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French President Nicolas Sarkozy addresses the 20th congress of the European People's Party, EPP, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011 in Marseille, southern France.
Election   French   Photos   Race   Wikipedia/Nicolas Sarkozy  
 Kansas City Star 
French president tweets as election race looms
Philippe Wojazer, Pool France's President Nicolas Sarkozy is seen as he visits a solar panel maker Photowatt, which was placed in bankruptcy protection last November 2011, in Bourgoin-Jallieu, central... (photo: AP / Jean-Paul Pelissier)
Backdropped by the Greek Parliament, communist party affiliated protesters march and shout slogans during a rally against the government's latest austerity measures and plans to sell off state enterprises in central Athens, Saturday, June 18, 2011.
Economy   Europe   Greece   Photos   Wikipedia: Greek government debt crisis  
 Chicago Tribune 
Analysis: Greece heads for record books as economy slumps
| LONDON (Reuters) - Entering the fifth year of recession, Greece is writing its name in the book of unwanted records for one of the deepest economic slumps of modern times. | The Greek economy shrank... (photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis)
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks to media during a news conference in the capital, Minsk, Monday, Dec. 20, 2010. International observers and Western governments accused Belarus' strongman leader of using fraud and violence to remain in power after more than 16 years of repressive rule, saying Monday that President Alexander Lukashenko's re-election had been seriously flawed.  Novosti 
Lukashenko Urges Russia to Expedite Nuke Plant Construction
| Belarus has asked Russia's national development bank Vnesheconombank (VEB) to speed up construction of the country's first $9-billion nuclear power station, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko... (photo: AP / Sergei Grits)
Belarus   Photos   Politics   Russia   Wikipedia:Belarusian nuclear power plant project  
A Delta Airlines Boeing 757 flies very low over the turnpike, just north of Newark Liberty International Airport.  Springfield News-Sun 
EU open to talks but won't scrap carbon tax
| SINGAPORE — Europe is willing to discuss its new carbon emissions tax for airlines with disgruntled governments but has no plans to scrap the levy, top EU officials said Monday. | Airlines and... (photo: Creative Commons / KOknockout)
Airlines   Industry   Photos   Transport   Wikipedia: Carbon tax  
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In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and acquired by the AP, taken on Friday, May 6, 2011, Syrian anti-government protesters carry a banner that reads in Arabic:"we're not going to shut up on the blood of our martyrs civilians and soldiers and our blood is not more precious than the blood of our brothers, Homs Youth," and " free people of the Syrian army, we are your brothers, fathers and children," during a rally in the central city of Homs, Syria. Ha'aretz
Russia set to block Arab plan on Syria
| Syrian forces bombarded districts of Homs on Saturday in a campaign to crush a revolt against President Bashar Assad, whose ally Russia said it would not support an Ara... (photo: AP)
Arab   Photos   Russia   Syria   Wikipedia: Bashar al-Assad  
A Lebanese Swedish woman cries as she is being evacuated from Lebanon with her family, on buses organized by the Swedish embassy, from a road intersection , leading out of the Hezbollah stronghold of south Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 18, 2006. About 850 Swedes among about 5,000 in Lebanon have been evacuated, most to Aleppo in northern Syria. Westerners fled by land, sea and air as Israel launched waves of bombings that hit south Beirut, the border and the eastern city of Baalbek in the early hours Tuesday. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) Al Jazeera
Syrians trade blame over Aleppo bombings
| Syria's opposition has denied claims by the government that it was behind bomb attacks in the northern city of Aleppo that left dozens of people dea... (photo: AP / Hussein Malla)
Bombing   Photos   Syria   Violence   Wikipedia: Aleppo  
 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, opens a meeting as Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stands up to speak at the Foreign Ministry, during the meeting with Russian Ambassadors to different countries in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, July 15, 2008. The new president said Russian diplomats should avoid confrontation in protecting the country's interests, but he stuck close to his predecessor Vladimir Putin's line on a series of prominent foreign policy iss Gulf News
Russia, China complicit in carnage inflicted on Syrians
| The adjectives (or perhaps they were epithets) used to describe it were vociferous and blunt, rarely used in diplomatic parlance: the Syrian regime was identified as ba... (photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko, Poo)
China   Diplomatic   Photos   Russia   Wikipedia: Timeline of the 20112012 Syrian uprising (from January 2012)  
Hugo Chavez in Guatemala The Star
Venezuela primary to set up Capriles-Chavez showdown
| CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition supporters vote on Sunday in a primary likely to anoint youthful governor Henrique Capriles as the candidate to face socialist... (photo: Creative Commons / Avala)
Opposition   Photos   Venezuela   Vote   Wikipedia/Hugo Chavez  
Syrians hold a large poster depicting Syria's President Bashar Assad during a rally in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. The New York Times
Why Russia Supports Assad
| Two senior Russian officials, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Mikhail Fradkov, the director of Foreign Intelligence, have just been to Damascus. Cristóbal Schmal | ... (photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman)
Arab   Photos   Russia   Syria   Wikipedia: Bashar al-Assad  
A line of defence for zebras The Hindu
A line of defence for zebras
Scientists claim to have finally solved the mystery of why zebras evolved their distinctive black and white stripes — to keep blood-sucking flies at bay. | Research... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Hungary   Photos   Scientists   Wikipedia: Zebra   Zebra  
Syria forces bombard Homs, UN condemns Zeenews
Syria forces bombard Homs, UN condemns
Amman/Beirut: Syrian forces bombarded opposition-held neighborhoods of the city of Homs with rocket and mortar fire on Thursday, activists said, as divided world powers s... (photo: UN / UN)
Amman   Beirut   Photos   Syria   UN   Wikipedia: Syria  
Two Syrian rebels evacuate an injured fellow rebel in Idlib, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. Khaleej Times
UN condemns 'appalling brutality' in Syria
AMMAN/BEIRUT - Syrian forces bombarded opposition-held neighbourhoods of the city of Homs with rocket and mortar fire on Thursday, activists said, as divided world powers... (photo: AP)
Human Rights   Photos   Syria   UN   Wikipedia: 20112012 Syrian uprising  
FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012 file photo, a mother and calf common dolphin are transported to the beach by a team from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and the New England Aquarium before being released back into Cape Cod Bay at Scusset Beach, in Sagamore Beach, Mass. Pakalert Press
Mystery: Mass Dolphin Deaths By Beaching
Share | Heather Callaghan | Activist Post | Around 129 dolphins mysteriously beached themselves upon Cape Cod in the last few weeks. The death toll is now up to 92, a ble... (photo: AP / Julia Cumes)
Deaths   Dolphins   Photos   Wikipedia: Cape Cod Bay   Wildlife  
Politics Business
- Iran issue needs diplomacy, not crude weapon
- Like father, like son
- French president tweets as election race looms
- French president tweets as election race looms
French President Nicolas Sarkozy addresses the 20th congress of the European People's Party, EPP, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011 in Marseille, southern France.
French president tweets as election race looms
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- French president tweets as election race looms
- Judge quashes Transocean's subpoena to BP employee
- This Time The Joke Is Not On Poland
- Bulgaria suspends vote on trade agreement
Backdropped by the Greek Parliament, communist party affiliated protesters march and shout slogans during a rally against the government's latest austerity measures and plans to sell off state enterprises in central Athens, Saturday, June 18, 2011.
Analysis: Greece heads for record books as economy slumps
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Education Technology
- British teachers say Romani children from Central Europe do
- Children given detention for speaking French in school on Fl
- Title IX complaints filed against 5 school districts
- London 'second to Paris in best student cities'
University College London at Gower Street in London, United Kingdom.
London 'second to Paris in best student cities'
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- French president tweets as election race looms
- French president tweets as election race looms
- Bulgaria suspends vote on trade agreement
- Bulgaria suspends vote on trade agreement
Europe freeze kills 89, fears rise over Russian gas
Europe freeze kills 89, fears rise over Russian gas
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Trade Health
- Markets Are Mixed in Early Trading
- FTSE CLOSE: Weak economic growth across the eurozone causes
- Miners drag as FTSE stalls in tight range
- US stock futures up as Greek bailout inches closer
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France may avoid recession after Q4 tops forecasts
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- A U.N. Call to Aid Iraq's Iranian Refugees
- EU to double investment in mansion-sized supercomputers
- Norwegian Supreme Court upholds new appraisal for Breivik
- Dutch lawmaker tells critics to mind own business
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov listens for a question during a news conference with Slovenian Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar, unseen, in Moscow Wednesday, April 8, 2009. The foreign ministers of Russia and Slovenia, Sergei Lavrov and Samuel Zbogar, meet on Wednesday in Moscow to discuss economic ties and cooperation within the framework of the European Union.
Russian foreign minister to hold Syria talks
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