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The Deutsche mark lives
Apparently, as the Wall Street Journal reports , Germans still haven't quite given up on the Deutsche mark: As defunct currencies go, "die gute alte D-mark," or "the good old D-mark," as it is still affectionately called, is far...
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Wed, Jul 18 2012 9:24 AM
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Greek island wants to join Austria
German MPs provoked outrage in Greece in 2010 with a somewhat tongue-in-cheek suggestion that the coutnry shoudl consider selling off some of its islands to settle its accounts. But it appears that some residents of the island of Ikaria is looking to...
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Wed, Jul 18 2012 9:11 AM
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Assad's death spiral
0 0 1 807 4603 Foreign Policy magazine 38 10 5400 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE This may be how it ends for President Bashar al-Assad. A bomb attack struck a high-level meeting in the capital of Damascus today, killing four of the president's...
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Wed, Jul 18 2012 7:36 AM
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Morning Brief: Suicide bombing kills Syrian defense minister
Suicide bombing kills Syrian defense minister Top news: Syrian state television is reporting that a suicide bomber attacked a meeting of top security officials in Damascus on Wednesday, killing Syrian Defense Minister Daoud Rajha and his deputy Asef Shawkat...
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Wed, Jul 18 2012 5:37 AM
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Romney surrogate: "I wish this president would learn how to be an American"
Former New Hampshire governor and White House Chief of Staff-turned-campaign surrogate John Sununu was doing okay on a conference call with reporters, responding to the Obama campaign's suggestions that Mitt Romney may be guilty of a felony on his...
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Tue, Jul 17 2012 10:44 AM
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King of Spain takes a pay cut
Spain's King Juan Carlos is showing solidarity with his financially-distressed country by announcing salary cuts for the royal family today. As civil servants protest pay cuts and the government struggles to stabilize the precarious economy, the royals...
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Tue, Jul 17 2012 10:42 AM
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Piracy moves from East to West Africa
I wrote at the end of last year about increasing rates of piracy in West Africa, even as international naval cooperation has increasingly succeeded in combating the better-known pirates off the Somali coast. According to the International Maritime Bureau's...
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Tue, Jul 17 2012 9:58 AM
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Why Is Saudi Arabia Beefing Up Its Blasphemy Laws?
Some Saudi Arabian officials evidently feel that their country's blasphemy laws -- which treat transgressions as hudud or "limits," punishable by death in some cases -- are too lax. To rectify the situation, Reuters reports , the government...
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Tue, Jul 17 2012 9:21 AM
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Kadima to quit Israeli coalition
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's grand political masterstroke has officially failed. Kadima chairman and Vice Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz announced during a closed-door faction meeting Tuesday night that his party is quitting the prime minister's...
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Tue, Jul 17 2012 8:29 AM
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Morning Brief: Fighting in Syrian capital intensifies
Fighting in Syrian capital intensifies Top news: As U.N. and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan prepares to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the crisis in Syria, activists say Syrian government forces are clashing with rebel fighters in Damascus...
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Tue, Jul 17 2012 5:32 AM
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Britain’s Kenyan colonial legacy goes on trial
Over sixty years since Kenya's independence, the British high court opened the second part of a case brought by three Kenyan nationals against the British government today. The trial sheds light on Kenya's gulags , a largely forgotten dark corner...
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Mon, Jul 16 2012 2:46 PM
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Spain's low-budget Olympic bid
The optics of asking to host the Olympics at the same time you're asking for a $37 billion bailout could be better, but Madrid -- a candidate city for the 2020 games -- insists it's doable, reports the Wall Street Journal : The city's bid...
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Mon, Jul 16 2012 2:14 PM
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Russian Orthodox activists accuse Facebook of 'flirting with sodomites'
Government-funded outlet Russia Today reports that religious activists in a southern Russian city have called for national ban on Facebook after the popular social media website introduced a new icon system that represented gay couples through the use...
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Mon, Jul 16 2012 11:08 AM
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The world's most confident consumers are...
Indonesia has edged out India for the top spot in world consumer confidence in Nielsen's survey, Reuters reports : Indonesia's shift to top spot in the survey was a further sign that the country, with its big domestic economy and an expanding...
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Mon, Jul 16 2012 11:00 AM
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Is Hillary Clinton a closet Islamist? (Spoiler: No.)
0 0 1 1097 6254 Foreign Policy magazine 52 14 7337 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Word on the street here in Cairo is that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has become an Islamist overnight. It's not a joke. Clinton was greeted by...
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Mon, Jul 16 2012 6:55 AM
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