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Western Europe: Is the recession over?
feature Statistics just released from the second quarter of this year show growth of 0.3 percent, though the gain was driven more by consumer spending than by corporate investment.
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International justice: An accused war criminal fights back
feature Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who is defending himself at his war crimes trial in The Hague, failed to show up on the first day of the trial.
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Germany and France: Old wars, new attitudes
feature Angela Merkel joined Nicolas Sarkozy to celebrate Armistice Day, the first time a German leader has ever participated in French ceremonies to mark the end of World War I.
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Europe: Crisis pits East against West
feature At an E.U. summit last weekend, German Chancellor Angela Merkel nixed a bailout for Eastern European countries, saying Western Europe would help on a case-by-case basis.
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United Kingdom: Blair stands by his Iraq war decision
feature Testifying last week in front of an independent government inquiry into the Iraq war, Blair insisted that he honestly believed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was a threat to the world.
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United Kingdom: Prime minister’s judgment in question
feature David Cameron's director of communications resigned due to allegations that he allowed the illegal hacking of celebrities’ telephone messages when he was editor of the tabloid News of the World.
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Europe: The failure to tackle climate change
feature There are doubts about the likely success of the U.N. summit in South Africa, which met this week to craft a replacement to the Kyoto Protocol.
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United Kingdom: Kicking God out of public services
feature An uptight atheist, one Clive Bone, is suing a city council for opening its meetings with a prayer, said Cristina Odone at The Telegraph.
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Germany: A neo-Nazi terror cell
feature Police in Germany have just discovered a group of neo-Nazi terrorists—a National Socialist Underground network—that has been commiting crimes for the past 13 years.
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Italy: The leader we loved to mock
feature Berlusconi mesmerized us, said Massimo Gramellini at La Stampa.
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Rupert Murdoch: ‘Not fit’ to lead News Corp.
feature A parliamentary committee has found the Australian tycoon “not a fit person” to run a major media empire.
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France: Sarkozy rails against illegal immigrants
feature At a campaign rally, Sarkozy threatened to close France's borders to visa-free travel.
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Norway: A sane killer is scarier than a psycho
feature It’s more comforting for our society to simply dismiss Anders Behring Breivik as crazy.
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