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Italy: Americans are amateurs at protesting
feature It seems the “culture of the Wild West” mixes poorly with civil protest, said Giampiero Gramaglia at Il Fatto Quotidiano.
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United Kingdom: Battle of the Russian tycoons
feature Former media tycoon Boris Berezovsky lost his $5 billion lawsuit oil magnate Roman Abramovich.
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France: Coming to grips with a homegrown jihadist
feature Was the young Muslim Frenchman who killed seven people a terrorist?
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Norway: Not insane, but fully culpable
feature Finding Anders Behring Breivik sane was “a good and right decision.”
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United Kingdom: Prince Harry does Vegas
feature Photos are all over the Internet of Prince Harry in a Las Vegas hotel room, naked after a game of strip pool.
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United Kingdom: Cameron’s not-so-nice welfare cuts
feature Despite Cameron’s promise that he would never “hurt disabled children,” most of them will lose benefits worth $42 a week, said Polly Toynbee at The Guardian.
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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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France: The real winner is Marine Le Pen
feature The far-right National Front has arrived in the mainstream.
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Spain: A battered nation takes to the streets
feature After Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced labor reforms making it easier to fire people, unions called a general strike and protests.
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Diamond Jubilee: The British fete their queen
feature To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation, Britain threw the world’s largest river pageant.
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Holy See: Cardinals turn on one another
feature The “Vatileaks” scandal has exposed the Vatican as a true “nest of vipers.”
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Germany: Is Günter Grass an anti-Semite?
feature Germany’s most famous living writer has “triggered a furious row with a poem criticizing Israel.”
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