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Bulgaria's Culture Minister, Vezhdi Rashidov, presented Thursday his report for his first 100 days in office, including the results from inspections of the previous administration. “A lot of money have been siphoned off from the cultural institutions...
Tags: Vezhdi Rashidov, cultural minister, BGNES Bulgaria, cultural institutions, minister rashidov, Bulgaria, Sofia, Ministry of Culture, Politics, Sharof Rashidov, Stefan Danailov, Social Issues
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) since it was formed in 1945. I shall be guided in my work by my concept of a new humanism for the 21st century." The race for the top job had been marred by controversy around the leading...
Tags: cultural minister, Irina Bokova, Bokova Formally Confirmed, Egyptian, minister farouk, director general, UNESCO
Passages of a 2005 book by Frederick Mitterand, the culture minister, were not apologies for sex tourism or paedophilia, he told French TV. Writing in The Bad Life, he described paying for male sex as a thrill. Mr Mitterand, nephew of late President Francois...
Tags: Frederic Mitterrand, cultural minister, Thailand, Mr Mitterrand, Roman Polanski, Frédéric Mitterrand, minister frederic, describes paying, Polanski Defense
Film director Roman Polanski, arrested earlier this week in Switzerland, saw support weaken on Wednesday for his effort to evade sentencing in the United States in the rape of a 13-year-old girl three decades ago. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...
Tags: Roman Polanski, Mr. Polanski, old girl, Switzerland, having sex, cultural minister, French, U.S
Egypt's culture minister on Wednesday blamed a conspiracy "cooked up in New York" by the world's Jews for keeping him from becoming the next head of the U.N.'s agency for culture and education. It was clear by the end of the competition that there was...
Tags: Irina Bokova, Egypt, Farouk Hosny, Bokova Saved UNESCO, cultural minister, Unesco, Faruq Hosni, Mr. Hosni, Paris, Bulgarian National Radio, Cairo
Jewish organizations, intellectuals and media rights activists who accused him of turning a blind eye to censorship in Egypt. But his backers said it was time to send a positive signal to the Muslim world, and Arab media touted him as an ideal representative...
Tags: Bulgarian Irina Georgieva Bokova, Irina Bokova, Bulgaria UNESCO, Egyptian, Egypt Unesco, cultural minister, Unesco council, Farouk Hosni, France, fifth round, Paris
Former culture minister Ferdando Chui was elected as Macau's new leader Sunday after running unopposed in a poll of the former Portuguese colony's leading citizens. A 300-strong election panel, formed from representatives of Macau's business and political...
Tags: Former Macau, Fernando Chui, Ferdando Chui, cultural minister, chief executive, member election, Portuguese, gambling enclave
Labour's spokeswoman on culture discusses the announcement by culture minister Mike Russell that it is too late to alter the Scottish Government's plans to create a new body, Creative Scotland, from two existing organisations.
Turkish Daily News The behind the scenes diplomacy between Ankara and Yerevan, which set the ground for President Abdullah Gül's landmark visit to Armenia, continues this week in Switzerland with its third round between top diplomats of the two countries.
Tags: Turkey-Armenia, Armenian, Turkish, cultural minister, Ertuğrul Günay
Hashemi, a lawyer with the main Sunni bloc the National Concord Front, was tried in absentia...Alusi's sons were ambushed by gunmen in western Baghdad in February 2005. Two gunmen were later detained and reportedly confessed to receiving orders from Hashemi.
Tags: Assad Kamal al-Hashemi, Baghdad, cultural minister, Mithal al-Alusi, Northern Iraq, Iraqi