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<title>Washington &apos;power couple&apos; takes on race</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180109747</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 19:27 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Maine, by a Jewish father and an Irish Protestant mother, William Cohen learned early on  ...  else - suggest that the United States government is involved in spreading AIDS in the  ...  Michael Wenger of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington and former  ...
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<title>A history of humanitarianism</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180106676</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 18:56 GMT</pubDate>
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...  later given to the care of an Irish charity. You could see the chaos, hear  ...  her relief work has been done for political consumption or Washington prominence. On the contrary,  ...  had to do it. I never took government money. It was my own, and I  ...
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<title>&apos;DUP pushing executive towards crisis,&apos; says Adams</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180105501</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 18:53 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the DUP of pushing the Norths power-sharing government toward crisis. The West Belfast MP claimed  ...  was the root cause of the current political stalemate. The Stormont Executive has not met  ...  devolution of policing and justice and an Irish language act. Mr Adams today laid the  ...
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<title>IPPs will be exempted from windfall levy if ...</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180104576</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 18:38 GMT</pubDate>
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...  In a statement issued yesterday, Second Finance Minister Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop said any  ...  IPP bondholders. The IPPs had approached the government and indicated their willingness to renegotiate the  ...  countries such as the United States, Northern Ireland, the Philippines and Indonesia. &quot;However, our renegotiations  ...
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<title>Bans up</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180103695</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 18:35 GMT</pubDate>
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...  a local election in March, the state government said this year&amp;rsquo;s Oktoberfest could be as  ...  although cigarette ladies are a fixture at political parties&amp;rsquo; conventions. Germany has conducted no large-scale  ...  are still cheaper than in Britain and Ireland. The share of the adult population that  ...
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<title>Vote early, vote often</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180103691</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 18:35 GMT</pubDate>
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...  The French president mollifies his tone towards Ireland DAYS before his visit to Dublin on  ...  salvage the European Union&amp;rsquo;s Lisbon treaty. The Irish government was dismayed when the French president  ...  If the economic outlook is grim, the political outlook is equally problematic. A second referendum  ...
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<title>Gay marriage: Tying or not</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180103365</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 18:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  in Thunder Bay, Ontario, by a Unitarian minister. In attendance were their dog and the  ...  with the minister&apos;s husband and houseguest from Ireland as witnesses. &quot;It wasn&apos;t meant to be a political statement,&quot; said Groger, a management analyst with  ...
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<title>The moment of truth</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180102006</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 18:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  whose consequences are as much social and political as spiritual; and it has been assumed  ...  of British rule over the south of Ireland, it was hard for Catholics to hold  ...  bandwagon; the BJP still won the latest elections. The contest between theocratic politics and a  ...
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<title>&apos;Funding issue on cervical vaccine&apos;</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180101298</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 18:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Health Minister Mary Harney has said the Government will have to consider whether it currently  ...  O&apos;Flanagan said while well over 90% of Irish women would be immune from chickenpox by  ...  age, the proportion of people coming to Ireland from tropical countries might not have the  ...
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<title>A revealing visit</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180099679</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 18:13 GMT</pubDate>
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...  GORDON BROWN is not a naturally emotive politician. That habitual reserve made this week&amp;rsquo;s visit  ...  economic road map for peace&amp;rdquo;, citing Northern Ireland as a place where prosperity had discouraged  ...  with both the Americans and the Iraqi government. But his trip to Israel was in  ...
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<title>A dream deferred</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180099625</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 18:13 GMT</pubDate>
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...  but its clean and has a better selection and cheaper prices than the Korean-owned grocery  ...  all the countries of the Caribbean, their politics, their foods, and their vernaculars. Hes a  ...  worse in America than they were in Ireland. Were becoming like that. I find myself  ...
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<title>Sarkozy&apos;s progress</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180099230</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 18:12 GMT</pubDate>
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...  disappointment. Yet in recent weeks Mr Sarkozy&apos;s government has managed to pass a string of  ...  experiencing property busts, such as Spain and Ireland, are falling off a cliff. France is  ...  Liberalisation in Germany is blocked by coalition politics; for different reasons, the leaders of Spain  ...
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<title>DUP is failing to engage: Adams</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180099219</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 18:12 GMT</pubDate>
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...  party in a bid to avoid a political crisis at Stormont. The Sinn Fin leader  ...  the transfer of policing and justice and Irish Language issues. He said they concerned a  ...  so I think the people of Northern Ireland will reach their own conclusions as to  ...
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<title>UK: M&amp;S cuts its plastic bag handout by astonishing 80% after ban</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180097879</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 18:11 GMT</pubDate>
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...  M&amp;S scheme has the backing of all political parties and has given a huge boost  ...  Daily Mails Banish the Bags campaign. The Government has given the rest of the High  ...  on the issue. Tesco also charges in Ireland - which introduced a ban on free  ...
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<title>For the record 24 July</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180093556</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 17:39 GMT</pubDate>
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...  news from a highly innovative company,&quot; said Minister for Foreign Affairs, Michel Martin, in a  ...  for IDA in its efforts to sell Ireland as an investment location for IT companies.  ...  had agreed a deal with the UK government and six major internet service providers to  ...
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