russian occupied areas in the south and northeast of the country. It also coincides with a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, hosted by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

The season's festivities in Denmark have been overshadowed by the prospect that it could be the last Danish Christmas before a European Union ban on their beloved kanelsnegler or cinnamon rolls. The proposed ban followed plans by Denmark's food safety agency to implement EU regulations aimed at limiting the amount of coumarin, a naturally occurring toxic chemical found in the most commonly used type of cinnamon, cassia. Under Danish interpretation of the EU legislation the amount of cinnamon in "everyday fine baked goods" will be limited to 15mg per kilo meaning a ban on Kanelsnegler pastries, a winter favourite in...

Print Article         Close Window     Spanish Flee By Reid Collins Published 3/16/2004 12:04:48 AM It works! Terrorism, that is. When applied in the right place. And the implications of the Madrid train bombing are enormous. Rather than vent their anger in the direction of terror, the Spanish electorate ousted their own conservative government in favor of socialists who promise a more benign attitude toward terror! For starters, the removal of the token force of 1,300 Spanish forces sent in as an earnest of support for the Bush administration's preemption in Iraq. Before the bombings, opinion polls had indicated...

A Growing Angst Almost a year ago I was driving to work when at 9:00 AM I heard that a plane collided into the World Trade Center in New York. I was driving into the Princeton, New Jersey area on Route 1 as I listened to Howard Stern announce the news, interrupting himself and his irrelevant comments on Pamela Anderson’s… something. Tuning to 770 AM WABC, I heard the reporter talking about the fire in Tower 1. He then got an eyewitness to the event on an adjacent building on the phone to describe the fire when the witness screamed...