BAGHDAD, Oct. 31 — Iraqi officials asked for Iran's help on Wednesday in negotiating a diplomatic solution to the standoff with Turkey over Kurdish guerrillas who have been using northern Iraq as a base to stage raids on Turkish troops across the border.
During the eight days that the two spacecraft flew as one, the astronauts installed a $164 million passageway for spacewalkers, hooked high-pressure gas tanks to it and used it as a base to stage the third and final spacewalk of the mission.
It is where the insurgency first rose, where Al Qaeda established a base to stage spectacular attacks that ignited the sectarian bloodletting and also where the tide of the war began to shift in America's favor as tribal leaders and former insurgents turned against Al Qaeda.
At this moment in the record industry any label would be thrilled to have an artist with a fan base passionate enough to stage a protest on her behalf.
But Donald Trump's core support among blue-collar white voters remains largely intact, giving him a base from which to try to stage a comeback in the campaign's final phase, judging by a raft of new polls released in the last several days.
Unita uses its bases to stage attacks against Angolan government forces.
If he can show producers, web animators, media moguls (Would Barry Diller not take a chance on a semi-reformed, entertaining Charlie?), whomever, that he has a base of support, he can start to stage a real media comeback.
Third, the prospect of a large, ungoverned space close to Europe that could be used as a base from which to stage an attack on Britain is troubling.Yet there is a big reason not to fear the returnees.
Munnery's latest show purports to be an attempt to stage a musical based on the R101 airship crash of 1930 (which resulted in a higher death toll than the Hindenburg disaster) but, inevitably, it contains a huge number of wildly disparate, inventive elements that reflect the comedian's latest obsessions.
Given that the line between reality and virtuality seems to get blurrier as the days go by, it's perhaps not a massive surprise that Berlin based producer Laurel Halo's set to stage a performance with, and alongside, a virtual pop star as part of next year's CTM Festival in Germany.
