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- Healthcare is not a human right 31 Dec 2009 23:02 GMT
... health legislation making its way through the U.S. Congress will see far greater government involvement ... a “human right” is controversial in the United States but is commonplace elsewhere. It is enshrined ... treaties, in national constitutions from Brazil to Belgium, and is a principle of nearly every ...
- The year of the Daily News reporter 31 Dec 2009 23:02 GMT
... One late evening, early in a year that has ... A Sunday morning surprise visit from gangster Bugsy Siegle. Ten editions around the clock. Hot ... come to mind include Washington, San Francisco, Brussels, Helsinki, Paris, Ramallah, Tel Aviv, Khartoum, Moscow, Tokyo, ...
- How much longer must Africa wait? 31 Dec 2009 22:14 GMT
... visit of President Barack Obama of the United States. Now, Ghana was the first country in ... after the Congolese army had mutinied. The Belgian colonialists had foolishly taunted the Congolese soldiers by ... They looted shops and raped Belgian women. Belgium immediately flew in troop reinforcements to quell ...
- E.U. moderates stance on Jerusalem: In a boost for Israel, bloc urges talks on sharing city as capital 31 Dec 2009 21:14 GMT
... Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 9, 2009 ... negotiate the details. The statement, issued in Brussels, marks a diplomatic victory for Israel in a ... international support. In the absence of direct, U.S.-mediated peace talks, Palestinian officials have focused on ...
- The Beer Nut: My 10 favorite breweries of 2009 31 Dec 2009 17:12 GMT
... Not only was 2009 a great year for craft ... dark ale; continued with Baby Tree (a Belgian quad brewed with dried plums); Confounded Mr. Sisyphus (not sure of the ...
- Report Predicts Offshore Wind Boom 31 Dec 2009 15:51 GMT
... projects in unlikelier countries - Germany and Belgium.” The report predicts that in the next ... markets. Then, from 2014 to 2020, the United States, China and Korea will follow. “Europe's aggressiveness ...
- What you might expect in 2010 31 Dec 2009 13:53 GMT
... -- Once again, the Financial Times' top pundits have ... limelight. If Mr Van Rompuy, the former Belgian prime minister, keeps writing haiku on how ... to repatriate powers over social policy from Brussels. That will require lengthy and unpopular negotiations, ...
- Reign of Spain 31 Dec 2009 13:51 GMT
... From 1 January Spain takes the helm of the EU ... chaired by Herman Van Rompuy, the former Belgian prime minister who is now President of the ... May), Latin America and Caribbean (18-19 May), United States (25 May), and Egypt (5 June). In ...
- There is hope for a brighter Ireland 31 Dec 2009 13:36 GMT
... HOW does one sum up a decade in so ... was working in the European Parliament in Brussels that day and try as I might ... of war". This "modern apocalypse" was "an American injury but a universally shared wound", he ...
- Galloway: End the Brutal Siege on Gaza 31 Dec 2009 12:51 GMT
... pressure on Israel and, in particular, the United States," Galloway says. (Reuters Photo) In an ... London on December 6, then passing through Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria, and ... people of Britain, the United States of America, and European countries. The poorer people are. ...
- Cem Yýlmaz's 'Yahþi Batý' premieres 31 Dec 2009 12:35 GMT
... and Mehmet Polat, the film also features guest stars, including Süleyman Turan, Yýlmaz Köksal, Uður ... story of two Ottomans sent to the United States in 1800 by the sultan, will be ... be simultaneously released in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, the United Kingdom and ...
- TR 0103 Luxembourg / az/jk 31 Dec 2009 12:15 GMT
... green valley. The tiny nation that borders Belgium, Germany and France has a quaintly small ... and is the eighth-largest lender to the United States. The next morning, I make my way ... keep the city from sinking. But, of course, that’s ridiculous. Any private banker could tell ...
- Scanners to be used at Amsterdam airport 31 Dec 2009 12:02 GMT
... "It would not be exaggerating to say the world ... their routine use is still pending in Brussels. Until all radio wave scanners are in ... been allowed to board that plane for America," Obama said. The suspect's father had warned ...
- If Haiku Herman's the EU pointman, what's the point? 31 Dec 2009 10:41 GMT
... Herman van Rompuy is renowned for his love of ... call: Haiku Herman, that's who. Okay... Barack Obama, Dimitry Medvedev and Hu Jintao, I can ... a balding, bespectacled, mild-mannered 62-year-old centre-right former Belgian Prime Minister with a perpetually surprised look ...
- What was the most covered-up story of 2009? 31 Dec 2009 09:32 GMT
... Conventional wisdom holds that Army Maj. Nidal Malik ... key front for Islamic terrorism in the United States. Yet despite new revelations that CAIR is ... corporate extortion in which EU bureaucrats in Brussels are manipulated into paying hundreds of millions ...
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