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How WWII codes on Twitter thwarted French vote law
Apr 22, 2012 (AFP)
Twitter users turned Sunday's French presidential election into a battle between a green Hungarian wine and a red Dutch cheese in a bid to get round tough laws ...
Euro troubles compounded by French polls
Apr 20, 2012 (UPI)
Eurozone troubles are becoming compounded by the conservatives' fading fortunes in France and dim prospects for President Nicolas Sarkozy. Latest opinion polls ...
Iraq's Sadr calls for boycott of F1 race in Bahrain
Apr 19, 2012 (AFP)
Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called for a boycott of the upcoming Formula 1 race in Bahrain over the kingdom's continued crackdown on dissidents, in a st...
Hong Kong leader-elect sees bigger role for govt
Apr 19, 2012 (AFP)
Hong Kong's incoming leader says government should play a greater role in the famously laissez-faire territory to improve social welfare and tackle inequality, ...
Outside View: A presidential challenge
Apr 18, 2012 (UPI)
With the emergence of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as the presumptive Republican nominee, the presidential campaign should enter a serious phase given ...
Clinton: Open societies will thrive more
Apr 18, 2012 (UPI)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said governments that nurture open societies are more likely to achieve their targets than governments that suppress fre...
Canberra partially lifts Myanmar sanctions
Apr 17, 2012 (UPI)
Australia inched closer to normalizing relations with Myanmar by lifting travel and financial bans on around 260 people, including the president and other senio...
Indonesia's Aceh province elects ex-rebel as governor
Apr 17, 2012 (AFP)
Indonesia's Aceh province Tuesday elected a former rebel as governor, who vowed to implement a "purer" form of sharia in what is the country's only region to pr...
Walker's World: A French vote shock?
Apr 16, 2012 (UPI)
If momentum and popular enthusiasm can transform a country's politics, then France faces the possibility of a dramatic shock in the first round of the president...
French Greens struggle as star candidate stumbles
Apr 13, 2012 (AFP)
With a well-known crusading judge as its candidate and riding high from a series of prior electoral successes, France's Greens were hoping for a breakthrough in...
Turkey arrests ex-officers over 1997 'coup'
Apr 12, 2012 (AFP)
Several high-ranking Turkish ex-officers were arrested on Monday on suspicion of being behind the 1997 forced removal of an Islamist-led government, local media...
Outside View: Something is rotten
Apr 11, 2012 (UPI)
To paraphrase Hamlet, "something is rotten in the state of America." This isn't a matter of American decline -- a question that has been overrated and exaggerat...
Santorum White House bid stirred love, loathing
Apr 10, 2012 (AFP)
Rick Santorum, who ended his race for the White House Tuesday, emerged as an improbable contender for the Republican nomination, with a faith-and-family message...
Outside View: Paying leadership price
Apr 10, 2012 (UPI)
What would you have done? Delta Company occupied a forward operating base in Wardak province in Afghanistan. During the six months it was deployed, it was stret...
Walker's World: French abstainers decide
Apr 09, 2012 (UPI)
And the winner is ... the don't cares. The new French fear is that more voters abstain than vote for either of the two main candidates in the presidential elect...
Indonesia's Aceh vote tests fragile peace
Apr 09, 2012 (AFP)
Indonesia's only province ruled by Islamic law went to the polls Monday to elect its powerful governor, testing a fragile peace following a 30-year war by separ...
Egypt army 'neutral' towards candidates for president
Apr 09, 2012 (AFP)
Egypt's ruling military is not fielding a candidate in next month's presidential election, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) chief Field Marshal Hu...
Islamic police hold sway in Indonesia's Aceh
Apr 09, 2012 (AFP)
In Indonesia's only province ruled by strict Islamic law, the sight of the "morals police" prompts women to quickly adjust their headscarves and male and female...
Islamic laws dominate polls in Indonesia's Aceh
Apr 07, 2012 (AFP)
Indonesia's only province ruled by hardline sharia laws elects its powerful governor on Monday, in polls watched by militant Muslims pushing for an Islamic gove...
China calls for lifting of all Myanmar sanctions
Apr 05, 2012 (AFP)
China on Thursday reiterated its call for all international sanctions on Myanmar to be lifted, after landmark elections in the long-closed nation gave Aung San ...
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