 | Ten years at the top for Vladimir Putin
BBC News | Cast your mind back to 31 December 1999. In Moscow, it is the last day of a century that has seen revolution and the collapse of communism. | Everyone in the Russian capital is waiting for reassuran... (photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko) | |
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 Shibu Soren - popular politician despite corruption, murder taints
The Siasat Daily | Ranchi, December 30: He is a politician to the core, known as a champion of the poor and hugely popular despite being dogged by bribery allegations. Shibu Soren, who became Jharkhand's chief ministe... (photo: PIB of India) |
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 Zuma's election as SA President ends ANC power struggle
Zeenews Johannesburg: South African leader Jacob Zuma overcame rape and graft charges to be overwhelmingly elected as President of the country in 2009, ending a long- drawn power struggle in the ruling ANC, a... (photo: PIB of India / Photo Division,Ministry of I & B,Govt.of India) |
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 Taliban courts more popular than Karzai govt in Afghanistan
Zeenews Kabul: More and more Afghans are turning to Taliban courts to get speedy justice, as the corrupt and incompetent government of President Hamid Karzai has proved to be fut... (photo: AP / David Guttenfelder) |
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 Japan targets 4M new jobs by 2020
Inquirer | TOKYO – Japan unveiled an ambitious goal Wednesday to create more than four million jobs by 2020 and achieve robust economic growth with steps to boost the tourism, env... (photo: AP / Issei Kato, Pool) |
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 RP foreign debt rises to $53.1B
Inquirer | Most Read Business Gov't to issue P110B in debt paper Crisis? What crisis? Oh my gas! Experts to meet to prepare RP economy for global rebound RP foreign debt rises to ... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal) |
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 Johann Hari: Amid dark times, meet the most inspiring people of 2009
The Independent | It was a dark year, 2009, sealing a dark decade. It began with the world in economic free-fall and the Gaza Strip being bombed to pieces (again). We watched the vicious... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) |
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 Afghans turn to Taleban justice as insurgents set up shadow government
The Times | When Habiba's elderly husband was badly beaten in a village brawl there was only one place, she said, that she could turn to for help and justice. | Barefoot and weepin... (photo: AP / Emilio Morenatti) |
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 Need to know: ING sells Antai ... Opel sales up ... Google sued
The Times | View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap | Economics | UK housing: Britons paid off £4.91 billion in mortgage debts between July and September, figures from the ... (photo: Public Domain / Matthias93) |
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 China Finds $35 Billion in Fraud by Officials
The New York Times | SHANGHAI - Chinese officials misused or embezzled about $35 billion in government money in the first 11 months of the year, according to a national audit released this ... (photo: AP / EyePress) |
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 Did Israel Win Gaza?
Khaleej Times Did Israel win? On the first anniversary of the Gaza War, alias Operation Cast Lead, this question fills the public space. | Within the Israeli consensus, the answer has ... (photo: AP / Sebastian Scheiner) |
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 From Ceausescu to the New Italy
Wall Street Journal By JIM ROSAPEPE AND SHEILAH KAST | The recent election in Romania, in which President Traian Basescu was re-elected with 50.3% of the vote, underlined why, 20 years after... (photo: EC / European Communities 2009) |
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