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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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Belgium: We’re not small, just overly modest
feature So enough with the “inferiority complex” and “the constant feeling of being small—this self-deprecation, this modesty,” said Baudouin de Callatay in La Libre Belgique.&l
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Britain: Where nothing you say is private
feature Two sportscasters were suspended after an off-camera conversation of theirs was made public.
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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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France: Pension reform was the last straw
feature Poor Sarkozy “wanted to be the French JFK,” but now “he looks more like Louis XVI awaiting trial,” said Philippe Marlière in the South Africa Cape Times.
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Britain: Is ‘sexual grooming’ an Asian problem?
feature Two British men of Pakistani descent were jailed this month for leading a gang that raped and abused dozens of white girls.
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feature Why the British need the immigrants they disdain, and the Catholic stranglehold on education in Ireland
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Switzerland: Market woes among prostitutes
feature In the past decade, the number of registered prostitutes in Geneva, where the profession is legal and regulated, has more than quadrupled, said Carole Riegel at Le Temps.
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France: Pulling out early from Afghanistan
feature President Nicolas Sarkozy announced that French soldiers will leave Afghanistan in 2013, a few months ahead of the 2014 deadline set by NATO.
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Germany: Where police overlook neo-Nazi murderers
feature Angela Merkel held a state memorial service for the victims of the Zwickau cell and apologized to the victims' families and to the Turkish community.
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Lithuania: Where offices are awash in booze
feature At noon, just about every bureaucrat in Lithuania has a bottle in his hand, said Saulius Pocius at Vilniaus Diena.
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France: Twitter erupts in anti-Semitism
feature “The most nauseating displays of anti-Semitism” have flooded French Twitter feeds in recent weeks.
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