Others attributed it to official mismanagement and neglect of the power grid.Police in Ontario arrested a Canadian citizen of Chinese descent on suspicion of trying to pass secrets about Canada's naval shipbuilding programme to China.Motor City under the wheelsA federal judge decided that Detroit should be protected under federal bankruptcy laws so that it can restructure its debt commitments.
The fine line that this family, Israeli Christians of Lebanese descent, has tried to walk for many years had been blurred with the bombing that killed 19 people, including one of Mr. Mattar's nephews.
Mr Pae, believed to be a tour operator of Korean descent, was tried on 30 April.
John Demjanjuk, a US citizen of Ukrainian descent, was tried and sentenced to death in 1986 in Israel as a guard named "Ivan the Terrible" at the Treblinka death camp.
(so if you don't already have naturally straight hair, buy a hair straightener, from a close drugstore near your area, or if you don't want to burn your hair, use heat protection, or use a blowdryer,brush, and hairspray to keep it looking straight. Heather is of Asian descent. Try to look like you have Asian facial features.
As Felix (Sami Bouajila), a freewheeling gay dockworker of Arab descent, tries to find his father in "Adventures of Felix," a slight comedy-drama, he wanders into a whole new family.
Back in Molenbeek, Montasser AlDe'emeh, a jihadi expert, of Palestinian descent, tries to help young jihadis returning from Syria to reintegrate into Belgian society.
During the referendum debates, a few pro-remain voices, such as the TUC general secretary, Frances O'Grady (herself of Irish descent), tried to make a gentle plea to voters to think about Ireland and the Belfast agreement.
This summer, a woman of Arab descent tried to enter a Paris swimming pool wearing a head-to-toe black swimsuit dubbed a "burqini" and was expelled.
I am among those former Moscow correspondents, and those people of Russian descent, who have tried to stay optimistic about today's Russia and President Vladimir Putin, even in the face of all the distressing reports about Chechnya, the Yukos oil company, the media clampdown and the swelling powers of the Kremlin.
