French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, speaks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a round table session at an EU summit in Brussels, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. EU leaders meet for a one-day summit on Friday, with energy, the eurozone debt crisis and unrest in Egypt set to dominate the agenda.
photo: AP / Yves Logghe
Eurozone: France and Germany urge common taxes
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The Franco-German alliance is going at full throttle ahead of the summit. The leaders of France and Germany have called jointly for eurozone countries to have common corporation and financial transaction taxes. The tax policy would apply initially to the 17-member eurozone. France has long complained about Ireland's low corporation tax rate of...
Syrian President Bashar Assad addresses the opening session of the transit Arab Parliamentarian Union in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008. Syria's president has criticized a proposed American-Iraqi security pact that would keep U.S. troops in Iraq for three more y
photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi
Syria’s Assad denies ordering crackdown
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BEIRUTSyria’s President Bashar al-Assad distanced himself Wednesday from the bloodshed in his country, saying he never ordered the suppression of demonstrations, even as activists reported dozens of tanks and hundreds of soldiers converging on the central city of Homs, where residents said violence was at its peak since...
Afghans carrying a body for the funeral of a victim, who was killed in Tuesday's suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011.
photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq
Kabul blast raises fears of sect war
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AN OBSCURE Pakistani extremist cell has claimed responsibility for the unprecedented bombing of a Shiite religious ceremony in Kabul, but there are growing fears across Afghanistan the attack could open a new, sectarian front in the country's long-running war. The little-known, but radical, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi...
File - An Iraqi contractor (back row, right) assists an Iraqi mother and her children  by pushing a wheel barrow carrying food and supplies collected at a humanitarian assistance site, manned by U.S. Marine Corps Bravo Company, Combat Service Support Group 15, 2nd Transportation Service Battalion, Marines, at Jolan Park in the city of Fallujah, Al Anbar Province, Iraq, on Dec. 27, 2004, during Operation Al Fajr.
photo: USMC / Lance Cpl. Jeremy W. Ferguson
Birth defects, rubble still scar Iraq's Falluja
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FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - As U.S. forces pull out of Iraq, residents and officials in Falluja say they leave behind bullet-riddled homes, destroyed infrastructure and a worrying increase in birth defects and maladies in a city polluted by weapons and war chemicals. Women walk at a market in Falluja city, 50 km (31 miles) west of Baghdad December 6,...
The USS Arizona (BB-39) burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941.
photo: US NARA / Zoe,
US marks 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor
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The US Pacific Fleet in flames following the surprise attack on Pearl Harbo... A woman and children look on as soldiers are greeted by loved ones at Wheel... The United States on Wednesday marks the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor with memorial services, lowered flags and silence at the moment the history-changing assault began....
Pakistani paramilitary troops patrol a road to ensure security on the route of Shiite Muslim's Ashoura procession in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011.
photo: AP / Mohammad Sajjad
Pakistan: Militant violence down, but fear remains
read more The Boston Globe
PESHAWAR, Pakistan-Mohammed Hasib lost his older brother in a car bombing two years ago that destroyed their small shop selling woman's accessories and killed more than 100 people. He has since rebuilt and business is improving, thanks to a significant drop in militant violence in Pakistan this year. Analysts attribute the decline to a combination...
File - U.S. ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro, left, speaks with Colonel Zvika Haimovitch, head of active air defense of the Israeli army, during Shapiro's visit to the Iron Dome missile defense system deployed in the costal city of Ashkelon, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011.
photo: AP / Tsafrir Abayov
Wary U.S. uncertain of Israel's Iran plans
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration does not know Israel's intentions regarding potential military action against Iran, and the uncertainty is stoking concern in Washington, where the preferred course for now is sanctions and diplomatic pressure. Although Israel remains one of the United States' closest allies and the two countries'...
Russian police officers detain an opposition member after he and other members marched along one of the central streets in downtown Moscow, Russia, Monday, Dec. 5, 2011.
photo: AP / Ivan Sekretarev
Kremlin strikes back with jail time for protesters
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The Kremlin yesterday struck back against rising popular discontent in the aftermath of parliamentary elections, arresting and jailing opposition leaders and sending thousands of flag-waving youths to disrupt attempts by disgruntled Muscovites to rally again. Despite efforts to counter Monday's large rallies with young people screaming their love...
