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Daily News Roundup – 28th June 2012

Europe UK economy: officially in a double dip recession The day after the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced another fiscal U-turn – this time on fuel – official statistics have today confirmed a double ...
by Tom Dunbar
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Daily News Roundup – 24 September 2012

  Europe Opposition shut out of parliament after Belarus election Belarus has elected a parliament filled with supporters of President Alexander Lukashenko, after a boycott by the two main opposition parties.  Election of...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Is Friendly synonymous with sustainable?

Surviving in the brutal world of business is tough. Keeping your business afloat in the current economic situation is tougher. Business isn’t about making friends, fighting enemies, or saving the world – business is about m...
by Yara Al Wazir
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Daily News Roundup – 5 September 2012

  Europe Heathrow row escalates following British cabinet reshuffle London Mayor Boris Johnson has called for the British Government to permanently rule out building a third runway at Heathrow airport, as ministers gave as...
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Europe

France’s Drift to the Left: A Sustainable Success?

The recent elections in France were undoubtedly a great success for The Socialist Party. Not only did their presidential candidate Francois Hollande beat the then conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, but the party also won a...
by Emily Annear
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Daily News Roundup – 13 September 2012

Asia North Korea refuses aid from South North Korea has refused to accept food aid from Seoul just weeks after Pyongyang appealed to the United Nations for aid following a series of heavy flooding. It highlights the tensions be...
by Tom Dunbar
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In my humble opinion, on Mona Eltahawy’s ‘Why do they hate us’

I too can sit from my ivory tower and tell the world that the Middle East is a dandy place to live in as a woman, but I have no right to claim that a woman only 100 miles away having her body parts ripped out in the name of god...
by Ola Abou-Khsaiwan
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DAILY NEWS ROUNDUP – 21 SEPTEMBER 2012

Africa Fresh strikes in South African mining industry Gold miners in the Anglo region of South Africa (S.A.) have begun a wildcat strike over wages. The miners are asking for a near doubling of their current wages. It was repor...
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Portugal’s Lost Generation

Portugal recently reached a staggering 15% unemployment. The very night this information became public, the Portuguese Minister for the Economy, Álvaro Santos Pereira, went on national television to justify how in one year exc...
by Miguel Costa Matos
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