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Engraved at the entrance of the Parliament building in Canada’s capital city of Ottawa are the following words: “Where there is no vision, people perish.” One year after Barack Obama’s ascendancy to the presidency of the United States, the question on...
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MEPs are awaiting next week's entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty with impatience as the new institutional rules give the EU assembly a say in an array of new areas, including the EU's money-eating farm policy and its long-term budget...The rise in...
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Top appointments expose undemocratic nature of EU' Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:07:58 GMT Font size : Former Labour cabinet member and distinguished political activist Tony Benn has challenged Prime Minister Gordon Brown's defense of the European Union's new...
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Ukraine crisis will be first test for Lady Ashton Lady Ashton will make her debut as foreign policy high representative on 1 December. Photograph: Rex Features Europe and Russia are embroiled in an escalating contest over Ukraine ‑ its direction, its...
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Noam Chomsky is the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar. A philosopher of language and political campaigner of towering academic reputation, who as good as invented modern linguistics, he is entertained by presidents,...
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India's Path Was Paved by Soviet Fall Published: November 19, 2009 With all the attention being paid this month to the fall of the Berlin Wall, I’ve found myself thinking of how much India has changed over the last 20 years. Most of the media coverage...
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I don't doubt that the Israeli government [seeks] the well-being and security of Israeli society, and it [knows] that the only way to achieve that is negotiations," Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. "Logically,...
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Whereas many of the Chinese bases are known, this is not the case in Pakistan and India, where we have found no credible information that identifies permanent nuclear weapons storage locations," they said. "Pakistan's nuclear weapons are not believed...
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We sip iced lattes and discuss how, not long ago, they tried to destroy Western civilisation. They have different backgrounds: one is a Yorkshire girl with Hindu parents, another is a Northern boy whose father was a Conservative ultra-Thatcherite. Yet...
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The Senate is about to embark on what could be the showdown of the year as top Democrats work to push through sweeping health care legislation. The legislative chamber, however, is no stranger to history-changing debate. Lawmakers need to look no further...
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