THIS weekend, Helmut Schmidt and Henry Kissinger will participate in a discussion at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) — just as they did a half-century ago, when they took part in the first “Internationale Wehrkunde- Begegnung” (the forerunner of today’s conference).

North Korea says its nominal head of state will visit Iran to attend an international summit next week.

RUSSIA’S envoy to the European Union complained of anti-Russian bias among the bloc’s new members in an interview published yesterday, a week before the EU-Russia summit.