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- GREECE: Police battle protesters as strike cripples Greece

GREECE
Greek protesters clashed with police in Athens on Thursday, as the country endures its second strike against government austerity measures aimed at ending Greece’s debt crisis. Police fired tear gas to break up groups of [...]
- ISRAEL/PALESTINE: Biden "appreciates" Israeli response to settlement crisis

Israel/Palestine
US Vice-President Joe Biden told Israeli students that there must be sacrifice on both sides in the Middle East after Tuesday’s Israeli announcement that 1,600 more settler homes will be built in East Jerusalem.The declaration [...]
- RENDEZVOUS : European education fair

Thu, 2010-02-04
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Amid rising unemployment in France, the 8th annual European Education Fair in Paris hopes to find and recruit young people who are keen to work in a number of different industry sectors.
Rendezvous: European Education Fair
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- FOCUS ON FRANCE: Elections in Montpellier

Wed, 2010-03-10
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Montpellier
Fritz Geller-GrimmFocus on France goes to the southern French city of Montpellier for [...]
- ALGERIA/FRANCE: Algeria protests French far right minarets poster

Algeria/France
Algeria has lodged an official protest after French electoral authorities approved a campaign poster by the far-right Front National party that it believes is an abuse of the Algerian flag.
The poster shows a veiled woman [...]
The Daily Beast
- Iraq’s Pivotal Election
Everything is at stake as the country ramps up for its second elections under its new constitution. Despite the progress since 2005 and talk of Iraq’s fledgling democracy, violence has sparked on the eve of parliamentary elections, delayed since…
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- Gunfight at the Supreme Court
Gun-rights advocates have seen a steady stream of victories and a major increase in gun ownership in recent years and are hoping to advance their cause further this week as the Supreme Court decides whether the Second Amendment extends to state law….
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- The Fall of David Paterson
David Paterson’s involvement in one of his aide’s domestic-abuse disputes was the scandal that finally pushed him to drop his bid for election to a full term, but the New York governor had several other pressures pushing him toward the door. The Daily…
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