At the same time, the state has developed a stronger grip on investors and different media channels and newspapers.

The expression of this desire is especially important now that the world is gripped by a terrifying economic crisis.

Europe needs, first and foremost, to break the vicious circle of recession, unemployment, and austerity that now has it in its grip.

Once masters of the situation, it is said, the zeal of those who promised reform mutated into a zeal to preserve their private wealth and that of their friends.

)At any rate, all scholars accept that during the 11th century, Pagan consolidated its hold of Upper Burma, and established its authority over Lower Burma.

During Samuel's reign, Bulgaria gained control of most of the Balkans (with the notable exception of Thrace) as far as southern Greece.

With ISIS jihadists controlling important petroleum resources in Syria and Iraq, Xi Jinping s government will be hoping to secure its oil supply in the broader region.

Israel had tightened its grip on the water resources of the occupied Syrian Golan through two companies, Hatal and Merokot which exploited the waters of the local rivers and hot springs.

Significantly, as the CIA closed in on bin Laden, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, for the first time publicly linked the Pakistani military with some of the militants attacking US forces in Afghanistan.