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Economic Growth in Africa Must Lead with Equitable Development for all

Africa has undoubtedly seen impressive economic growth over the past decade. They have put to shame predictions of a ‘hopeless’ continent; a comment The Economist magazine subsequently apologized for last year. More aptly, ...
by Ruth Nyambura
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Vomiting Values, or What Is European?

The European Union (EU) has expanded quickly over the last decade, with its latest enlargement welcoming Bulgaria and Romania in 2007. The EU’s enlargement process however, is not as straightforward as it would appear nor doe...
by Gilles Pittoors
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Russia

The CUTting-edge of Russian Universities

The Ministry of Education has come up with fifty criteria evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of  Russian universities in order to unite the more successful universities with the “weak” ones, cutting the number of the ...
by Ekaterina Mordvinova
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Daily News Roundup – 15 August 2012

  Europe Standard Chartered settles with New York regulator over Iran deals British bank Standard Chartered has agreed a $340m (£217m) settlement with the New York State Department of Financial Services over its recent ac...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Netherlands

Pro-austerity VVD’s victory in Dutch elections hides the real winners of last night’s poll – a social democratic Europe

With over 96% of votes counted, the result of yesterday’s Dutch election sees Mark Rutte, leader of the right-wing Liberals (VVD), set to stay as Prime Minister. But the closely fought election left his party with only two mo...
by Gareth Lewis
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Daily News Roundup – 22nd June 2012

Europe Miliband to act against migrant workers Ed Miliband, leader of Britain’s Labour Party, has promised today to deter firms from employing foreign workers should he win a general election.  He has said Labour “got it w...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Daily News Roundup – 24 July 2012

  Europe Germany’s AAA credit rating on negative watch The credit ratings agency Moody’s has changed its outlook for Germany’s AAA credit rating to negative, the first step towards a possible downgrade.  Moody’s s...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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DAILY NEWS ROUNDUP – 24 AUGUST 2012

Europe Anders Brevik considered sane and sentenced A unanimous decision by five judges has declared Anders Breivik sane after his attacks on a Christian youth camp in July 2011, which left 77 people dead and more than 240 wound...
by Tom Dunbar
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Daily News Roundup – 17 October 2012

  Europe Radovan Karadzic denies Bosnian war crimes Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, beginning his defence against charges of war crimes in the Hague yesterday, has said he should be rewarded for “reducing su...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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