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RADIO FRANCE INTERNATIONALE: French victim of Argentine junta identified after 34 years

DailyBabel — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:11:39 +0000

The remains of a French national murdered under Argentina’s military dictatorship have been identified after 34 years. High school students helped crack the case involving Frenchman Yves Domergue and his Mexican girlfriend Cristina Cialceta who were killed in 1976.

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THE NEWS.PK: 152 Dead in Pakistani Air Crash

DailyBabel — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:11:51 +0000

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A passenger plane of a private airliner carrying 152 people crashed in a ball of flames Wednesday into densely wooded hills outside Islamabad amid heavy rain and poor visibility, killing everyone on board.

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THE KOREA TIMES: Allies show off deterrence against North Korea

DailyBabel — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:09:04 +0000

The naval and air readiness exercise being staged by the South Korean and U.S. militaries moved into high gear Monday, as the allied forces conducted unprecedented simultaneous drills in the eastern waters of the Korean Peninsula by employing advanced maritime and air assets.

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PRESS TV: Iran deplores new EU sanctions

DailyBabel — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:28:57 +0000

Iran has criticized new EU sanctions against the country over its nuclear program, saying such measures will "only complicate matters," reports Press TV. The European Union on Monday adopted new sanctions against Iran which mainly target investment in and technical assistance to Iran's refining, liquefaction and liquefied natural gas sectors.

The Word on the Street: Germany’s lofty, tragic heritage

MassimoCalderazzi — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:21:44 +0000

In July, Italy’s foremost daily, Corriere della Sera, published a short Op-Ed by the distinguished contributor, Sergio Romano, whose reputation comes from his historical essays rather than from having been an ambassador. The title was strong: “The rebirth of a great country. Ethical values of the Germans”. Romano emphasized that in 1870 the immense victory of Prussia in just two great battles of a war with France that Berlin exploited but did not start, launched a well-deserved primacy of Germany in Europe. The Reich which was born in the German space out of many kingdoms and principalities soon asserted itself as the Continent’s most important country, also its moral leader.

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NEW KOSOVA REPORT: Kosovo aims to become ‘India of Europe’

DailyBabel — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:32:26 +0000

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Kosovo, the young Balkans nation, is on the right path to become “India of Europe” in terms of information technology development and customer service call center for Europe, especially the German speaking states.

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BLOGUL LUI RANDY: Romania’s Population Woes

DailyBabel — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:19:39 +0000

According to a press release from The Institute of National Statistics, on January 1, 2010, the Romanian population was recorded as 21,462,000 inhabitants. The male population is represented by 48.7 percent and the female population is represented by 51.3 percent. Romania is the seventh country in the European Union on the largest population chart. It follows Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and Poland.

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SEMANA: Colombia and Venezuela Trade insults and Threats

DailyBabel — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:13:38 +0000

On Thursday, Caracol Radio Station told its listeners that President Alvaro Uribe would expose incontrovertible evidence of the presence of FARC and ELN commanders in Venezuela. More than one was shocked by the news. Not so much by its content—it’s a known fact that there’s guerrilla presence in Venezuelan territories—but more by the chosen moment for making it public.

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THE MOSCOW TIMES: Putin Sings With Deported Spies

DailyBabel — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:06:44 +0000

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he has sung Soviet-era patriotic songs with the 10 spies deported from the United States and knows the identities of those who betrayed them.

Putin described his meeting with the spies during a trip to Ukraine, where he also rode a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and sought to bolster Russian-Ukrainian relations.

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The Word on the Street: Let’s Renege the Idolatry of Growth

MassimoCalderazzi — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:07:09 +0000

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Like many pro-market economists, Prof. Paul Krugman has inveighed against the present attitude of the German political-economic school, which advocates austerity and fiscal sanity as the right way to confront the international crisis. Krugman too believes that budget cuts are dangerous, that they can suffocate the infant recovery. In the United States, President Obama should do the opposite of what President Hoover did: when, at the beginnings of the Thirties, the Great Depression appeared on the verge of recovery, the White House and the leaders of the financial and banking community thought it wise to stop supporting the economy through federal incentives. The disastrous result, according to Krugman, was that in the U.S. the Depression went on for the whole of the Thirties. Only the Second World War, calling to arms 10 million Americans and requiring weapons on a giant scale, solved the problem of American unemployment. Facts went that way indeed. Pearl Harbor rather than F.D.Roosevelt’s New Deal ended the Great Depression.

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