Day of reckoning in Egypt 0

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Post Views: 5 Anti-government demonstrators watch as tear gas is fired by police in an attempt to disperse them in the port city of Suez. Photo: Mohamed Abd El-Ghany /Reuters Activists geared up for the biggest protests yet today to

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Barack Obama’s next two years 0

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Post Views: 3 WASHINGTON, DC  STRANGE and unpredictable are the ups and downs of American politics. On Capitol Hill this week Barack Obama gave the state-of-the-union speech that launches the second half of his first term as president. He told

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Mohamed ElBaradei lands in Cairo: ‘There’s no going back’ 0

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Post Views: 4 Supporters insist Egypt’s people will make change from below Jack Shenker in Cairo   Mohamed ElBaradei gives an impromptu press conference at Cairo airport, urging the Egyptian regime to exercise restraint with protesters. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP Many

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PAESE BASCO: SCIOPERO GENERALE CONTRO LA RIFORMA DELLE PENSIONI 0

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Post Views: 5 Con la consueta diatriba sulla dimensione della adesioni – nella sua edizione on line, il quotidiano basco Deia titola “i sindacati dicono che è un esito, gli industriali un fallimento”- si è svolto nel Paese basco lo

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Haiti candidate pulled from runoff 0

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Post Views: 8 Ruling party says it has withdrawn Jude Celestin from second round of presidential poll after international pressure  Protesters have claimed that the November elections were marred by fraud [AFP] Haiti’s ruling party has announced that it is pulling its

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Venice Commission supports reshaping Turkish high judiciary 0

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Post Views: 8 ABDULLAH BOZKURT STRASBOURG A senior official of the 47-member Council of Europe advisory body on constitutional and legal reforms has said it is necessary for Turkey to increase the number of judges and chambers in the highest

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Defining poverty 0

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Post Views: 9 Measure by measure The world’s richest country tries to count its poor MOST people have an inherent sense of what it means to be poor. But choosing a definition is much trickier. Is poverty an absolute or

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Ali Baba gone, but what about the 40 thieves? 0

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Post Views: 3 The flight of Tunisia’s longtime president leaves the small country he ruled and robbed in upheaval. Its Arab neighbours wonder whether it’s the start of a trend “TUNISIA now lives in fear,” Libya’s ruler, Muammar Qaddafi, told

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Exchange Rates and Reserve Currencies 0

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Post Views: 9 China Plans Path to Economic Hegemony By Wieland Wagner AFP China would like to make the yuan one of the world’s anchor currencies, forcing other countries to maintain reserves of Chinese money and providing significant advantages for Beijing.

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Egypt protests continue into second day despite ban and police presence 0

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Post Views: 4 Demonstrators and police play violent game of cat and mouse through Cairo’s streets amid calls for restraint Peter Beaumont in Cairo Riot police clash with anti-government demonstrators in Cairo on a second day of protests across Egypt.

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