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Analysis
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Wednesday, 16 May, 2012
By John Irish -
PRESIDENT Francois Hollande faces a diplomatic test three days into his term when he discusses an early exit for French troops in Afghanistan with US President Barack Obama and Nato allies in his first outing on the world stage.
France's first Socialist leader in 17 years is lit
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Wednesday, 16 May, 2012
By Andrew Beatty -
IF you are one of the almost one billion people who use Facebook, you are unlikely to notice any major changes when you sign in this week. Facebook's entry to the stock market — expected on Friday — will be a timeline-shaking corporate event, but users may find nothing new to
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Wednesday, 16 May, 2012
By Lajla Veselica -
THERE are thousands of players like Mario Cizmek in football, professionals who never fulfilled their early promise yet whose passion for the game takes them to unfashionable clubs to earn a living from the game they love.
Cizmek represented his native Croatia at under-20 an
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Wednesday, 16 May, 2012
By Deepak Adhikari -
INEXPERIENCED pilots, poor management and ineffective rules are endangering air travellers' lives in Nepal, aviation experts warned after the latest in a series of fatal accidents. The comments came after the crash of an Agni Air plane on Monday, which killed 13 Indians and
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Wednesday, 16 May, 2012
By Matthew Collin -
THE last week's floods that killed five people in the Georgian capital exposed a side of the city not shown in the slick tourist ads — the ramshackle slums that are home to Tbilisi's poorest.
A mother and her two young children were among those who died after heavy rains sen
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Wednesday, 16 May, 2012
By Hannah McNeish -
HEAVY rains coming soon in Sudan and South Sudan will add to the woes of civilians after a border conflict and civil war forced thousands to flee their homes, aid agencies warned yesterday.
"We're on the path from crisis to catastrophe," said Johnson Byamukama of Oxfam in So
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Wednesday, 16 May, 2012
By Bryan McManus -
GREECE will have to hold fresh elections after talks on forming a new government broke up yesterday without agreement, socialist Pasok party leader Evangelos Venizelos said.
"We are going again towards elections, in a few days, under very bad conditions," Venizelos said, whil
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Tuesday, 15 May, 2012
By Jean-Baptiste Piggin -
CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel's problems mounted as her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) suffered a drubbing in a state-assembly election in the populous state of North Rhine Westphalia.
Her party picked up about 26 per cent of the vote, according to projections by ARD and ZD
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Tuesday, 15 May, 2012
By Alan Wheatley -
STUDENTS are protesting on Barcelona's elegant boulevards, public-sector wages are being cut for the second time in three years and resentment is growing against the central government and beneficiaries of bank bailouts.
Such is the daily fallout from the euro zone's debt cri
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Tuesday, 15 May, 2012
By Philip Pullella -
HER family name means "little severe one", and Paola Severino (pictured) means to live up to it in her crusade against judicial inefficiency which is helping to stifle Italy's chronically weak economy.
Seemingly endless legal delays such as in settling commercial disputes a
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