His statement has had little impact.

His declaration was greeted by a roar of applause from the studio audience.

And Liu Xiaobo should be honored for saying so.

Trump seems happy to encourage self proclaimed Russian patriots like Olshansky, judging by his most recent comment on Crimea.

With his Declaration of 1927, he made the church in the Soviet Union a political tool of the atheist government.

Han Meilin was badly persecuted during the Cultural Revolution. His declaration was greeted by a roar of applause from the studio audience.

Morales confessed to the Treasury Police that he had been part of the commando that had carried out the Zona Rosa operation and he confirmed his statement to the judge of the Fifth Criminal Court.

So clearly, his statement, his conclusion, was incorrect, that when you put a positive number here, it doesn't always produce a prime number.

European fixed income markets rallied strongly as a result, only to reverse course days later when Trichet and his colleagues made it clear that the markets had misread him.

Malaysian Home Minister Hishammudin Hussein was quoted as saying that Malaysia would repatriate Kashgari to Saudi Arabia. A Facebook page in solidarity with Kashgari that emerged mid week has more than 1,500 members.

In this case, it seems that Netanyahu may have gone too far after more than a week of condemnation, including from Israeli historians, he was forced to retract the statement. But he is unlikely to be chastened.

In 1965, Pakistani Foreign Minister Zulficar Ali Bhutto famously declared that if India, its sworn enemy, went nuclear, his country would eat grass and even go hungry in order to develop a nuclear bomb of its own.

Once secure in his victory, Netanyahu immediately retracted the statement. He claimed that he meant only that a two state solution was not achievable under current conditions, as long as the Palestinian Authority is in a coalition with Hamas and as long as vacated territories bring the rise of militant Islam.

European fixed income markets rallied strongly as a result, only to reverse course days later when Trichet and his colleagues made it clear that the markets had misread him. So there was unwelcome and unneeded market volatility because Trichet couldn t get the message out straight.