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How the world saw the inauguration
0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false More than 800,000 Americans packed the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Monday to listen to President Obama deliver his second inaugural address, but many more were listening around the world. Here are a few...
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An all-Europe army?
A report produced by a group of 11 E.U. foreign ministers this week on the future of Europe focused, understandably, on how greater integration - or "more Europe" - could help resolve the ongoing debt crises, through greater oversight of member...
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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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British defense secretary announces major force cuts
British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond confirmed in a statement to parliament today that the British Army will be slashed by 20,000 troops over the next decade as part of a new strategic plan called Army 2020. Nearly one-fifth of standing forces will...
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Who gets a visit from Putin?
Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn't choose his foreign visits lightly. On May 31, Putin makes his first trip abroad since being inaugurated for a third term as president on May 7, to neighboring Belarus. The visit is highly symbolic of Russia's...
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Welcome to IKEAville
Swedish furniture giant IKEA has begun work on a 26-acre self-contained neighborhood in Stratford, East London - just in time for the 2012 Olympics. The town will be called Strand East and will contain 1,200 new homes, 480,000 square feet of office space...
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Thu, Apr 04 2012 11:30 AM
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England's history of street violence
Masked youth wander the streets armed with Molotov cocktails , families flee as their homes erupt in flames, medics tend to the bloodied and bruised as armored vehicles patrol the streets -- a scene fit for a war zone. The world has been capitaved by...
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Wed, Aug 08 2011 1:08 PM
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Who’s left in Murdoch’s inner circle?
The fallout from the News of the World hacking scandal continues to swarm the News Corp. chain-of-command like a school of flesh-eating piranhas. Les Hinton, the CEO of Dow Jones and former News International executive, resigned on Friday and the picture...
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Mon, Jul 07 2011 10:02 AM
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A Sophie’s Choice for Murdoch
As far as announcements go, Rebekah Brooks's resignation today shocked just about no one. The chief executive of News International and a former editor of the disgraced and defunct News of the World had some initial support from Papa Rupert after...
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Fri, Jul 07 2011 11:54 AM
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Murdoch faces heat in U.S., Australia
There's no relief in sight for the embattled 80-year-old media tycoon. Today, British analysts grappled with a question many have called unprecedented -- what power, if any, does the Parliament have to compel Rupert Murdoch to testify? Murdoch, an...
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Thu, Jul 07 2011 8:41 AM
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How bad is the News of the World scandal for David Cameron?
The implosion of the once mighty tabloid News of the World (NoW) is nothing short of a media tsunami. And the damage doesn't end at Fleet Street -- nor even in the halls of the Murdoch News Corp. empire. It's reaching all the way to 10 Downing...
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Fri, Jul 07 2011 1:51 PM
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News of the World: The morning after in front pages
In England, the announcement yesterday that the country's most popular newspaper would cease publishing after 168 years in print -- over the fallout from a phone hacking scandal -- was just about as big of a media story as media stories get. Rupert...
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Fri, Jul 07 2011 9:07 AM
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How good is Meryl Streep’s take on Margaret Thatcher?
We're a long way from Streep's inevitable Oscar nomination for her performance as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher -- the film doesn't even open until early next year -- but it's never too early to start grading her performance...
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Fri, Jul 07 2011 8:04 AM
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Reagan love-fest in Europe
There's been a lot of love for the 40th president of the United States in Europe these past few days. In a tour organized by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation to commemorate the centennial of his birth, the man who said, "Tear down this...
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Wed, Jul 07 2011 11:27 AM
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The year’s most disturbing media story: British tabloid hacked dead girl’s phone messages
The British tabloid media is known for its hold-your-nose-and-admit-you-like-it tastelessness. But even by its own standards, the bombshell revelations that Rubert Murdoch's News of the World allegedly hacked into the phone of a murdered 13-year-old...
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