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United Kingdom: A brash Conservative to lead London
feature What a breath of fresh air for smoggy London, said Kwasi Kwarteng in The Guardian. Boris Johnson, an outspoken
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Smoking in public: Who else is ready to quit?
feature This should be interesting, said Sevim Song
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Why are the police so cozy with Scientology?
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Austria: The monster who kept his daughter in a dungeon
feature The police are calling it the
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Don’t tell the Belgians, but we’re invading
feature Is it time for the Netherlands to annex Belgium?
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Britain: A tussle with Russia over Shakespeare—and spies
feature The Russians are up in arms over a staid British cultural center that promotes Shakespeare, said Ben Macintyre in the London Times. The British Council is hardly a threatening institution. Founded in the 1930s to promote “British ideas about education, sc
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The Diana inquest: Was it worth all the effort?
feature What a waste of time and money, said the London Daily Telegraph in an editorial. The inquest into the deaths of Diana, princess of Wales, and her companion, Dodi Fayed, took six months and cost British taxpayers upwards of $20 million. As for why the inqu
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Sorry, Hillary, but you’re not our hero
feature Hillary Clinton claims to have been instrumental in bringing peace to Northern Ireland. “I know. Don’t laugh,” said Lindy McDowell in the Belfast Telegraph. We’ve all been amazed at her sheer gall. Lord Trimble, who was leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
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Complicit in the horrors of the Nazis
feature Austrians are guilty of selective amnesia, said Egon Schwarz in the Zurich, Switzerland, Neue Z
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Italy: An iconic city is left to rot
feature Over the past few months, Naples has gradually disappeared under piles of garbage rotting away in the searing heat.
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France: When to use nuclear weapons
feature President Nicolas Sarkozy will not let anyone forget that France is a nuclear power, said Paris
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Berlusconi and Sarkozy: Will the dynamic duo change Europe?
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Soccer hooligans rage against the police
feature Italian soccer fans are
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Behind the crackdown on the Roma
feature Italians have finally lost patience with the half-million migrants from Romania who now live among them, said Julius M
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