She spoke of the strained relations between the Cayman Islands and the administering Power and of the ever increasing disparity of their interests.

As in Ituri, the repercussions of these tensions had their greatest impact on the civilian population.

President Barack Obama recently journeyed to Moscow in order to reset strained United States Russian ties.

NEW DELHI Political transitions in East Asia promise to mark a defining moment in the region s jittery geopolitics.

The other three are Syria s behavior in Iraq, its relations with the US, and the need for domestic reform.

Troubled relations between Burma s government and its ethnic minorities constitute a serious obstacle in the country s path to stability and prosperity.

The tense relationship between the incumbent Arab regimes and political Islam is not necessarily a zero sum game.

China must also consider the implications of North Korea s actions on its own fractious relations with Japan.

A century ago, a French politician was no more likely to advocate peace and detente with Germany than a modern Arab politician is likely to advocate peace and detente with Israel.

There was patent gloating about the German defeat everywhere, only thinly disguised behind strained expressions of solidarity.

In Egypt, the tense, polarized environment following the military s overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi has created the real possibility of civil conflict.

With all the attention devoted to strained transatlantic relations, it is easy to overlook how often our preoccupations overlap.

No one in our delegation was sure what to expect, given the uneasy relations between our two countries at the time.

The President has appointed the late Ken Saro Wiwa s son as one of his special assistants, in an attempt to mend fences with political elites in the restive delta.

His attack on the legislation, which continued unremittingly throughout May and into June and July, further strained his already tense relationship with the government.

Such mass migration will severely hurt already strained social relations in some countries and lead to unpredictable consequences.

Only the presence of foreign troops slows the further balkanization of the country s already fractious politics.

China s role in restraining North Korea s nuclear ambitions and its tense relations with Japan are an additional burden on ties.

French Nuclear testing in the Pacific, and the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior strained French relations with its Allies, South Pacific states (namely New Zealand), and world opinion.

While Merkel opposes Hollande s proposal to create Eurobonds with a view to financing industrial projects, they cannot afford to waste time in reassuring jittery markets with a message of cohesion.

With the tense relation the Egyptians are having with the military, and with the incidents of protesters being ran over by armoured vehicles, Ahmad Gharbeia found some symbols to be really odd and shouldn't have been accepted by the candidates.

This incident highlights the need to effectively address the strained relationship between the two security forces, including through a clear definition of their respective roles and disciplinary action against those responsible for the latest incident.

We do not know whether superstorms like Sandy are harbingers of a new normal in the uneasy and unpredictable relationship between climate change and extreme weather events.

The European Union continues its internal debate over how best to bail out its failing banks and industries, handle the fallout from EU and euro zone expansion, and manage increasingly rocky relations with Russia.

So, even as Turkey tries to deal with the consequences of its history at home, and redefine the army s role in society, it must reset its tortured relationship with Armenia.

While the packed parliament speculated nervously, Mazowiecki slipped out of a side entrance to get some fresh air in nearby Ujazdowski Park in central Warsaw.

As I argue in my book The Globalization Paradox, expanding the scope for national governments to maintain regulatory diversity and rebuild frayed social bargains would enhance the functioning of the global economy.

If domestic tensions, above all within Iran s restive middle class, ease as a result, the government will receive the credit, while the Iranian Republican Guard and other hardliners will be weakened.

This has been officially admitted, so why reopen the ghastly business now, at a time when rescinding the apology would make Japan s already strained relations with China and South Korea many times worse?

Of course, Kenya had lived through tense electoral periods before, and few people who know Africa were blind to the many difficulties the country continued to face.

Strained political relations among most of Asia s sub regions make a region wide security structure or more effective resource cooperation difficult to achieve.

Despite the extensive physical damage and loss of life inflicted on the country by some of Ben Ali s die hard supporters, the tense and dangerous few days that followed the dictator s fall did not change the course of the revolution.

In 1054, after centuries of strained relations, the Great Schism occurred over differences in doctrine, splitting the Christian world between the Catholic Church, centered in Rome and dominant in the West, and the Orthodox Church, centered in Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire.

Indeed, it is our belief that the recent death sentences could mark the onset of an avalanche of highly doubtful Court rulings in Tibet, which could lead to a worrying number of executions in that tense and troubled region.

But, just as the 700 billion TARP did not assuage nervousness financial markets in 2008, so the ESM s 500 billion seems to have left investors unimpressed.

Authorities in New France capitalized on turmoil in the English colonies in the aftermath of the 1688 Glorious Revolution to launch raids with their Indian allies against targets on the already tense frontiers of New England and New York.

During its visit to Aru and Ariwara, the Group was able to observe the tenuous security situation which remains despite the wide scale disarmament of General Jérôme's FAPC forces.

Instead of overseeing the government s management of the outbreak, Hirotaka Akamatsu, the minister of agriculture, forestry, and fishing, took a long trip to Cuba to meet Raúl Castro a very strange decision given strained US Japan relations.

But, while Japan s tense relationship with China dominates headlines worldwide, the strategic rivalry between China and India is more likely to shape Asian power dynamics in the coming decades.

He says On the same day that Iran launched its missile testing and created an uncertainty of what may happen over the next few days in our turbulent region, MBC launched a new Persian language channel, featuring dubbed American movies.

She will govern a country with substantial public debt (60 of GDP), a volatile currency, and high inflation. Nervous financial markets will keep the government on a tight leash.

In addition, there are substantial concerns about political stability in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia s oil rich Eastern Province, and potentially even in Kuwait and Jordan all areas with substantial Shia or other restless populations.

An aggressive debater, Kan is often mentioned as a candidate to succeed Hatoyama should he leave his post a live possibility, given the prime minister s plummeting approval ratings and strained relationship with Ichiro Ozawa, the kingpin of Hatoyama s Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ).

The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension dominated flatland, we live in a social world. We swim through a sea of people a social version of Middle World.

America cannot realistically expect its allies let alone countries like Iran and Venezuela, with which its relations are strained to adopt principled foreign policies when Middle East Realpolitik distorts its own foreign policy.