Sarkozy’s attempts to reduce the number of civil servants and reform the French retirement system are opposed by the unions. Is this the fate that is awaiting America? ‘) ; } // ]]> By Edward Cody Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, March 22, 2010; A07 PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservative coalition suffered an embarrassing […]
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China’s Ukrainian Moves 22 March 2010 By Florent Parmentier Much of the discussion surrounding Viktor Yanukovych’s victory in Ukraine’s presidential election has been focused on whether his policies will be oriented more toward the European Union or Russia. Of course, significant changes are expected in foreign policy with the end of the Western-leaning policies of
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OPINION MARCH 22, 2010 By JOHN MCCAIN The mood in Baghdad is tense these days. Groups of Iraqis are struggling for control of the country. They are harshly denouncing their rivals. Passions are flaring, and the anger is visceral. But unlike recent years, this Iraqi fight for power is waged not through murder and oppression
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By RACHEL PANNETT CANBERRA—Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd warned China “the world will be watching” how it conducts the trial of four Rio Tinto Ltd. executives, in a case that has sent chills through foreign businesses. The trial, which opens Monday in Shanghai, comes as foreign firms are saying their relationships with China are suffering
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EUROPE NEWS MARCH 19, 2010 Putin Says Russia Will Help Tehran Launch a Reactor, a Blow to U.S. Efforts to Pressure Tehran; Quick Rebuke From U.S. By JAY SOLOMON And RICHARD BOUDREAUX MOSCOW—Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia will help Iran launch its first nuclear power plant this summer, delivering a diplomatic slap
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On December 30, in one of the deadliest attacks in CIA history, an Al Qaeda double agent schemed his way onto a U.S. base in Afghanistan and blew himself into the next life taking seven Americans with him. How could this have happened? Agency veteran, Robert Baer explains, offering searing new details about the attack
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MARCH 16, 2010 By BRET STEPHENS I once got an angry letter from Baruch Goldstein’s father. Goldstein, remember, was an Israeli settler who in 1994 entered the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and gunned down 29 Muslim worshippers. A decade later, I wrote a column for the Jerusalem Post in which I described Goldstein
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MARCH 11, 2010 President Obama’s world apology tour is now the stuff of legend, but even his worst critics probably didn’t expect this week’s footnote involving Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi. P.J. Crowley, the State Department spokesman and earthy veteran of the Clinton White House, said this on Tuesday: “I understand my personal comments were perceived as
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March 4, 2010 10:07 AM HUDSON NEW YORK by Paul Belien The Wilders Surge Yesterday’s local elections in the Netherlands resulted in a victory for the Freedom Party (PVV) of opposition leader Geert Wilders. On June 9th the Dutch will again be called to the voting booths for the general elections. Yesterday’s outcome reinforces the
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Soros: China Must Be Part Of The New World Order http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOjckJWqb0A&feature=player_embedded#
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