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Analysis
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Saturday, 12 March, 2011
By Glenn Chapman - Innovators and trendsetters were heading to Texas for a technology festival renowned as a springboard for Web sensations such as Twitter and Foursquare. Startups featuring new ways to mix mobile devices with social networking, shopping, geo-location, or augmented reality will be v
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Saturday, 12 March, 2011
By Farhad Peikar - As experts in Paris pondered what to do with Afghanistan’s shattered Buddhist statues, the locals in a snow-covered valley thousands of kilometres away had their own opinions. Exactly 10 years after the giant statues in the central province of Bamiyan were dynamited by the Taliban
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Saturday, 12 March, 2011
By Grit Buettner - In Germany’s winter, engineers are developing tiny electric power plants that can coax power for lamps and mobile-phone rechargers from dreamy, slow-flowing rivers. There is frost in the fields as the experts clad in thick winter anoraks and bobble-hats squat alongside the Warnow
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Wednesday, 9 March, 2011
By Mathieu Rabechault -
A proposed no-fly zone over Libya would have numerous logistical obstacles and offers no guarantee of achieving the goal of halting government attacks, US officials and analysts say. Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned last week that enforc
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Wednesday, 9 March, 2011
By Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck -
A wave of overseas acquisitions of European assets has triggered a call in the European Union for foreign bids to be vetted, but opposition to such a move is strong and new controls will be hard to sell. Many EU diplomats and senior officials have dismissed a writ
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Wednesday, 9 March, 2011
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FOR three days only the bigwigs of Europe’s commercial property industry will hold court this week on the French Riviera to debate how far the stricken asset class has rebounded from recession, and the hurdles that remain. This year’s MIPIM (Marche International des Professio
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Wednesday, 9 March, 2011
By Sanjeev Miglani -
A year ago, India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was tearing itself apart after a second successive general election defeat, its dream of leading India’s rise to the global centre stage in tatters. But with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Congress-led coalition
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Wednesday, 9 March, 2011
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A threat by Flemish separatists to withdraw from talks on forming a new Belgian government has increased the prospects of a coalition being formed as early as May. Political parties in Belgium have been trying to form a coalition for 268 days, making it th
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Wednesday, 9 March, 2011
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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen had her political rivals on the run yesterday after a poll showed she could beat any of the top likely candidates in a first-round presidential election. The survey by pollster Harris Interactive published in Le Parisien newspaper showed
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Tuesday, 8 March, 2011
By Laura Villena -
Go through your wallet some day and you might see a surprise. Along with Queen Elizabeth on a British pound, George Washington on the US dollar or Jewish leaders on the Israeli shekel, you might see something new.
It could be “Free Palestine” engrained across those familiar ima
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