Chinese President Hu Jintao gestures to U.S. President Barack Obama, left, after a joint press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009.
photo: AP / Ng Han Guan
China's Central Country and U.S. Exceptionalism
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "Who would exhaust China's resources to quarrel with serpents and swine?" -Ou-yang Hsiu, Chinese Poet It is too bad that President Barack Obama's new military posturing throughout the Pacific Rim and Asia, specifically aimed at China, did not appease Republican conservatives and militant liberals....
A general view of a parliament session as Greek Prime minister speaks, about the next year's state budget, in Athens, on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011.
photo: AP / Petros Giannakouris
Greek lawmakers approve 2012 austerity budget
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ATHENS, Greece — Greece's lawmakers overwhelmingly approved next year's austerity budget early Wednesday, extending tough spending cuts that have already left Greeks struggling as the country tries to slash its vast debts and tame a severe recession. With three parties, including the majority socialists and their rival conservatives,...
One of the ways to get a handle on the current Egyptian elections is to try to compare them to...
Yet more startling in Belgian terms, he is the first French speaker since 1979 to lead the...
 
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin addresses local authorities in Novokuznetsk - about 3,000 kilometers (1,850 miles) east of Moscow on Thursday, March 12, 200
SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin has a choice between either embracing reform or tightening state control to preserve his dominance after losing support in Russia's elections and facing protests, analysts say. Putin, currently Russian...
photo: AP / RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, pool
FILE** In this Dec. 19, 2008, file photo, then Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich bites his nails as he enters a news conference to make his first substantial public comments since his arrest on federal corruption charges at a news conference in Chicago
CHICAGO The Rod Blagojevich who once challenged a prosecutor to face him like a man, the glad-handing politician who took to celebrity TV shows to profess his innocence, was nowhere to be found Wednesday as he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for...
photo: AP / M. Spencer Green
President of Côte d'Ivoire to Stand Trial in the International Criminal Court
President of Côte d'Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo who had been displaced as a result of the French intervention appeared before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Hague on December 5. With several other country leaders already facing ICC...
photo: UN / Peter Dejong
File - An Iraqi Army Soldier poses for a picture with his weapon while out on a mission in Mahmudiyah, Iraq, on March 30th, 2008.
With the date for US forces to be fully withdrawn from Iraq fast approaching, it is important to remind ourselves how we got into that long and deadly war in the first place, to recognise that this conflict is far from over, and to hold accountable...
photo: US Army / Spc. Richard Del Vecchio
A Syrian man cleans while attached to his shop is a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad with Arabic words reading: We love you, Welders homes peace on you," in Damascus, Syria, on Thursday Sept. 15, 2011.
BEIRUTSyria's president denied he ordered the deadly crackdown on a nearly nine-month-old uprising in his country, claiming he isn't in charge of the troops behind the assault. Speaking to ABC's Barbara Walters in a rare interview that aired...
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman
Police officers block a street behind a former KGB building after a rally in downtown Moscow, Monday, Dec. 5, 2011.
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has said Sunday's Russian parliamentary election was marred by fraud and has called for...
photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko
File - A U.S. MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flies over the flight line at Camp Dwyer in Helmand province, Afghanistan, May 9, 2011.
- On Sunday, Iran claimed to have taken down a US drone in Iranian airspace - not by shooting it out the sky, but with its cyber warfare team. Reports confirm that the US believes Iran is now in possession of "one of the more sensitive...
photo: USMC / Lance Cpl. Robert R. Carrasco
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File - U.S. ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro, left, speaks with Colonel Zvika Haimovitch, head of active air defense of the Israeli army, during Shapiro's visit to the Iron Dome missile defense system deployed in the costal city of Ashkelon, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011. Canada forward Sidney Crosby American investor Warren Buffett, left, and Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, right, talk during their visit to a Dairy Queen in Beijing, China, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010. U.S. Army Pfc. Shawn Williams of the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division based in Fort Wainwright, Alaska, gives the thumbs-up to members of his unit as he is evacuated after being injured by a roadside bomb, Friday, June 17, 2011, in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan.
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