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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
Read MoreBarack Obama’s next two years 0
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
Read MoreMohamed ElBaradei lands in Cairo: ‘There’s no going back’ 0
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
Read MorePAESE BASCO: SCIOPERO GENERALE CONTRO LA RIFORMA DELLE PENSIONI 0
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
Read MoreHaiti candidate pulled from runoff 0
Post Views: 8 Ruling party says it has withdrawn Jude Celestin from second round of presidential poll after international pressure Protesters have claimed that the November elections were marred by fraud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
Read MoreVenice Commission supports reshaping Turkish high judiciary 0
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
Read MoreDefining poverty 0
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
Read MoreAli Baba gone, but what about the 40 thieves? 0
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
Read MoreExchange Rates and Reserve Currencies 0
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.
Read MoreEgypt protests continue into second day despite ban and police presence 0
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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