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Daily News Roundup – 19 September 2012

  North America Chicago teacher strike ends after union vote School teachers in Chicago, the USA’s third-largest school district, have voted to suspend a strike, ending a seven-day action that affected more than 350,000 ...
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Daily News Roundup – 3 July 2012

Europe Barclays CEO Bob Diamond resigns The boss of Barclays plc, Bob Diamond, has resigned from the bank with immediate effect less than a week after Barclays was fined for trying to manipulate inter-bank lending rates.  He b...
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Daily News Roundup – 27 August 2012

  Europe German leaders dismiss call for Greek euro exit Leading figures in Germany’s centre-right government have criticised a conservative politician for suggesting that Greece will soon have to leave the eurozone.  C...
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Daily News Roundup – 18 July 2012

  Europe Germany ordered to boosts benefits to asylum seekers Germany’s Constitutional Court has ordered the country’s government to pay a 50% rise in benefits to asylum seekers, who have for two decades received less ...
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Daily News Roundup – 10 September 2012

  Europe George Soros calls for Germany to “lead or leave the euro” International financier George Soros, writing in Monday’s New York Review of Books, has called for Germany to “lead or leave the euro”.  The co...
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Daily News Roundup – 9 July 2012

Europe 8.9% drop in UK university applications University applications from UK students for courses starting in the autumn have fallen by 8.9% on last year, according to figures from the universities and colleges admissions ser...
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Islamist leader executed for war crimes in Bangladesh

Dhaka: Bangladesh prison authorities executed a top Islamist leader on Saturday night for committing crimes against humanity during the country’s 1971 liberation war, after he refused to seek presidential clemency. The 62...
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Daily News Roundup – 11 September 2012

  Europe Spanish Prime Minister rejects bailout conditions Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, speaking in his first television interview since taking office, has said he will not accept outside conditions over a possi...
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With An Eye On China’s Future, Mainlanders Brave Arrest To Support Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution

Mainland Chinese activists are skirting censorship and risking arrest to publicly declare their support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. 
by I-fan Lin
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