I wonder what the big deal is? Every kid in East Germany was part of the communist FDJ and had a uniform. Still one of her aides said: ‘Madam Chancellor is not amused’
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Greece has threatened high school teachers with arrest if they go ahead with a nationwide strike that would disrupt university entrance exams that start this week, the official government gazette said.
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Over half of common plants and one-third of the animals could see a serious decline, the study concluded.
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British Psychological Society to launch attack on rival profession, casting doubt on biomedical model of mental illness
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French police was looking for money that Gadhaffi paid for Sarkozy’s election. They are uncovering more and more other strange donations. Even by French standards this is big.
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French Industrial Renewal Minister Arnaud Montebourg’s decision to veto Yahoo!’s purchase of France’s popular video-sharing website Dailymotion has sparked claims of interference — and embarrassment — in France.
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Russia is going hard after western NGO’s operating within it’s borders. They claim that they are only facades of western intelligence services. They might even be right.
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In a public message marking the 46th anniversary of the overthrow of Greece’s democratically-elected government by a military junta, President Karolos Papoulias warned Greeks not to take democracy for granted.
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Ironically enough the ‘Friends of Syria’ are backing a the side that consists largely of non-Syrians. Their problem, Assad, is still holding on to power and the so called rebellion would collapse without their (clandestine) assistance.
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Researchers now claim that the MSC label is too generous. This label was set up by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Unilever. (You do not have to be a cynic to have seen this one coming from afar, but it helps.)
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