Europe s Shaky Foundations

And it has allowed Kosovo, Albania, and Macedonia to linger on the crumbling edge of the failed state abyss.

Catherine successfully waged war against the decaying Ottoman Empire and advanced Russia's southern boundary to the Black Sea.

The Advisory Committee recognizes the obligation of the United Nations to provide safe and sanitary accommodation for troops, and the necessity of transferring them from their current dilapidated premises.

And he can dismiss the prime minister, Khalifa bin Salman al Khalifa, who has exhausted many on both sides of the sectarian divide during his 40 years in power.

America cannot continue to live with the injustices of its health care system or with crumbling and obsolete infrastructure.

During the late spring of 1944, Schörner managed in a series of defensive battles to stabilize the crumbling front in the south on the Dniester River in Romania.

Worse still, it seems that only the same system in which siloviki (secret policemen) are in charge appears capable of holding together such a ramshackle economic empire.

Well, there are a couple estimates of how much it would cost to create a network of protected areas covering 20 percent of the ocean that would be only a fraction of what we are now paying the government hands out to a fishery that is collapsing.